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| Author(s): |
Fábio Vale
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: | 2001-05-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Carlos Alcarde;
Cassio Hamilton Abreu Junior;
Edson Luiz Mendes Coutinho;
Gaspar Henrique Korndorfer;
Godofredo Cesar Vitti
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| Advisor: | Jose Carlos Alcarde |
| Abstract | |
The Brazilian fertilizer legislation only defines that micronutrients must be guaranteed by their total amount. This has allowed the use of by-products as source of micronutrients for fertilizers, which agronomic efficiencies are still doubtful. The purpose of this work was to characterize the solubility of boron and zinc from fertilizers through water, 20 g L-1 citric acid, neutral ammonium citrate (1+9) and DTPA extractant solutions. Correlation between solubilities of micronutrients in the fertilizers and their contents in test plants were tried in order to identify the extractor thatshowed the best evaluation of micronutrient availability on fertilizers for plants. Boron availability for soybean was the same in all fertilizers. The results showed that both solubility in citric acid or neutral ammonium citrate and total amount of boron was a good indication of this micronutrient availability in all fertilizers. The neutral ammonium citrate (1+9), relationship 1:100 and boiling for five minutes showed to be a good extractor to identify zinc availability for plants. Your adoption will contribute to improve fertizations and strengthening of the industry of fertilizers with micronutrients. (AU) | |