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This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. Authors JSC and LCM performed data
collection in the field, the statistical analysis, wrote the protocol and wrote the first draft of the
manuscript. Authors JHSL, EVR and GAF managed the study analysis, data analysis and helped in
the execution of the project. Authors BHDNN and HPO managed the literature searches, translation of
the manuscript, all revisions and general corrections together with authors GCA and RRS guided the
students during the work. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Article Information
DOI: 10.9734/IJPSS/2020/v32i130239
Editor(s):
(1) Dr. Olowoake Adebayo Abayomi, Kwara State University, Nigeria.
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(1) Auges Gatabazi, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
(2) Garba Omar, Bayero University, Nigeria.
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ABSTRACT
The availability of P in Cerrado soils is a limiting factor for the satisfactory development of crops. It
is known that the efficiency of phosphate fertilization is low and depends on several factors, such
as solubility of fertilizers, soil texture, and soil acidity. Thus, the objective of this work was to
evaluate the availability of phosphorus as a function of different phosphate sources under the
influence of pH, as well as to determine its fertilization efficiency in a red latosol. The experiment
was carried out in a greenhouse at Tocantins federal university, in DIC, Brazil was used, in a
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3 x 5 + 1 scheme. A red-yellow Latosol was used and three sources of phosphate fertilization were
evaluated: Mono-ammonic phosphate - MAP, single superphosphate - SS and Natural phosphate -
FN, plus one treatment without fertilization, in five evaluation periods (0, 7, 14, 21 and 28 days).
Therefore, the pH in CaCl2 of the soil stabilized between (5.5 – 6.5) in approximately 83 days of
incubation with the acidity concealer. The SS and MAP phosphate fertilizers promoted the highest
available P contents, with 6.32 and 6.23 mg.d m−3, respectively. The use of FN showed low P levels
during the evaluated incubation period, mainly due to its lower solubility.
According to the last survey of Conab [2], Liming and phosphate fertilization are practices
soybean production in the Cerrado represents used in the management of fertility, where the
78% of the amount produced in Brazil. The yield of crops is raised, especially in the regions
region comprised of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí, where acidic and deficient soils in phosphorus
and Bahia (MATOPIBA) is responsible for 12% of are excelled [9]. The correction made with
Brazilian production, with the expected increase limestone elevates the contents of Ca and Mg,
in the coming years. decreasing or even eliminating the exchangeable
Al, and with this practice increases the negative
The soil classes with the highest representatives loads in these soils. These chemical alterations
of the region are the Latosols, Neossols, that occur in the soil may, however, influence
Argissols, Plinthosols, lytic soil and Cambisols some physical properties of the soil, by altering
[4]. Of these, the Latosols class occupies the the electrochemical behavior of the colloids [10].
largest territorial extension reaching 46% of the
total Cerrado area, with great potential for Phosphorus is one of the macro-nutrients less
agriculture [5,6]. The Latosols comprise soils that demanded by plants, but its low availability in the
present an advanced stage of tempering, soil limits production, mainly in annual crops.
consisting of mineral material, with a horizon More than 90% of the soil analyses in Brazil
diagnosis of the Latosol B immediately below any show a deficiency of this nutrient, with emphasis
of the types of horizons, except the hystic. on the Cerrado soils, where the contents of this
Generally, acidic soils, low clay content, low element are even smaller, reaching the worrying
-3
organic matter content, present colloidal material values of 1 mg dm [11]. The P dynamics in
with low ability to exchange cations (CTC) and Cerrado soils is quite complex due to its
low natural fertility, emphasizing phosphorus (P) chemical characteristic, favoring great interaction
and potassium (K) [4]. with the soil, such as P adsorption to Fe and Al
Oxy-hydroxides, which are predominant in the
The amount of available nutrients found in the Latosols, which is the most representative class
soils in the form available to plants is one of the of soil in tropic regions [12]. This process can
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Table 1. Chemical and Physical (0 – 20 cm) initial attributes of the red-yellow latosol.
Gurupi – TO, 2018
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The data obtained will be submitted to variance in the soil or added to it and also the
analysis and later the media will be compared by assimilation of nutrients by the plants.
Tukey's test using the Software Sisvar 6.5 [18] Therefore, liming is a decisive factor in the
adopting 1 and 5% probability of error. The efficiency of fertilization, since most Brazilian
graphics will be plotted using the program soils have a considerable degree of acidity
®
SigmaPlot version 10 [19]. [21]. The solubility of phosphate fertilizers is
also influenced by soil pH, that is, the degree
The fertilization efficiency with the sources was of acidity determines the flow of P release to
calculated based on Eq. 1. the soil solution. For acidulated phosphate
( )
fertilizers, such as MAP and SS, the pH range
E ic. (%) = ∗ 100 (1) close to neutrality and considered ideal for plants
(5.5 – 6.5) is that they present maximum
Where: P sample P content available after solubility efficiency of P. Already in acidic
treatments (mg/dm ),
-3 condition, the nutrient available by these
P initial P content available in the initial sources are quickly adsorbed by the colloids of
condition (mg/dm-3) and the soil, and may not make them available to
P added P dosage of applied p (26.20 the plants. Low solubility fertilizers, such as
mg/dm-3). reactive natural phosphates, require the action
+
of H in the soil so that their orthophosphates
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION are released to the solution. Therefore, for
the natural phosphates, the increase of the pH
The analysis of variance and significance level, to close to neutrality decreases its power
as well as the general mean and coefficient of of solubilization of P for the solution of the soil
variation for the characteristics P content and pH [22].
