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| Author(s): |
Bruno, Isabeli Pereira
[1]
;
Reichardt, Klaus
[2]
;
Bortolotto, Rafael Pivotto
[1]
;
Pinto, Victor Meriguetti
[2]
;
Santos Bacchi, Osny Oliveira
[2]
;
Dourado-Neto, Durval
[1]
;
Unkovich, Murray John
[3]
Total Authors: 7
|
| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Sao Paulo, Escola Super Agr Luiz de Queiroz, Dept Crop Prod, BR-13418900 Piracicaba - Brazil
[2] Univ Sao Paulo, Ctr Nucl Energy Agr, Lab Soil Phys, BR-13418900 Piracicaba - Brazil
[3] Univ Adelaide, Sch Agr Food & Wine, Adelaide, SA - Australia
Total Affiliations: 3
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION; v. 38, n. 13, p. 2055-2076, NOV 10 2015. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 6 |
| Abstract | |
Brazil is a major world coffee producer, using increasing quantities of nitrogen (N) fertilizer as the monoculture expands across the savannas. The fate and efficiency of this fertilizer N were evaluated for one complete cropping cycle using N-15 tracer, permitting an N balance at harvest. Annual rates of 200, 400, 600, and 800kg N ha(-1) year(-1) of N-15-labeled urea and an unfertilized control were applied every 14days via fertigation. The N concentration, percentage of N derived from fertilizer, quantity of N derived from fertilizer, and percentage of nitrogen derived from fertilizer per N rate was assessed for 8-year-old coffee trees. The most efficient N use was with 200kg ha(-1) year(-1) because it presented the lowest losses and highest N recoveries in the crop. Conversely, the least sustainable rate was 800kg ha(-1) year(-1), which presented the greatest losses and the lowest N recovery in the whole plant. (AU) | |