scholarly journals Biological fixation, transfer and balance of nitrogen in passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims) orchard intercropped with different green manure crops

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ((03) 2019) ◽  
pp. 465-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edilândia Farias Dantas ◽  
Ana Dolores Santiago de Freitas ◽  
Maria do Carmo Catanho Pereira de Lyra ◽  
Carolina Etienne de Rosália e Silva Santos ◽  
Stella Jorge de Carvalho Neta ◽  
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Green manures can replace or supplement mineral fertilization and add organic matter to the soils, ensuring greater sustainability to fruit growing in semiarid regions. Biological fixation, transfer and balance of nitrogen were determined on an irrigated yellow passion fruit orchard (Passiflora edulis Sims) intercropped separately with three cover crops: sunn hemp, Crotalaria juncea (L.); pigeon pea, Cajanus cajan (L.) Mill; and jack bean, Canavalia ensiformis (L.) DC. In a fourth treatment, legumes were not planted, but spontaneous vegetation was left to grow freely. The legumes were croped for 90 days in three lines (0.5 m apart) inside the passion fruit plant lines (2.5 m apart). Fixation and transfers were determined by the 15N natural abundance technique, using sunflower as a reference plant. The three planted legumes nodulated abundantly and fixed nitrogen in high proportions (between 50 and 90% of their N), forming symbiosis with bacteria naturally established in the soil. Jack bean produced more biomass than sunn hemp and pigeon pea, and as much as the spontaneous plants, of which 23% were legumes. The amounts of fixed N (150, 43, 30 and 29 kg ha-1) were determined mainly by the biomass of legumes. More than 40% of the N of passion fruit plants came from the biological nitrogen fixation of the intercropped jack bean, which provided an amount of N higher than that exported in the fruits, generating a positive balance of more than 100 kg ha-1. Therefore, it is recommended to intercrop jack bean in irrigated passion fruit orchards.

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto BF Branco ◽  
Sally F Blat ◽  
Tais GS Gimenes ◽  
Rodrigo HD Nowaki ◽  
Humberto S Araújo ◽  
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ABSTRACT The production of horticultural crops in no-tillage and in rotation with cover crops reduces the dependency in nitrogen fertilizer, due to increased soil organic matter and by biological fixation performed by legumes. Thus, the aim of this work was to study rates of nitrogen fertilization and cover crops in the agronomic performance of tomato and broccoli grown under no-tillage. The experiment was conducted in a split plot design with four replications. Treatments consisted of cover crops, sunn hemp and millet, and four rates of nitrogen fertilization (0, 50, 100 and 200 kg/ha of nitrogen), for both the tomato and broccoli crops. All soil management was performed in no-tillage. For tomato crops we evaluated the plant growth, the nitrate concentration of sprouts and fruits and yield of commercial and non commercial fruits. For broccoli we evaluated plant growth and yield. There was an interaction effect between cover crop and nitrogen rates to tomato growth measured at 100 days after transplanting, for plant height, number of fruit bunches, dry mass of leaves and diameter of the stalk. The tomato commercial fruit number and yield showed maximum values with 137 and 134 kg/ha of N respectively, on the sunn hemp straw. The nitrate concentration of the tomato sprouts was linearly increasing with the increase of nitrogen rates, when grown on the millet straw. For broccoli production, the maximum fresh mass of commercial inflorescence was with 96 kg/ha of N, when grown on the millet straw.


Biotemas ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Kamilla Pacheco Govêa ◽  
Antônio Rodrigues Cunha Neto ◽  
Natália Martins Resck ◽  
Letícia Leite Moreira ◽  
Valdir Veroneze Júnior ◽  
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O alagamento no solo é um fenômeno que reduz a sobrevivência, o crescimento e o desenvolvimento de plantas, podendo ocasionar queda na produtividade quando essas são agricultáveis. O maracujazeiro (Passiflora edulis Sims) é uma frutífera comercial com propriedades medicinais cuja produção incentiva a irrigação; e não são encontrados estudos que apresentem efeitos do excesso de água no solo sobre estas plantas. O objetivo deste trabalho foi verificar alterações morfoanatômicas e fisiológicas no desenvolvimento inicial de plântulas de maracujazeiro expostas a diferentes níveis de água no solo. As plântulas foram organizadas em três tratamentos: solo com capacidade de campo, pré-submergido e alagado. Após sete dias, foram feitas análises de trocas gasosas, potencial hídrico, quantificação de prolina e cortes anatômicos de raízes. O solo alagado influencia as trocas gasosas e afeta negativamente a fotossíntese. Não houve alterações no potencial hídrico nem na quantificação de prolina entre os tratamentos. Os tratamentos pré-submergido e alagado apresentaram aerênquima e aumento no diâmetro das raízes e na espessura das barreiras apoplásticas e do córtex. O maracujazeiro apresentou alterações fisiológicas e anatômicas que permitiram sua sobrevivência em condições pré-submergidas e alagadas, o que significa que plântulas jovens dessa espécie suportam maiores quantidades de água no solo.


