scholarly journals Soil Temperature Influences the Response of Lettuce to Phosphorus

HortScience ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 864A-864
Author(s):  
B.R. Gardner ◽  
C.A. Sanchez

Lettuce is planted in the southwestern U.S. desert from September through December and harvested from November through April each year. During this period mean soil temperatures range from 7 to 30C. Lettuce produced on desert soils shows a large yield response to P. Soil solution P is replenished by desorption from the labile soil P fraction and this process is temperature sensitive. A field study was conducted over 6 years to evaluate the response of lettuce to soil solution P levels under different ambient soil temperature regimes. The soil temperatures under which lettuce was grown were varied each year by altering planting dates. Soil solution P levels were established and maintained each season using P sorption isotherm methodology. Lettuce responded to P in all experiments. Phosphorus levels required for maximum yield varied with each experiment. Soil P levels required for optimal yield were best correlated to mean soil temperatures during the last 20 days before harvest. Lettuce accumulates over 70% of its P during the heading stage of development and it is likely that during this period of rapid growth and nutrient uptake, solution P becomes limiting when soil temperatures are cool.

Author(s):  
A.V. Cherkashyna ◽  
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E.F. Sotchenko ◽  

Dry matter yield is an objective indicator of assessing the productivity of corn hybrids grown for silage and green fodder. The aim of the work was to identify optimal planting dates to obtain maximum yield of dry matter at the late milk stage of development for hybrids of corn depending on groups of maturity under rain-fed conditions of the Crimean steppe zone. The sowing dates of the field experiment were on April 5th, 15th, and 25th. We studied hybrids of corn of different groups of maturity. Soil – chernozems southern low-humus. Meteorological conditions in 2016 were characterized by increased moisture availability (Selyaninov Hydrothermal Coefficient (HTC) 1.46). In 2017, severe drought was noted (HTC 0.34). Moisture availability was insufficient in 2018 and 2019 (HTC 0.79 and 0.78, respectively). In 2016-2019, the best planting date for hybrid ‘Nur’ was April 15th; the dry matter yield in the late milk stage was 6.69 t/ha. For the medium- early hybrid ‘Mashuk 220 MV’, the best sowing dates were April 15th and 25th; dry matter yield was 5.95 and 5.78 t/ha, respectively. Hybrid ‘Mashuk 355 MV’ demonstrated higher dry matter yield on April 5th and 15th (7.12 and 6.99 t/ha). However, the planting date of April 25th led to significant yield decreased (to 6.1 t/ha).


1985 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. SHEPPARD ◽  
G. J. RACZ

Response of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum) to varied amounts of broadcast and band-applied phosphorus (P) was examined at soil temperatures of 10, 15, 20 and 25 °C. The research emphasized the response of shoot yields with time and the root proliferation in the band-applied P. A non-destructive technique to measure growth with time was developed. This method allowed interpretation of plant responses even though the temperature treatments markedly changed the rate of physiological development. The relative plant-shoot response to P application did not change with time or developmental stage in this experiment. There was a marked effect of temperature on plant response to band-applied P. Band application was more efficient than broadcast P at 10 °C soil temperature, but less efficient at 25 °C soil temperature. Root proliferation in the fertilizer band was significantly different from the control soil-zone only at 10 °C and was not diminished by concurrent application of broadcast P. The efficiency of band application was confirmed with 32P labelling of the banded P. Banded P accounted for more of the total plant P at lower soil temperatures than at higher soil temperatures, regardless of concurrent application of broadcast P. Temperature had little effect on yield response to broadcast P at the final sampling or throughout the growth period. Tissue P concentrations decreased with increases in temperature and with time. Key words: Temperature, root proliferation, band, broadcast, phosphorus


HortScience ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osmar Alves Carrijo ◽  
George Hochmuth

