Suprimento combinado de fósforo e magnésio para a produção e nutrição do capim-Tanzânia / Combined supply of phosphorus and magnesium for Tanzania grass production and mineral nutrition

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2007

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Due to the potential for high yield and nutritional value, Tanzania grass stands out as an excellent option cultivar of the Panicum maximum specie to the Brazilian livestock production. It is known that this grass usually need high soil fertility. The objective was to evaluate the response of Tanzania grass to combinations of phosphorus and magnesium rates, in relation to the number of leaves and tillers, SPAD, leaf area, shoot dry mass production, root surface and length, specific root surface and length, concentration of phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, potassium and zinc in the diagnostic leaves as well as the concentration of phosphorus and magnesium in the roots, proportion among cations magnesium, calcium and potassium in the shoots and visual symptoms related to the supply of these nutrients. The experiment was carried out in a greenhouse, by using nutrient solutions in pots containing ground quartz as substrate, from October 2005 to January 2006, at Piracicaba, State of São Paulo. A fractioned 52 factorial was used, with five rates of phosphorus (0.20; 0.60; 1.00; 1.40 and 1.80 mmol L-1) combined with five rates of magnesium (0.05; 0.70; 1.35; 2.00 and 2.65 mmol L-1). The first harvest was done 29 days after the seedlings transplanting to the pots and the second harvest was also 29 days after the first one. Just after harvesting, the shoots of the plants were separated in emergent leaves, newly expanded leaves lamina (diagnostic leaves), mature leaves lamina and culms plus sheaths. After the second harvest the roots were separated from the ground quartz. The combinations of phosphorus and magnesium were determinant, only at the second harvest, for leaf area, shoot and roots dry mass production, phosphorus concentration in the diagnostic leaves as well as roots length, specific surface and phosphorus and magnesium concentrations. At the first harvest, phosphorus rates changed the number of tillers and leaves on both harvests, the SPAD value, leaf area, shoot dry mass production and the phosphorus concentration and, at the second harvest the specific root length and calcium and zinc concentrations. The magnesium supply influenced the SPAD value, shoot dry mass production and the phosphorus, magnesium and potassium in the diagnostic leaves at the first harvest and, at the second harvest, it resulted in changes in the magnesium, potassium and zinc concentrations in the diagnostic leaves. The maximum yields of Tanzania grass were achieved with the supply above 1.40 mmol L-1 and 2.00 mmol L-1 of phosphorus and magnesium, respectively. The magnesium proportion in the total cations sum in the shoot, corresponding to the highest yields, was around 22 and 25%. Visual symptoms of phosphorus and magnesium deficiencies were observed at the lowest rates of both nutrients supplied to the plants.

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fósforo raízes nutrição vegetal tanzania-grass magnesium roots plant nutrition solução nutritiva capim-tanzânia nutrient solution phosphorus magnésio

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