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Original Articles

Determination of Soil Available Phosphorus using the Olsen and Mehlich 3 Methods for Greek Soils Having Variable Amounts of Calcium Carbonate

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Pages 2207-2214 | Received 30 Apr 2013, Accepted 10 Jan 2014, Published online: 19 Aug 2014

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