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| Author(s): |
Raul Henrique Sartori
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA/STB) |
| Defense date: | 2010-12-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Paulo Cesar Ocheuze Trivelin;
Edgar Gomes Ferreira de Beauclair;
Heitor Cantarella;
Carlos Eduardo Faroni;
Jorge de Castro Kiehl
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| Advisor: | Paulo Cesar Ocheuze Trivelin |
| Abstract | |
The objectives of this study were to evaluate the responses of a first ratoon of sugar cane to fertilization with nitrogen and sulfur related to the dose of N applied at planting of the crop and the effect of these combinations of N and S on the productivity of the subsequent ratoon (residual effect); and evaluate the use and redistribution of N and S in the first and second ratoon, using the stable isotopes 15N and 34S. The experiment was installed in the field in a commercial area with the cultivar SP81 3250, in a Arenic Kandiustults of medium texture. The experimental design in the cane-plant agricultural cycle was randomized blocks, with four replications, with the following treatments having been established: control (without nitrogen fertilization) and the N dose of 80 kg ha-1 from urea (U). In the first ratoon, the cane-plant plots were subdivided into four subplots, with each one receiving doses of ammonium sulfate (SA): 236, 471 and 707 kg ha-1, as well as the control without application of SA. The doses of SA correspond to 50, 100 and 150 kg ha-1 of N and 57, 114 and 171 kg ha-1 of S respectively. In the first ratoon cycle, in the treatments with 236 and 471 kg ha-1 of SA, microplots were installed with the application of enriched ammonium sulfate with 2.96 and 2.15% atoms of 15N and 8.0 and 10.5% atoms of 34S respectively. In these microplots, the contribution of the N and S of the fertilizer in the total accumulation of N and S by the sugar cane throughout the first ratoon cycle was estimated. Harvest of the first ratoon occurred 12 months after the cutting of the cane-plant. In the second ratoon (SC) agricultural cycle, nitrogen fertilization was maintained with the application of ammonium nitrate at the doses of 50, 100 and 150 kg ha-1 of N, in the treatments corresponding to the doses of N, with the control remaining without fertilization with N, and the microplots preserved in which the contribution of the N fertilizer and of the S fertilizer in the total accumulation of N and S by the sugar cane at the end of this cycle was also estimated. For the first ratoon, the following were evaluated: stalk productivity per hectare (TCH), the technological attributes, the dry matter of the above ground part, the use of the 15N/34S of the SA and the effect of the cane-plant treatments on the use of nitrogen and sulfur by the first ratoon. In the third cutting (second ratoon), the following were evaluated: stalk productivity per hectare (TCH), the technological attributes and the residual effect of the 15N/34S of the SA. The greatest percentages of N and S arising from the SA were verified in the initial growth stages of the crop, with decreases at harvest. The nitrogen fertilization at planting provided for na increase in stalk production of the first ratoon. The recovery (kg ha-1) of the N and S of the fertilizer increased with the dose of SA; however, the use efficiency was the same. The utilization evaluated in the above ground part of the sugar cane was 37 kg ha-1 (50%) for N fertilizer and 2.6 kg ha-1 (3%) for the S fertilizer. Of the N and S fertilizer applied on the first ratoon and second ratoon, 3.8 kg ha-1 (5%) and 1.2 kg ha-1 (1.4%) was used respectively, on average (AU) | |