Intensive annual crop production and root development in a tropical acid soil under long-term no-till and soil-amendment management
Claudio H. M. da Costa A B , Antonio C. A. Carmeis Filho B , Carlos A. C. Crusciol B C , Rogério P. Soratto B and Tiara M. Guimarães B
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A Special Academic Unit of Agricultural Sciences, Federal University of Goiás (UFG), 75801-615 Jataí, GO, Brazil.
B College of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Science, São Paulo State University (FCA/UNESP), PO Box 237, 18610-307 Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
C Corresponding author. Email: crusciol@fca.unesp.br
Crop and Pasture Science 69(5) 488-505 https://doi.org/10.1071/CP17233
Submitted: 3 July 2017 Accepted: 8 February 2018 Published: 9 May 2018
Abstract
In tropical conservation agricultural systems, crop yield is limited by soil acidity and root-growth inhibition, especially under intensive crop rotation. This study evaluated the effect of surface applications of lime and phosphogypsum in improving soil fertility and crop yield in a tropical region. Four treatments were evaluated: control (without soil amendment); and application phosphogypsum (2.1 + 2.1 + 2.1 Mg ha–1), lime (2.7 + 2.0 + 2.0 Mg ha–1), and a combination of lime and phosphogypsum at the given rates, applied in 2002, 2004 and 2010, respectively. We evaluated the soil chemical properties, root development, plant nutrition, yield components and grain yield of 10 crops over 4 years using five species: maize (Zea mays), crambe (Crambe abyssinica), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), wheat (Triticum aestivum) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Our long-term results demonstrate the benefits of surface liming in alleviating subsoil acidity, reducing Al3+ toxicity, improving availability of Ca2+ and Mg2+, and increasing accumulation of soil organic matter in all soil profiles at depths up to 0.60 m. For maize and crambe, adding phosphogypsum increased development of plants and reproductive structures, which increased grain yield. Phosphogypsum exhibited synergistic effects in association with lime for maize and common bean. Phosphogypsum did not have an effect on cowpea and wheat, whereas surface liming was essential to improve plant nutrition, grain yield and wheat grain quality. The combination of both soil amendments is an important tool to reduce the soil acidification process, resulting in the highest levels of Ca2+ and Mg2+ and the highest base-saturation values in the topsoil layers (0–0.20 m) over time. Our long-term results showed the viability of surface liming plus phosphogypsum for improving tropical soil fertility, which can reflect an increase in grain yield and contribute to the sustainability of agricultural systems under intensive land use in highly weathered areas.
Additional keywords: Brazilian tropical soils, crop production, limestone, root growth, SOM.
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