Ammonium fixation on soil profile of a mollisol cultivated with sugarcane in the valley of Yaracuy river, Venezuela
Keywords:
ammonification, 2:1 clays, montmorillonite, Sacharum officinarum L
Abstract
The ammonium fixation (NH4f) was analyzed in the different horizons of the soil profile (0-200 cm), in a molisol located between Farriar and Palmarejo, Yaracuy state, Venezuela. Soil with abundant clays 2: 1 (montmoriloniticas and muscoviticas) and cultivated with sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum L.). The changes in NH f during the course of the vegetative cycle of the plantation were also studied. The fixed ammonium was determined by Silva and Bremner method. The soil of the experimental plot presented high content of nitrogen as fixed ammonium. This represents in the profile between 18-57% of NH f / N-total and is associated with the presence of minerals 2: 1. Ammonium fixation occurred mainly in the silty fraction. A high positive relationship was found between the percentage of silt and NH f. The association of the percentage of silt plus clay was high. This decreased in relation to cation exchange capacity and organic matter content; On the other hand, no correlation was found with the clay percentage. Variations of the ammonium fraction fixed with the development of the crop were registered in the plantation; associated with the fertilizer application and the soil microbiological processes intensity, particularly N mineralization and ammonification-nitrification. The ammonium fixed in this soil acts as a reservoir of nitrogen, which is released and becomes available in stages of greater requirement by the crop.
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• Paramasivam, S; Breitenbeck, GA. 1994. Distribution of nitrogen in soils of the Southern Mississippi River alluvial plain. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 25:247-267.
• Pla Sentís I. 1983. Metodología para la caracterización física con fines de diagnóstico de problemas de manejo y conservación de suelos en condiciones tropicales. Alcance Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay. 32: 91.
• Rodríguez, G. 1954. Fixed ammonium in tropical soils. Journal Soil Science 5:264-274.
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• Sequera, PE; López-Hernández, D; Medina, E. 1984. La producción de caña de azúcar en el Valle del Río Yaracuy. Caracas, EDICANPA. 135 p.
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• Wehrmann, J; Eschenhoff, HCZ. 1986. Distribution of nitrate, exchangeable and nonexchangeable ammonium in the soil-root interface. Plant and Soil 91:421-424.
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2017-12-29
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López-Hernández, D., & Infante, C. (2017). Ammonium fixation on soil profile of a mollisol cultivated with sugarcane in the valley of Yaracuy river, Venezuela. Agronomía Tropical, 67(1-4), 152-160. Retrieved from http://publicaciones.inia.gob.ve/index.php/agronomiatropical/article/view/150
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