Palisadegrass effects on N fertilizer dynamic in intercropping systems with corn



Document title: Palisadegrass effects on N fertilizer dynamic in intercropping systems with corn
Journal: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000412328
ISSN: 0001-3765
Authors: 1
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Institutions: 1Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria, Pesca e Aquicultura, Palmas, Tocantins. Brasil
2Universidade de Sao Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Piracicaba, Sao Paulo. Brasil
3Instituto Federal do Parana, Departamento de Agronomia, Palmas, Parana. Brasil
4Universidade de Sao Paulo, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Piracicaba, Sao Paulo. Brasil
Year:
Season: Sep
Volumen: 89
Number: 3
Pages: 1917-1924
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Experimental, aplicado
English abstract Corn grain yield, nitrogen (N) fertilizer efficiency and distribution to corn alone and three forms of corn and palisadegrass (Urochloa spp.) intercropping implantation was investigated. A field experiment with 15N labeling fertilizer was performed in randomized block design. No form of palisadegrass intercropping implantation affected corn grain yield, total N accumulation and N use efficiency (NUE), which were 8.7 t ha-1, 205 kg ha-1 and 37% respectively. The palisadegrass produced on average 1.9 t of dry mass, absorbing a maximum of 6 kg ha-1 or 5.5% of N fertilizer during corn growing. Furthermore, the palisadegrass did not affect N fertilizer distribution in soil-plant system, in which 28.2% was recovered in the soil and 40.4% in the plants (corn + palisadegrass). The results show that for the three intercropping implantation methods the palisadegrass did not compete with corn for N fertilizer
Disciplines: Agrociencias
Keyword: Fertilización,
Gramíneas,
Asociación de cultivos,
Nitrógeno,
Asimilación de nutrientes,
Labranza cero,
Urochloa,
Zea mays
Keyword: Agricultural sciences,
Fertilization,
Gramineae,
Intercrops,
Nitrogen,
Nutrients assimilation,
No tillage,
Urochloa,
Zea mays
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