Water-soluble nutrients in aerial plant parts of peanut and white oat as affected by lime and gypsum application

• Main Authors: Rúbia Renata Marques, Carlos Alexandre Costa Crusciol, Gustavo Spadotti Amaral Castro, Lucas Perim
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 2011-04-01
• Series: Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo
• Subjects: resíduos de plantas; acidez; mobilidade de nutientes
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832011000200020&lng=en&tlng=en

Lime and gypsum influence nutrient availability and uptake, as well as the content of organic acids in the aerial plant parts. These changes, quantified by plant analysis of soluble nutrients, may potentiate the effect of soil amendment, ensuring the sustainability of the no-tillage system. In this sense the effect of lime and gypsum surface application on the content of water-soluble nutrients in peanut and oat residues was evaluated. The experiment was conducted on an Oxisol in Botucatu (SP) in the growing seasons 2004/2005 and 2005/2006. It was arranged in a randomized block design in split plots with four replications, where lime rates represented the plots and presence or absence of gypsum application the subplots. Peanut was grown in summer and white oat in the winter in the entire experimental area. Gypsum applied to peanut increased soluble Ca only in the first season, due to the short period between product application and determination of soluble nutrient contents in the plant extract. Liming of peanut and oat increased soluble Ca, Mg, K contents, did not alter Cu content and reduced Zn, Mn and Fe contents in both years of cultivation. Gypsum on the other hand reduced the electrical conductivity of peanut (2004/2005 and 2005/2006) and white oat (2004/2005).