Soil carbon accumulation in cotton production systems in the Brazilian Cerrado



Document title: Soil carbon accumulation in cotton production systems in the Brazilian Cerrado
Journal: Acta scientiarum. Agronomy
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000460069
ISSN: 1679-9275
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Institutions: 1Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria, Santo Antonio de Goias, Goias. Brasil
2Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria, Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul. Brasil
3Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria, Campinas, Sao Paulo. Brasil
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Volumen: 42
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Experimental, aplicado
English abstract Sustainable production systems, such as the no-tillage system (NTS), have a tendency to increase organic carbon in the soil. However, in Brazilian cotton production, the conventional tillage system (CTS) is predominant, and long-term studies on cotton crop under the NTS are scarce. The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of soil management and crop rotation systems on the cotton fiber yield as well as on the carbon and nitrogen accumulation in the soil. This study was conducted in the Brazilian savanna over 9 years and consisted of the following four treatments with different soil management systems: the NTS and CTS with the succession or rotation of crops (cotton, soybean, maize, and Urochloa ruziziensis). The NTS increased the carbon content by 55% in the top 5 cm after 9 years and increased the carbon stock by approximately 20% at a depth of up to 40 cm. Crop rotation with soybean, maize, and cotton was insufficient to increase the carbon stock in the soil under the CTS. In addition to increasing the fiber yield, the cotton crop in a NTS rotated with soybean + U. ruziziensis and with maize + U. ruziziensis increases the carbon stock and nitrogen content in soil
Disciplines: Agrociencias
Keyword: Suelos,
Plantas para uso industrial,
Algodón,
Gossypium hirsutum,
Labranza cero,
Carbón,
Nitrógeno
Keyword: Soils,
Plants for industrial use,
Cotton,
Gossypium hirsutum,
No-tillage,
Nitrogen,
Carbon
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