Synergy between zeolites and leguminous cover crops improved olive tree performance and soil properties in a rainfed olive orchard

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Autor(a) principal: Martins, Sandra
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: Brito, Cátia, Silva, Ermelinda, Gonçalves, Alexandre, Arrobas, Margarida, Pereira, Ermelinda, Rodrigues, M.A., Nunes, Fernando M., Correia, Carlos M.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/29343
Resumo: Soil degradation and climate change are threatening the sustainability of Mediterranean olive orchards, typically grown under rainfed conditions and conventional soil tillage. Thus, implementing sustainable soil management practices is crucial to preserve soil health and mitigate the negative effects on plant performance. In this study, we assessed the effects of conventional tillage (T), an early maturing and self-reseeding annual legume cover crop (LC) and its combination with natural zeolites (ZL) on plant physiological performance, tree nutritional status, crop yield, and soil physicochemical and microbiological properties. Although both LC and ZL enhanced the photosynthetic activity, tree nutritional status, soil moisture and olive yield relative to T, ZL was clearly more efficient at improving some soil health indicators, namely at the 0–10 cm soil layer, once soil acidity decreased and Kjeldahl N, extractable P and B, cation exchange capacity and microbiological activity increased, as evidenced by the higher concentrations of easily extractable and total glomalin-related soil protein, microbial biomass carbon, microbial biomass quotient, and actinomycetes. Therefore, using natural zeolite with leguminous cover crops appears to be a promising strategy of sustainable soil management in rainfed olive orchards, as it is able to provide numerous ecosystem services.
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spelling Synergy between zeolites and leguminous cover crops improved olive tree performance and soil properties in a rainfed olive orchardClimate changeLeguminous cover cropsOlive treeSoil tillageSustainable soilmanagementZeolitesSoil degradation and climate change are threatening the sustainability of Mediterranean olive orchards, typically grown under rainfed conditions and conventional soil tillage. Thus, implementing sustainable soil management practices is crucial to preserve soil health and mitigate the negative effects on plant performance. In this study, we assessed the effects of conventional tillage (T), an early maturing and self-reseeding annual legume cover crop (LC) and its combination with natural zeolites (ZL) on plant physiological performance, tree nutritional status, crop yield, and soil physicochemical and microbiological properties. Although both LC and ZL enhanced the photosynthetic activity, tree nutritional status, soil moisture and olive yield relative to T, ZL was clearly more efficient at improving some soil health indicators, namely at the 0–10 cm soil layer, once soil acidity decreased and Kjeldahl N, extractable P and B, cation exchange capacity and microbiological activity increased, as evidenced by the higher concentrations of easily extractable and total glomalin-related soil protein, microbial biomass carbon, microbial biomass quotient, and actinomycetes. Therefore, using natural zeolite with leguminous cover crops appears to be a promising strategy of sustainable soil management in rainfed olive orchards, as it is able to provide numerous ecosystem services.This research was funded by a doctoral fellowship under the Doctoral Program “Agricultural Production Chains—from fork to farm” (PD/00122/2012) provided by the FCT-Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology to S. Martins (PD/BD/135327/2017) and by the Operational Group “Novas práticas em olivais de sequeiro: estratégias de mitigação e adaptação às alterações climáticas”, funded by PT2020 and European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD). The authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) and FEDER under Program PT2020 for their financial support to CQ-VR (UIDB/00616/2020), CIMO (UIDB/00690/2020) and CITAB (UIDB/04033/2020) and also to the AgriFood XXI Project, No. NORTE-01-0145-FEDER- 000041, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the North Regional Operational (NORTE) Program 2014–2020.MDPIBiblioteca Digital do IPBMartins, SandraBrito, CátiaSilva, ErmelindaGonçalves, AlexandreArrobas, MargaridaPereira, ErmelindaRodrigues, M.A.Nunes, Fernando M.Correia, Carlos M.2024-01-24T12:28:40Z20232023-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/29343engMartins, Sandra; Brito, Cátia; Silva, Ermelinda; Gonçalves, Alexandre; Arrobas, Margarida; Pereira, Ermelinda; Rodrigues, Manuel Angelo; Nunes, Fernando M.; Correia, Carlos M. (2023). Synergy between zeolites and leguminous cover crops improved olive tree performance and soil properties in a rainfed olive orchard. Agronomy. eISSN 2073-4395. 