Biomass and Nutrient Accumulation of Cover Crops in the Crop Off-season in Cerrado, in Goiás State, Brazil

Autor:	Fabiano André Petter, Glenio Guimarães Santos, Marinete Martins de Sousa Medeiros, Rodrigo Fonseca da Silva, Francisco de Alcantara Neto, Wéverson Lima Fonseca, Leandro Pereira Pacheco, Leandro dos Santos Soares, Fernandes Antônio de Almeida
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Crop Biomass (ecology) Brachiaria ruziziensis biology Agronomy Oxisol Randomized block design Sowing biology.organism_classification Cover crop Pennisetum
Zdroj:	Journal of Agricultural Science. 4
ISSN:	1916-9760 1916-9752
Popis:	The objective of this work was to evaluate the performance of cover crops as for biomass production and nutrient accumulation during the crop off-season in an oxisol in Cerrado, in Goias State, Brazil. The experiment was performed in Rio Verde, GO, Brazil, from November, 2007 to October, 2008. It was used a randomized block design, with plots divided according to time, with cover crops, and subplots, concerning biomass sampling, with four repetitions. The evaluated cover crops were: Brachiaria ruziziensis , Pennisetum glaucum and B. ruziziensis + Cajanus cajan , and as a reference, fallow treatment with sponteneous species. The biomass samples were collected five times, since the desiccation date of P. glaucum , 60 days after cover crop sowing, which occurred on June, 12 th , 2008. The P. glaucum has shown the greatest amount of biomass and nutrient accumulation at 60 days after sowing, while the B. brizantha , B. ruziziensis and B. ruziziensis + C. cajan have shown significant accumulation in the end of the crop off-season.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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