Volume 24, Number 2, 2000

Black oat provides an excellent soil cover, and is a preferential winter crop mainly before soybean cultivation in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of black oat straw management on soil cover, soybean emergency, soil temperature and soil water content. The experiment was carried out during 1997/98, at the Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria (RS), on a Typic Hapludalf soil. A completely randomized block design was used in a […]

The no-tillage system with grain crops occupies today 2.5 millions hectares in the state of Paraná. Besides the traditional rotation system with wheat and soybean, in many areas green manure cover crops are also sown in the Winter and corn in the Summer. The objective of this study was to evaluate changes in some of the soil chemical properties after eight years under the crop rotation systems: wheat-soybean-black oat-soybean (WOS), wheat-soybean-lupine-corn-black oat-soybean (LCO), lupine-corn-wheat-soybean (LC) and compare them with the […]

Enhanced degradation of the fungicide metalaxyl was investigated in two soils: a gley humic (GH) and a Dark Red Latosol (LE), collected at sites never exposed to the fungicide. The soil samples were treated with successive applications of metalaxyl as a commercial formulation and 14C-metalaxyl in laboratory. Metalaxyl biodegradation was analyzed during 63 days by means of radiometric techniques to verify biomineralization and degradation product formation from the applied 14C-metalaxyl. Although biomineralization (maximum of 14 and 8% in the GH […]