“…Several extractants used for soil B extraction have been employed over time for example, hot water for plant-available B (Berger & Truog, 1939;Parker & Gardner, 1981;Mahler et al, 1984;Rahmatullah et al, 1999), 0.05 M HCl for plant-available B (Ponnamperuma et al, 1981), 0.018 M CaCl 2 for non-specifically adsorbed/readily soluble B on soil surfaces (Iyenger et al, 1981;Aitken & McCallum, 1988;Spouncer et al, 1992;Hou et al, 1996;Rahmatullah et al, 1999), 1 M NH 4 OAc for multi-element extraction (Gupta & Stewart, 1975;Chaudhary & Shukla, 2004), 0.25 M sorbitol-DTPA for bioavailable B (Goldberg, 1997;Miller et al, 2000;Gloldberg et al,, 2002;Shiffler et al, 2005), 0.05 M mannitol prepared in 0.01 M CaCl 2 for B in soil solution and its nonspecifically adsorbed forms to assess regenerative power of soil for B (Cartwright et al, 1983;Aitken et al, 1987;Jin et al, 1988;Rahmatullah et al, 1999;Vaughan & Howe, 1994), and 0.005 M AB-DTPA for multi-element extraction (Gestring & Soltanpour, 1984Matsi et al, 2000).…”