Balanço de nitrogênio e enxofre no sistema solo-cana-de-açúcar no ciclo de cana-planta / Nitrogen and sulfur balance in the soil-sugarcane system during the plant cane cycle

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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This works objective was to evaluate the use and distribution of nitrogen and sulfur added to the soil as fertilizers in the soil-sugarcane system (plant cane), using the stable isotopes 15N and 34S. The study also aimed to evaluate the contribution of nitrogen mineralized from sugar cane crop residues labeled with 15N and incorporated into the soil, in a condition similar to that found in the renovation of a sugarcane plantation without burning the trash. Losses of N and S from the soil and from the fertilizers via leaching were quantified. Sugarcane responses in terms of yield and plant cane quality to N and S fertilization at planting were determined, and the N and S final balances in the soil-sugarcane system were calculated. The research was conducted at the Apta 15 Experiment Station in Piracicaba/SP, using 220 L-capacity plastic pots filled with approximately 250 kg of a sandy-textured soil. Two experiments were conducted simultaneously in a random block experimental design with four replicates. The first experiment consisted of a full 4 X 2 factorial arrangement (four N doses: 0, 1.2, 2.4, and 3.6 g N pot-1 and two S doses: 0 and 2.1 g S pot-1) and application of isotopically labeled fertilizers (15N- 10% in atoms and 34S-9.5% in atoms) and crop residues (dry leaves, shoots and roots + rhizomes) without isotopic labeling. The second experiment consisted of five treatments involving those N and S level combinations, except that they received isotopically labeled crop residues (15N- 0.827% in atoms). Crop residues and lime were added to the soil surface layer (0-25cm). The treatments were applied after liming, and planting was accomplished by transplanting three buds per pot of sugarcane cultivar SP 80-3280. The experiments lasted 16 months. The increased N extraction provided by increased fertilizer N doses resulted in S-extraction synergism. In the conditions of this study, under nitrogen nutrition limitation in plant cane, S fertilization in association with N fertilization did not result in a synergistic crop productivity effect; however, there was a productivity response to increasing N doses, without response to S application. S leaching (fertilizer S and native S from the soil) decreased as N doses increased. The final N balance indicated a 35% utilization by plants of fertilizer-N and 14% of crop residue-N, with residual effects in those sources of 34 and 75% N, respectively. The unaccounted N in the system were 10 and 31%, respectively, for crop residue-N and fertilizer-N sources, which were attributed to ammonia losses by volatilization from the soil and via the above-ground part of the plant, and to denitrification. A 32% utilization of fertilizer-S by the plants was verified in the final S balance, with a residual effect in the soil of 43% of fertilization. S not accounted for in the system reached a maximum value of 10% of the total applied, attributed to losses by SO2 volatilization via the above-ground part of the sugarcane plants.

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relação solo-planta nitrogênio isótopo 34s isotopic balance enxofre planting fertilization cana-de-açúcar 15n adubação

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