Vegetative Waste Management on Sugarcane Yield and Industrial Quality

Autor: Cristiane de Conti Medina, Gisele Silva de Aquino, Adônis Moreira, Deise Akemi Omori Kussaba, Ana Carolina Benitez Cunha
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 50:132-140
ISSN: 1532-2416
0010-3624
DOI: 10.1080/00103624.2018.1556279
Popis: Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) has economic importance in tropical and/or subtropical regions, because of the high sucrose content for cost-effective sugar and ethanol production. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of vegetative waste on crop yield and industrial quality of the sugarcane. The experiment was carried out in a Kaolinitic Typic Eutrorthox, loamy texture, using the following six treatments: no fire, but leaving 0, 5, 10, 15, and 20 Mg ha−1 of straw mulch without trash incorporation, and sugarcane with burning and manual cutting before the harvesting, with four replicates. We evaluated total stalk yield (TSY) and industrial quality based on the apparent sucrose contents in the stalks (Pol), fibers, apparent purity (AP), reducing sugar (RS), and total recoverable sugar (TRS). The TSY after harvest, industrial quality at 180 and 240 days after harvest (DAH) and at the pre-harvest (350 days DAH) were also evaluated. The vegetative wastes had no influence in industrial q...
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