The application of pig slurry may have a different effect on nitrogen dynamics in soil compared to mineral fertilization. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine the different forms of organic N in a Latossolo Vermelho distroférrico (Typic Hapludox) and their relationship to N uptake by crops in response to 10 years of annual application of pig slurry and mineral fertilizer. The treatments were application rates of 0, 25, 50, 100, and 200 m3 ha-1 of pig slurry, […]

Incorporation of rice straw into the soil just before flooding for water-seeded rice can immobilize mineral nitrogen (N) and lead to the production of acetic acid harmful to the rice seedlings, which negatively affects grain yield. This study aimed to evaluate the formation of organic acids and variation in pH and to quantify the mineral N concentration in the soil as a function of different times of incorporation of rice straw or of ashes from burning the straw before flooding. […]

Nitrogen accumulation in corn plant is highly influenced by N content in soil and by rate of its absorption by plant in a given growing stage. In order to compare the effects of N application methods on N accumulation and dry matter production by corn plant, an experiment was carried out in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, over the 1998/99 growing season. Treatments consisted of two levels of water availability, one adequate to corn crop needs and […]

Wheat tiller number and survival and ear and grain production as affected by nitrogen supply were studied in cv.Embrapa 16 in three field experiments at Estação Experimental Agronômica (UFRGS), in Eldorado do Sul, RS, during 1995, 1997 and 1998.The first-year treatment consisted in applying 40kgha-1 of N in different plant stages (emergence to 5th leaf stage), followed or not by an extra N-supply at the 7th leaf stage. In 1997 and 1998, different N rates were applied at plant emergence, […]