13:11, p. 1-1910.3390/agronomy131126742073-4395info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-13T01:21:35Zoai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/29343Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T01:58:56.729831Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Synergy between zeolites and leguminous cover crops improved olive tree performance and soil properties in a rainfed olive orchard
title Synergy between zeolites and leguminous cover crops improved olive tree performance and soil properties in a rainfed olive orchard
spellingShingle Synergy between zeolites and leguminous cover crops improved olive tree performance and soil properties in a rainfed olive orchard
Martins, Sandra
Climate change
Leguminous cover crops
Olive tree
Soil tillage
Sustainable soilmanagement
Zeolites
title_short Synergy between zeolites and leguminous cover crops improved olive tree performance and soil properties in a rainfed olive orchard
title_full Synergy between zeolites and leguminous cover crops improved olive tree performance and soil properties in a rainfed olive orchard
title_fullStr Synergy between zeolites and leguminous cover crops improved olive tree performance and soil properties in a rainfed olive orchard
title_full_unstemmed Synergy between zeolites and leguminous cover crops improved olive tree performance and soil properties in a rainfed olive orchard
title_sort Synergy between zeolites and leguminous cover crops improved olive tree performance and soil properties in a rainfed olive orchard
author Martins, Sandra
author_facet Martins, Sandra
Brito, Cátia
Silva, Ermelinda
Gonçalves, Alexandre
Arrobas, Margarida
Pereira, Ermelinda
Rodrigues, M.A.
Nunes, Fernando M.
Correia, Carlos M.
author_role author
author2 Brito, Cátia
Silva, Ermelinda
Gonçalves, Alexandre
Arrobas, Margarida
Pereira, Ermelinda
Rodrigues, M.A.
Nunes, Fernando M.
Correia, Carlos M.
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Biblioteca Digital do IPB
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Martins, Sandra
Brito, Cátia
Silva, Ermelinda
Gonçalves, Alexandre
Arrobas, Margarida
Pereira, Ermelinda
Rodrigues, M.A.
Nunes, Fernando M.
Correia, Carlos M.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Climate change
Leguminous cover crops
Olive tree
Soil tillage
Sustainable soilmanagement
Zeolites
topic Climate change
Leguminous cover crops
Olive tree
Soil tillage
Sustainable soilmanagement
Zeolites
description Soil degradation and climate change are threatening the sustainability of Mediterranean olive orchards, typically grown under rainfed conditions and conventional soil tillage. Thus, implementing sustainable soil management practices is crucial to preserve soil health and mitigate the negative effects on plant performance. In this study, we assessed the effects of conventional tillage (T), an early maturing and self-reseeding annual legume cover crop (LC) and its combination with natural zeolites (ZL) on plant physiological performance, tree nutritional status, crop yield, and soil physicochemical and microbiological properties. Although both LC and ZL enhanced the photosynthetic activity, tree nutritional status, soil moisture and olive yield relative to T, ZL was clearly more efficient at improving some soil health indicators, namely at the 0–10 cm soil layer, once soil acidity decreased and Kjeldahl N, extractable P and B, cation exchange capacity and microbiological activity increased, as evidenced by the higher concentrations of easily extractable and total glomalin-related soil protein, microbial biomass carbon, microbial biomass quotient, and actinomycetes. Therefore, using natural zeolite with leguminous cover crops appears to be a promising strategy of sustainable soil management in rainfed olive orchards, as it is able to provide numerous ecosystem services.
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