Robinson, J.B.D.Semb, G.2015-06-292015-06-291969East African Agricultural And Forestry Journal, 34 (3), p. 350-3700012-8325http://localhost:8080/dspace/handle/0/1153Working in East Africa Birch [1, 2, 3. 4, 5, 6] has shown that drying soil samples prior to re-moistening them markedly increases the mineralization of natural nitrogen during subsequent incubation, He found that for a particular soil the amount of nitrogen mineralized was a direct function of the logarithm of the length of time that the soil was dry before wetting and incubation, and of the temperature of the soil during the dry period,enhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Journal ContributionNitrogenFlushingArable soilsIncubation of a disease