In the Diagnosis and Recommendation Integrated System (DRIS), norms for coffee in the Upper Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil, have not been established yet. The lack of these norms hinders the application of the DRIS to the coffee plantations in the region. The foliar diagnosis, based on the DRIS and on critical reference ranges, stands out among the tools that allow an efficient use of fertilizers. This study aimed to determine DRIS norms as well as to establish values of […]

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: […]

The variability of leaf nutrient concentrations (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, copper, manganese, and iron) was assessed in a twelve-year-old orange orchard, cv. Pêra, grown on a dystrophic Yellow Latosol of medium texture plain relief, in Governador Mangabeira, State of Bahia, Brazil, 1990. A transect consisting of 50 trees, spaced four meters apart, was sampled. Twenty leaves were collected from each tree. The leaves were taken from four different points of the crown, opposite two by two, and from […]