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Rice straw, buried in a rice-field during the dry season decomposed at a rate of 0.0075 day-1. Seventy five percent of the biomass, 70 percent carbon, 50 percent nitrogen and 30 percent phosphorus remained after 139 days of decomposition. Rice straw decomposition furnished 33% N and 8% P of the total nitrogen and phosphorus provided by man.
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Fores, E., Menendez, M. & Comin, F.A. Rice straw decomposition in rice-field soil. Plant Soil 109, 145–146 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02197596
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