values, is presented in Table 2. For P contents,
there was a significant effect (p ≤ 0.01) for The treatments with the highest P content
sources of variation, sources, epoch and available in the soil were SS and MAP, with 6.32
-3
interaction, and between source and epoch. The and 6.23 mg dm of P, respectively, which
same result was observed for the pH values, represents a superiority of 68.35 and 67.89% in
except for the source. There is a low coefficient relation to the treatment with FN (2.0 mg.dm-3).
of variation for P and pH values in this study, Moreover, the SS and MAP treatments when
which, according to Silva et al. [20], compared to the treatment without fertilization
demonstrates homogeneous results for both presented superiority of 72.62 and 72.23%. In
traits. relation to the FN, this presented P content
available 13.5% higher than the treatment
The soil pH (CaCl2), regardless of the source without the addition of P. Regarding P levels in
of P applied, obtained a quadratic response due relation to different epochs, the MAP treatment
to the days of evaluation after the liming with 6 responded significantly. At 7 days after
t ha-1 (Fig. 1). The phosphate sources did not fertilization, P levels were higher than 85.71% in
influence the soil pH, because the values in relation to 0 days. However, the nutrient release
these treatments are equal to the values found peak occurred between 14 and 21 days. After 28
for the treatment without application of P. The pH days the contents showed a decrease being
th
(CaCl2) of the soil increased on average up to 72 close to the values recorded on the 7 day.
days after the liming (6 t ha-1), and thus obtained
an increase of 29.8% in relation to the beginning For the SS, the epoch that presented the highest
of the experiment. P contents was at 14, 21 and 28 days, statically
equal to each other, these times resulted in an
Liming provided neutralization of soil acidity and increase of 86.83%, 86.73%, and 86.65% higher
it was verified that despite the decrease of pH when compared to the treatment represented for
with 72 days, the applied lime continued reacting day zero. Similarly, to the SS, the treatment
the acidity until the end of incubation, this represented by the FN had a maximum release
happens due to the buffer power of the soil that of P at 14, 21 and 28 days, equal statically, with
has strong capacity of to resist pH change, results 65.20, 64.28 and 63.60% higher than the
according to Lopes [8]. control, represented by the time zero. It is also
worth noting that at 7 days, the P content in the
Soil pH is of fundamental importance because it soil did not change, being statistically equal to
determines the availability of nutrients contained the control treatment.
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Table 2. Analysis of variance, level of significance, general mean and coefficient of variation
related to phosphorus content (p), and pH as a function of phosphate fertilizer sources (MAP,
SS and FN, and 120 kg-1 there of P205), Gurupi-TO, 2018
Fig. 1. PH values (CaCl) in the different sources of phosphate fertilization (MAP, SS, and FN)
as a function of incubation time
However, the treatment without fertilization days and the nutrient release peak, followed by a
(control), also had positive results at 14, 21 and decline in the next 21 and 28 days periods. The
28 days, with results 68.28, 71.87, and 65.05% SS obtained a higher release with 14 days and
higher when compared to the time 0 days. In maintained the peak release in the period from
relation to the control, there is an increase in P 21 to 28 days.
levels as the incubation time increases, the
highest levels were observed at 14, 21 and 28 Therefore, for the improvement of P fertility in this
days. There is a small reduction in P levels at 28 study for the average level, it is necessary to
days, but this reduction was not statistically apply120 kg of P2O5 [25]. For the efficiency of P
significant. (Fig. 3), there was also a significant difference
between the fertilizer sources and the evaluation
According to Monteiro [23], the best result time.
presented by the SS in this work may have been
due to its high solubility in water and for being a The treatments that had higher fertilization
relatively fast action fertilizer. For Reis [24], this efficiencies were SS and MAP, with 28.10 and
does not happen with FN because it presents low 27.67%, respectively. These treatments had
solubility of P in the soil as a function of epoch. results 75.18 and 74.67% higher compared with
the treatment of absence of P, which presented
In this study, it was observed that the MAP had a 7.05% efficiency. In acidic soils, FN is more
faster phosphorus solubilization behavior with 14 efficient in solubilizing P, and with this, it
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presented lower results when compared to other 26.73, 25.93 and 3.51%, respectively, being
fertilization, being slightly higher than the better to the treatment with absence of
treatment that had an absence of P, but without fertilization, which also presented a slight
statistical difference. increase in P content over time. The increase in
P availability in the treatment with the absence of
When it comes to efficiency in relation to different fertilization probably occurred due to the
eras, the evaluation performed at 7 days after neutralization of soil acidity by means of liming,
fertilization obtained an efficiency of the promoting the best solubilization of the nutrient
treatments MAP, SS, FN that corresponded to as pH reached the ideal levels [13].
Fig. 2. For the phosphorus contents, there was a significant difference between the fertilization
sources and the evaluation time
Fig. 3. The efficiency of different sources of phosphate fertilizers as a function of sources and
epochs
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28.97 and 10.01% efficiency, respectively, being Deposition of plant residues, light organic
relevant when compared to the treatment with an matter, carbon and nitrogen stocks and
absence of fertilization that obtained 8.36% remaining phosphorus under different
efficiency. With 21 days, the MAP, SS, and FN management systems in the Cerrado
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