ABSTRACT Micronutrient research for sugarcane in northeastern Brazil is scarce and most works on this issue date back to the 70’s and 80’s. The objectives of this study were to assess the available and reserve pools of Fe, Mn, Cu, and Zn in soils cultivated with sugarcane under three geological contexts in northeastern Brazil as well as to diagnose the micronutrient nutritional status of sugarcane grown on these areas in order to identify pedogeological conditions in which micronutrient deficiencies are […]

The Southern part of Minas Gerais State is an important coffee producer region in Brazil. Though coffee yields are still quite low. Plant tissue analysis based on sufficiency ranges as well as the Diagnosis and Recommendation Integrated System (DRIS) are important tools for the correct use of fertilizers. However, as local standards are not yet obtained for Coffea arabica in that region, recognition as well as calibration of reference values used elsewhere are called for. Objectives of this study were: […]

An experiment was carried out under greenhouse conditions at the Soil Science Department of the Universidade Federal de Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil, to determine critical levels of different phophorus fractions and acid phosphatase activity in bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. Carioca-MG); the relationship between these fractions and the acid phosphatase activity and grain production, and the relationship between acid phosphatase activity determined “in vivo” and “in vitro“. The plants were cultivated on four lowland soils of southern Minas Gerais, […]

Two axial experiments were carried out in two soils of the Northeast of Brazil from 1987 to 1992 to study the response of coconut to urea, simple superphosphate and potassium chloride. Nitrogen was found to affect the number of fruit in the Quartz Sand Soil. The critical level for nitrogen in leaf 14 was 17.18 g kg-1 which was reached when 1.538 kg of N was applied per plant/year. In the same soil, simple superphosphate did not influence the number of fruit while […]

Data from 1.213 trees of Eucalyptus grandis x E. urophylla hybrids were collected between 1988 and 1994 from the Aracruz Celulose S.A. commercial plantation in the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Data on stand productivity and macronutrient concentration in four tree components (leaf, branch, stembark and stemwood) were used to determine the reference values of nutrient concentration by the methods of Mathematical Chance and DRIS. The formula of Jones and the population distribution based on age and selection of the […]