Long-Term Sulfur Fertilization: Effects on Crops and Residual Effects in a No-Till System of Argentinean Pampas
A long-term experiment has been conducted between 2001 and 2008 at Balcarce, Argentina, to determine the effect of sulfur (S) fertilization on S concentration in grains, crop yield, and residual S in soil. Two treatments were evaluated: annual S application to crops (15 kg ha−1; S1) and a control wi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/25767 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/25767 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | S Sulfur Long-Term Fertilization Residual No-Tillage https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.1 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4 |
| Sumario: | A long-term experiment has been conducted between 2001 and 2008 at Balcarce, Argentina, to determine the effect of sulfur (S) fertilization on S concentration in grains, crop yield, and residual S in soil. Two treatments were evaluated: annual S application to crops (15 kg ha−1; S1) and a control with no S fertilization (S0). Sulfur fertilization only increased wheat yield (22% of the crops in the experiment). However, S application increased S concentration in grains in wheat, soybean, and maize (56% of the crops). Although, for all years, the S mass balance was positive for S1 and negative for S0, no differences in soil S extracted as sulfate (S-SO4 −2) content previous to the crop sown were determined. The absence of differences in S accumulation in aboveground vegetative biomass and grain of the maize used as a check also suggest that long-term S fertilization did not affect the soil S availability for crops. |
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