Experiments were conducted to evaluate the yield response of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) to P, either preplant-incorporated or injected through the drip irrigation system, on soils with low, high, or very high soil P content. Fertilization through the drip irrigation system (fertigation) was more efficient than preplant incorporation of P for soil that tested low in P (9 mg·kg–1 Mehlich-1 P). On soil testing low in P, marketable yield response to preplant soil P application rates (0 to 100 kg·ha–1) was maximum at 61 kg·ha–1 P according to the linear-plateau model, but 37 kg·ha–1 P according to the quadratic-plateau model. The lower value is about one-half the P recommended by Univ. of Florida for low-P soils. On soil testing high in P (48 mg·kg–1 Mehlich-1 P) the linear-plateau model predicted a maximum yield of 72.8 t·ha–1 with 25 kg·ha–1 P. The Univ. of Florida recommended no P for that soil. On soil testing very high in P (85 mg·kg–1 Mehlich-1 P), there was no yield improvement with P fertilization.


HortScience ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 476c-476
Author(s):  
Anusuya Rangarajan ◽  
Betsy Ingall

Vegetable growers around New York State are using rowcovers and earlier planting dates to produce early peppers, due to the higher prices received compared to the main season. However, high temperatures often achieved under the tunnels can contribute to blossom abscission of peppers. Water-filled polyethylene tubes, which are placed underneath rowcovers, have been shown to moderate temperatures under low and high tunnels. These tubes of water, placed between or as near to plant rows as possible, under the tunnel, absorb heat during the day and radiate heat during the night. Two tubes, clear and black, were compared for impact on earliness of two varieties of bell pepper. Both tubes were 12″ flat diameter and filled with water to an 8″ flat diameter. Each bed had two rows of peppers, with the water tubes placed down the center. White, perforated plastic was placed over hoops to create row tunnels. Air temperature measurements in the tunnels indicated that both the clear and black tubes decreased the daytime temperatures compared to the tubeless tunnels. The black tubes absorbed more heat during the day. At night, both tubes were equally effective at providing a slight warming of tunnel canopy temperatures. However, clear tubes kept soil temperatures warmer at night and reduced overall soil temperature fluctuations. The black tubes showed no advantage for regulating soil temperature. No significant differences were detected for total yield among different water tubes or cultivars. However, clear tubes contributed to a 30% increase in early yields, compared to control or black tubes. Economics of water tube use in early pepper production will be presented.


2006 ◽  
Vol 86 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 1401-1403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin R Sanderson ◽  
J. Brian Sanderson

Producers seek to manage the application of nutrients in a manner that maximizes economic crop returns; however, emphasis must now include sensitivity to environmental issues such as increasing soil phosphorus. To address this issue in carrot (Daucus carota L.) production, we studied the effect of soil-applied P fertilizers on yield and soil P content in Prince Edward Island. Six field studies over a 3-yr period evaluated the yield response of carrot on sandy to loamy sand Orthic Podzol soils. Treatments consisted of pre-plant broadcast applied P at 0, 33, 66, 99 or 132 kg ha-1 on sites where residual P levels ranged from 81 to 162 µg P g-1. When the total yield response of carrots to increasing P levels was fitted to a quadratic response curve, 110 kg P ha-1 was required to achieve maximum yield, but an application of as little as 22 kg P ha-1 resulted in 95% of maximum marketable yield. This reduced application rate resulted in a saving of 88 kg P ha-1 and slowed the buildup of soil P levels. Therefore, by applying more conservative amounts of P fertilizer carrot growers can maintain excellent crop yield while reducing the potential for environmental damage caused by the buildup of soil P. Key words: Orthic Podzol soil P, tissue P, fertilizer P, maximum yield, Daucus carota L.


