Sulfur and cadmium combinations related to the morphogenetic, metabolic and productive parameters of tanzania guineagrass

• Grant number: 12/12894-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: June 01, 2013
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Pastures and Forage Crops
• Principal Investigator: Francisco Antonio Monteiro
• Grantee: Flávio Henrique Silveira Rabêlo
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Major pasturelands in Brazil are degraded as a consequence of inadequate management and lack of nutrient applications (among them is sulfur). However, the supply of nutrients by phosphate fertilizers and by-products, sometimes ilegaly applied as sewage sludge, has contributed to include heavy metals in these areas (particularly cadmium) that can change plant growth. The objective is to evaluate morphogenetic, metabolic and productive changes and chemical elements concentrations in tanzania guineagrass, related to the supply of sulfur and cadmium rates in the nutrient solution. The hypothesis is that the sulfur supply to plants receiving cadmium promotes significant changes in tanzania guineagrass development and chemical composition, which result in higher tolerance to cadmium stress. An experiment will be carried out in a greenhouse with tanzania guineagrass grown in pots containing ground quartz and receiving nutrient solution with combinations of sulfur and cadmium. Five sulfur rates (0.1; 1.0; 1.9; 2.8 and 3.7 mmol L-1) and five cadmium rates (0.0; 0.5; 1.0; 1.5 and 2.0 mmol L-1) will be studied in a fractionated 52 fatorial, with 13 combinations. The experimental design will be a randomized block, with six replications. The determinations in the two plant growth periods will be: leaf and tiller productions, leaf appearance rate, phylocron, leaf area, aboveground and roots dry matter, roots length and surface, mineral composition, cystein, meitonin, reduced glutation, phytochelatin and dismutase superoxyd. The results will be studied through the analysis of variance followed by regression analysis (polynomial of first and/or second degree models), by using the SAS procedures.

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RABELO, FLAVIO HENRIQUE SILVEIRA; VANGRONSVELD, JACO; BAKER, ALAN J. M.; VAN DER ENT, ANTONY; ALLEONI, LUIS REYNALDO FERRACCIU. Are Grasses Really Useful for the Phytoremediation of Potentially Toxic Trace Elements? A Review. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, v. 12, NOV 24 2021. (14/18735-0, 12/11859-0, 15/21562-2, 18/07190-3, 17/11299-8, 12/12894-3, 14/16731-7)

SILVEIRA RABELO, FLAVIO HENRIQUE; AZEVEDO, RICARDO ANTUNES; MONTEIRO, FRANCISCO ANTONIO. Proper supply of S increases GSH synthesis in the establishment and reduces tiller mortality during the regrowth of Tanzania guinea grass used for Cd phytoextraction. Journal of Soils and Sediments, v. 17, n. 5, p. 1427-1436, MAY 2017. (12/11859-0, 12/12894-3)

SILVEIRA RABELO, FLAVIO HENRIQUE; AZEVEDO, RICARDO ANTUNES; MONTEIRO, FRANCISCO ANTONIO. The Proper Supply of S Increases Amino Acid Synthesis and Antioxidant Enzyme Activity in Tanzania Guinea Grass Used for Cd Phytoextraction. WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION, v. 228, n. 10, OCT 2017. (12/11859-0, 12/12894-3)

RABELO, FLAVIO HENRIQUE SILVEIRA; LAVRES, JOSE; RAMIRES, THIAGO GENTIL; ALLEONI, LUIS REYNALDO FERRACCIU. Diagnosis and recommendation integrated system and nutritional balance index reveal Cd-induced nutritional disorders in Panicum maximum assayed for Cd phytoextraction. BIOREMEDIATION JOURNAL, v. 24, n. 4, p. 265-282, NOV 5 2020. (14/18735-0, 15/21562-2, 12/12894-3, 17/11299-8, 14/16731-7, 12/11859-0, 18/07190-3)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

RABÊLO, Flávio Henrique Silveira. Sulfur in mitigating the toxic effects of cadmium in Tanzania guineagrass. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) Piracicaba.