Irriga ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-190
Author(s):  
Ana Alexandrina Gama da Silva ◽  
Antonio Evaldo Klar

DEMANDA HÍDRICA DO MARACUJAZEIRO AMARELO (Passiflora edulis Sims f. flavicarpa Deg.)   Ana Alexandrina Gama da SilvaEmbrapa Tabuleiros Costeiros, CP 44, CEP 49025-040, Aracaju, SE. E-mail: [email protected] Evaldo KlarDepartamento de Engenharia Rural, Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas, Universidade Estadual Paulista, CP 237, CEP 18603-970, Botucatu, SP. E-mail: [email protected] Científico do CNPq   1 RESUMO  Determinou-se à demanda hídrica e o coeficiente de cultivo (Kc) do maracujá amarelo (Passiflora edulis Sims f. flavicarpa Deg.), seleção Sul-Brasil, cultivado sob irrigação localizada, no município de Botucatu-SP (22o 51’ S,  48o 26’ W). A evapotranspiração máxima da cultura (ETc) e a evapotranspiração de referência (ETo) foram medidas em lisímetros de nível de lençol freático constante, durante o período de 29 de setembro de 2000 a 20 de julho de 2001. Os valores da ETc e ETo foram de 954,98 mm e  1.069,21 mm, respectivamente, durante todo o período medido. Os valores de Kc variaram de 0,42 a 1,12, com os valores máximos registrados entre 150 e 210 dias após o transplantio das mudas no campo (DAT), período correspondente aos estádios fenológicos de florescimento e formação dos frutos.  UNITERMOS: Passiflora edulis, evapotranspiração, coeficiente de cultivo (Kc).   SILVA, A.A.G. da, KLAR, A.E.  YELLOW PASSION FRUIT (Passiflora edulis Sims f. flavicarpa Deg.) CROP: WATER DEMAND.   2 ABSTRACT  Crop water demand and crop water coefficient (Kc = ETc/ETo) of yellow passion fruit were evaluated in constant level lysimeters under drip irrigation from September 21, 2000 to July 31, 2001 in Botucatu-SP. The maximum crop water demand (ETc) and the Reference Evapotranspiration (ETo), measured by lysimeters, were 954.98 mm and 1,069.21 mm, respectively, during all period measured. The values of Kc varied from 0.42 to 1.12  with maximum values registered from 150 to 210 days following transplanting during flowering and fruit formation  phases.  KEYWORDS: Passiflora edulis, evapotranspiration, crop coefficient (Kc). 


BMC Genomics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Araya ◽  
Alexandre M Martins ◽  
Nilton T V Junqueira ◽  
Ana Maria Costa ◽  
Fábio G Faleiro ◽  
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Weed Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Roberto Botelho Ferraz Branco ◽  
Fernando de Carvalho ◽  
João Paulo de Oliveira ◽  
Pedro Luis da Costa Alves

Abstract Cover crop residue left on the soil surface as organic mulch in no-tillage crop production provides several environmental benefits, including weed suppression. Thus, many farmers who use cover crops attempt to reduce the use of agricultural inputs, especially herbicides. Therefore, our objectives were to study the potential of different cover crop species to suppress weeds and produce an in situ organic mulch, and evaluate the effect of the organic mulch with and without spraying glyphosate on weed suppression for vegetable (tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. and broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis) growth and yield. Five cover crop treatments (sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.), jack bean [Canavalia ensiformis (L.) DC.], pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.], grain sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench ssp. bicolor] and a no-cover crop (control)) were used in the main plots; and spraying or no spraying glyphosate on the flattened cover crop in the sub plots of split-plot experimental design. Organic mulch from pearl millet, sorghum and sunn hemp resulted in lower weed biomass during the early season of both tomato and broccoli than jack bean and no-cover crop (control). Spraying glyphosate after roller crimping reduced weed biomass by 103 g m−2 and 20 g m−2 by 45 and 60 days after transplanting (DAT) of tomato, respectively and resulted in a better tomato yield compared to non spraying. Glyphosate reduced weed biomass by 110 g m−2 in the early season of broccoli (30 DAT), but did not affect yield. Terminating high biomass cover crops with a roller crimper is a promising technique for weed management in vegetable crops, which has the potential to reduce or even eliminate the need for herbicide.


2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-301
Author(s):  
SIMONE DE MELO SANTANA-GOMES ◽  
CLAUDIA REGINA DIAS-ARIEIRA ◽  
JÚLIO CÉSAR ANTUNES FERREIRA ◽  
RAIANE PEREIRA SCHWENGBER ◽  
SEPHORA SERRANO BALDISERA

ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate the reproduction of Pratylenchus zeae and P. brachyurus in leguminous plants used as cover crops. Seedlings of sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea and C. spectabilis), pigeon pea cultivar IPR 43 (Cajanus cajan), dwarf velvet bean (Mucuna deeringiana), black velvet bean (Stizolobium aterrimum), and jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis) were inoculated with each nematode separately. Maize cultivar IPR 114 and soybean cultivar Pintado were used as controls to measure the viability of the inoculation of P. zeae and P. brachyurus. After 90 days of inoculation, the plants were collected and nematode g-1 root, final population, and reproduction factors (RF) were evaluated. The experiment was carried out at two different times of the year. The nematode’s RF on cover crops from treatments with the two Crotalaria species, dwarf pigeon pea, and black velvet bean were lower than one (bad host plants) in both experiments for P. zeae. For P. brachyurus, the lowest RFs were obtained for C. juncea, C. spectabilis, and pigeon pea, while the other plants presented RF values close to or higher than one in at least one of the experiments. Therefore, C. spectabilis, C. juncea, and C. cajan cultivar IPR 43 are antagonistic plants that represent useful options for rotation or succession systems that aim to control P. zeae and P. brachyurus.


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