Identification of Yield-Limiting Nutrients for Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) Yield, Nutrient Uptake and Use Efficiency on Vertisols of Raya Kobo District, Northeastern Ethiopia

Table 7

Nutrient uptake of sorghum as influenced by nutrient omission.

Treatments	Total N uptake (kg ha^−1)	Total P uptake (kg ha^−1)
Control	79.4^c	6.7^c
PSZnB (−N)	83.2^c	7.8^c
NSZnB (−P)	136.9^b	14.0^a
NPSZnB(−K)	164.0^ab	12.9^ab
NPZnB (−S)	154.5^ab	13.8^a
NPSZn (−B)	174.8^a	12.2^ab
NPSB (−Zn)	164.5^ab	15.5^a
NPS (−ZnB)	138.4^b	14.3^a
RNP	139.7^b	10.7^abc
NPKSZnB	138.1^b	15.3^a
CV (%)	7.8	10.7

N.B: means in the columns that are denoted by the same letter do not differ substantially at .