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| Author(s): |
Carlos Eduardo Faroni
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2005-01-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Paulo Cesar Ocheuze Trivelin;
Cassio Hamilton Abreu Junior;
Jairo Antonio Mazza
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| Advisor: | Paulo Cesar Ocheuze Trivelin |
| Abstract | |
Knowledge about of sugarcane root growth dynamic, as well as the root system architecture of sugarcane crop allows understanding better the relationships between the plant and its environment. This knowledge is important to define the crop management with most efficiency and using sustainable practices, to increasing both sugarcane crop yield and longevity. The aim of this study was to evaluate a method in order to determine sugarcane roots with active metabolism and its distribution and growth in the soil profile, by using isotopic dilution technique with 15N associated with sampling by monolite and probe. The experiment was conducted in the sugarcane field, on the region of Piracicaba, State of São Paulo, Brazil, by using the second rattoon of the variety RB 85 5156, grown in a Rhodic Hapludox. The experimental design was in randomized blocks, with four replications. The split plot was considered in relation to the time. The 15N tracer was applied in the plants as urea solution. The above ground part of sugarcane plants were harvested 96 hours after urea solution applications, and trenches with one meter of length and 1.4 meter width were opened transversely to sugarcane rows. Samples were taken by monolite in 0-20, 20-40, 40-60 and 60-80 cm of depth in the soil profile in the row projection and horizontally in the distances of 14 to 42 and 42 to 70 cm from the cane row. Samples were taken by probe in a parallel plan with the internal trench wall at 10 cm of distance from the spot where monolites were collected, in the same depths and at 28 and 56 cm from the row. Roots visually assumed as metabolisms active were separated to each sampling depth and to row lateral projection and were considered standards to determine active roots. Determinations of N contents and 15N abundance in both plant and soil were carried on a mass spectrometer model ANCA-SL (Europa Scientific Ltda.). The results showed the isotopic dilution method with 15N allowed the evaluation of active roots mass and the root distribution in the soil. The root sampling method with probe was adequate comparing with root sampling by monolite in trench to quantify roots, in the following conditions: in the soil depths of 0 to 20, 20 to 40 and 60 to 80 cm to total roots; and in the first 20 cm of depth, where the root mass was higher to active roots. (AU) | |