The deepening of citrus root system is important to increase crop productivity and longevity, especially in soils with subsurface cohesive horizons. The objective of this study was to evaluate the root distribution of ‘Hamlim’ sweet orange grafted onto Rangpur lime. The 15 year-old plants were located in a coastal plain soil toposequence in Sapeaçu county, Bahia, Brazil. The soils were an argisolic Yellow Latosol (LAx; Oxisol) and a Yellow Argisol (PAx; Ultisol), both cohesive, and a non-cohesive Gray Argisol (PAC; […]

Soils with a planic B horizon underlying a textural B horizon and, therefore, not regarded as Planosols in the Brazilian System of Soil Classification (SIBCS) were characterized and classified. Three representative soil profiles were selected in the county of Ouricuri, Araripina micro-region, within the Sertão Zone of Pernambuco State, an area with a high density of planossolic soils. Soil profiles were morphologically described and disturbed samples taken from each horizon for physical and chemical analyses. Undisturbed samples were collected to […]

A detailed macro- and micromorphological investigation was carried out in two Ultisol (Argissolo Amarelo) and one Aridisol (Planossolo Nátrico) profile from a tableland surface of the San Francisco river basin in Petrolina, Pernambuco State, Northeastern Brazil. The study aimed to characterize the soils micromorphologically, evaluating their pedogenesis to help understand the soil diversity in the landscape. Results indicate that the three soils were developed from Post-Cretaceous sediments mixed with Pre-Cambrian crystalline rock weathered materials and, also, most probably, with materials […]