2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip W. Moody ◽  
Simon D. Speirs ◽  
Brendan J. Scott ◽  
Sean D. Mason

The phosphorus (P) status of 535 surface soils from all states of Australia was assessed using the following soil P tests: Colwell-P (0.5 m NaHCO3), Olsen-P (0.5 m NaHCO3), BSES-P (0.005 m H2SO4), and Mehlich 3-P (0.2 m CH3COOH + 0.25 m NH4NO3 + 0.015 m NH4F + 0.013 m HNO3 + 0.001 m EDTA). Results were correlated with soil P assays selected to estimate the following: soil solution P concentration (i.e. 0.01 m CaCl2 extractable P; Colwell-P/P buffer index); rate of P supply to the soil solution (i.e. P released to FeO-impregnated filter paper); sorbed P (i.e. Colwell-P); mineral P (i.e. fertiliser reaction products and/or soil P minerals estimated as BSES-P minus Colwell-P); the diffusive supply of P (i.e. P diffusing through a thin gel film, DGT-P); and P buffer capacity (i.e. single-point P buffer index corrected for Colwell-P, PBICol). Across all soils, Colwell-P and BSES-P were highly correlated with FeO-P (r = 0.76 and 0.58, respectively). Colwell-P was moderately correlated with mineral P (r = 0.24), but not solution P. Olsen-P and Mehlich-P were both highly correlated with FeO-P (r = 0.80 and 0.78, respectively) but, in contrast to Colwell-P and BSES-P, also showed moderate correlations with soil solution P (r = 0.29 and 0.34, respectively) and diffusive P supply (r = 0.31 and 0.49, respectively). Correlation coefficients with mineral P were r = 0.29 for Olsen-P and r = 0.17 for Mehlich-P. Soils were categorised according to their pH, clay activity ratio, content of mineral P and CaCO3 content, and the relationships between the empirical soil P tests examined for each soil category. Olsen-P and Colwell-P were correlated across all soil categories (r range 0.66–0.90), and a widely applicable linear equation was obtained for converting one soil test to the other. However, the correlations between other soil tests varied markedly between soil categories and it was not possible to develop such widely applicable conversion equations. Multiple step-up linear regressions were used to identify the key soil properties affecting soil solution P, P buffer capacity, and diffusive P supply, respectively. For all soil categories, solution P concentration (measured by CaCl2-P) increased as rate of P supply (measured as FeO-P) increased and P buffer capacity decreased. As an assay of sorbed P, Colwell-P alone did not significantly (P > 0.05) explain any of the variability in soil solution P, but when used in the index (Colwell-P/P buffer index), it was highly correlated (r = 0.74) with CaCl2-P. Soil P buffer capacity was dependent on different properties in different soil categories, with 45–65% of the variation in PBI accounted for by various combinations of Mehlich-Al, Mehlich-Fe, total organic C, clay content, clay activity ratio, and CaCO3 content, depending on soil category. The diffusive supply of P was primarily determined by rate of P supply (measured as FeO-P; r range 0.34–0.49), with significant (P < 0.05) small improvements due to the inclusion of PBICol and/or clay content, depending on soil category. For these surface soil samples, key properties of pH, clay activity ratio, clay content, and P buffer capacity varied so widely within individual Australian Soil Orders that soil classification was not useful for inferring intrinsic surface soil P properties such as P buffer capacity or the relationships between soil P tests.


1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Walton Mozingo ◽  
Terry A. Coffelt ◽  
F. Scott Wright

Abstract Obtaining maximum yield, value, and grade of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) by deciding the correct planting and digging date of various cultivars is a complex management decision. The influence of planting and digging dates on four large-seeded virginia-type cultivars was determined in a non-irrigated field study at the Tidewater Agricultural Experiment Station in Suffolk, Virginia, from 1983 through 1986. Florigiant, NC 7, NC 9, and VA 81B cultivars were planted at four 10-day intervals beginning about 23 April and harvested at five 10-day intervals beginning about 12 September. Significant differences occurred among cultivars and digging dates each year. NC 7 produced the highest yield, value, extra large kernels, and total kernels. Later digging dates produced higher yield, value, total kernels, and extra large kernels in 1983. The same was true in 1984 through digging date four when the yield and value declined for the fifth digging, while grade characteristics remained the same as digging date four. No significant changes in yield or value occurred after the second digging date in 1986 (22 September); however, total kernels and extra large kernels increased through the fourth digging date. Planting date affected yield only in 1983 (under moisture stress conditions) when each 10-day delay in planting after 29 April resulted in reduced yield and value, while in 1984 the earliest planting date of 20 April (under adverse weather conditions) was the lowest in yield and value. Significant digging date × planting date, digging date × cultivar, and planting date × cultivar interactions were obtained. These results indicate that cultivar selection and digging dates are more important than planting dates in normal years. However, since environmental stress conditions cannot be anticipated, early planting dates would seem to be an advantage when soil temperatures and moisture levels are conducive to good germination and seedling growth.


