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| Author(s): |
Maria Del Valle Basanta
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2004-05-31 |
| Examining board members: |
Durval Dourado Neto;
Heitor Cantarella;
Klaus Reichardt;
Luís Carlos Timm;
Paulo Cesar Ocheuze Trivelin
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| Advisor: | Durval Dourado Neto |
| Abstract | |
To evaluate during five years the effects of two trash management systems in a sugarcane crop, the traditional harvest system with trash burning before harvest (CQ) and an alternative system without trash burning (SQ), on stalk yield and nitrogen nutrition of the crop, and on the distribution in the soil-plant system of the nitrogen introduced by fertilizer and trash, an experiment was carried out in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil, with the following treatments fertilized at planting with 63kg.ha-1 of N: (T1) 15N-labeled ammonium sulfate (AS), harvested with SQ system, and after the first harvest received all the unlabeled trash from T2; (T2) unlabeled AS, harvested with the SQ system, and after the first harvest received all the 15N-labeled trash from T1; and (T3) 15N-AS, and harvested with the CQ system. Annually, at harvest, plants were divided in stalks, tips and residues; and the soil (<2000µm) was sampled in the 0-15, 15-30 and 30-50cm layers, and physically fractionated in particle sizes of 200-2000µm (Fl, light organic fraction, and Fp, heavy mineral fraction), 53-200µm (Fom, organomineral fraction) and <53µm (Fsa, silt-clay fraction). The evaluated variables were: stalk yield (Mg.ha-1); total nitrogen (Nt, kg.ha-1), nitrogen derived from fertilizer (NddF, kg.ha-1), and nitrogen derived from residues (NddR, kg.ha-1) in soil and plant; and total carbon in soil (C, Mg.ha-1). During all years, stalk yield and uptake nitrogen were higher (p<0.05) in the CQ than in the SQ system. Considering the quantity of residues that remained in the system and their Nt content, the estimated potential of N recycling for the system SQ was 65% of the Nt contained in the aboveground parts of the crop. For the CQ harvest system, the potential loss of N was estimated as 85% of N in the aboveground parts of the crop. In the cane-plant harvest, the recovery of NddF in the soil-plant system was of 46,9kg.ha-1 (63,0% were found in the aboveground part of the crop). In the following years, an exponential decrease of NddF recovered in the aboveground part of the plant was observed. In the SQ harvest system, the NddF recovered in the soil-plant system in the second year (first ratoon cane) was significantly higher (p<0.05) than in the CQ system. Approximately, 95% of NddR were immobilized in the soil, remaining in the system at the end of the crop of the fourth ratoon cane, four years after that it have been added. The contents of total carbon and nitrogen in the soil fractions presented growing values in the following order: Fsa>Fom>Fl. The fraction Fsa contained more than 70% of the total C and total N of the soil. The harvest system did not influence the soil carbon content neither his distribution in the fractions. At the fourth ratoon cane (2002), the SQ system presented values of Nt higher (p<0.05%) in Fl and Fom in the 0-15cm layer, and in Fom in the 30-50cm layer. The 15N-residues from the first crop cycle explain the higher content of 15N in Fl. (AU) | |