2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Ylivainio ◽  
Tommi Peltovuori

We studied the effects of soil temperature (8 ºC and 15 ºC) on barley growth, barley phosphorus (P) uptake and soil P solubility. Barley was grown in a pot experiment in two soils with different P fertilization histories for 22 years. The availability of P was estimated by using 33P-labeled fertilizer and calculating L-values. After cultivation for 22 years at ambient soil temperature without P fertilization (-P), soil L-value had decreased compared to soil that received annual P fertilization (P+). Low soil temperature further reduced the L-values, more in the -P soil than in the +P soil. Our results demonstrated that P fertilization can only partially ameliorate poor growth at low soil temperatures. Thus, applying ample fertilization to compensate for poor growth at low soil temperatures would increase the P content and solubility in the soil, but plant uptake would remain inhibited by cold.


2005 ◽  
Vol 54 (1-6) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Zalesny ◽  
R. B. Hall ◽  
E. O. Bauer ◽  
D. E. Riemenschneider

Abstract In addition to genetic control, responses to environmental stimuli affect the success of rooting. Our objectives were to: 1) assess the variation in rooting ability among 21 Populus clones grown under varying soil temperatures and amounts of precipitation and 2) identify combinations of soil temperature and precipitation that promote rooting. The clones belonged to five genomic groups ([P. trichocarpa Torr. & Gray x P. deltoides Bartr. ex Marsh] x P. deltoides ‘BC’; P. deltoides ‘D’; P. deltoides x P. maximowiczii A. Henry ‘DM’; P. deltoides x P. nigra L. ‘DN’; P. nigra x P. maximowiczii ‘NM’). Cuttings, 20 cm long, were planted in Iowa and Minnesota, USA, in randomized complete blocks at 1.2- x 2.4-m spacing across three planting dates during 2001 and 2002. Soil temperatures were converted to belowground growing degree days (GDD) (base temperature = 10°C) accumulated over 14 days. Genomic groups responded similarly for root dry weight, number of roots, total root length, and mean root length, that increased as belowground GDD increased. Belowground GDD and precipitation governed rooting throughout the 14-d growing period. A minimum of four days above 14°C, along with sufficiently dispersed precipitation (e.g. no more than 3 d without a precipitation event), were needed to sustain aboveaverage rooting. Therefore, we recommend using a base temperature of 14°C for future models estimating belowground GDD in northern temperate zones.


HortScience ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 903E-903
Author(s):  
Kent D. Kobayashi ◽  
H.C. Bittenbender ◽  
N.V. Hue

Most soils of Hawaii contain high amounts of iron- and aluminum oxides or amorphous alumino silicate clays, which react strongly with P making it virtually unavailable for plant uptake. Acceptable crop production is not possible unless adequate P fertilizers are applied. Growers need to know if a soil needs P and if so how much. The Farmer's Bookshelf hypermedia information system, which runs under the software HyperCard, can quickly provide these answers. A screen is displayed in which the soil series and the crop to be grown are specified through pull-down menus. The user then enters the Truogextractable P value of the soil and clicks on a “Calculate” button. The soil solution P value is calculated and compared to the minimum soil solution P needed to adequately grow the crop (80% to 95% of maximum yield). If the value is greater than the minimum value, then P fertilizer is not recommended. Otherwise, the program recommends the amount of fertilizer to add as P, P2O5, and treble superphosphate in pound per 1000 square feet and pound per acre. The recommendations, presented in a table, can then be printed for clientele use.


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