Residual effect of nitrogen fertilization and Azospirillum brasilense inoculation in the maize culture

• Autor(a) principal: Novakowiski, Jaqueline Huzar
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Sandini, Itacir Eloi, Falbo, Margarete Kimie, Moraes, Aníbal de, Novakowiski, Jackson Huzar, Cheng, Nicole Colombari
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Semina. Ciências Agrárias (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semagrarias/article/view/4400
• topic: Zea mays L.; Diazotrophic bacteria; Nitrogen biological fixation; Nitrogen fertilization.; Zea mays L.; Bactérias diazotróficas; Fixação biológica de nitrogênio; Adubação nitrogenada.

The diazotrophic bacteria Azospirillum brasilense is an organism able to fix nitrogen of atmosphere and produce plant hormones. Nevertheless, there is lack of information with regard to use in field conditions, especially in production systems that have presence of animals in a determined year period. The objective of paper was to evaluate the association of the nitrogen residual effect of fertilization in pasture winter and the inoculation with A. brasilense in the maize culture. Were carried two experiments in Guarapuava (PR) in season 2008/09 with randomized block design with split plots in three replication. The main parcel consisted of application 5 levels of N (0, 75, 150, 225 e 300 kg ha-1) in pasture of black oat and ryegrass occupied by bovines and 4 treatments in the maize (T1 = control; T2 = inoculation of A. brasilense; T3 = 75 kg ha-1 of N; T4 = 150 kg ha-1 of N). Were evaluated: plants population, ears per plant, productivity, mass thousand grains, damage grains, row per ear and grains per row. There was residual effect of nitrogen applied in the pasture on maize culture. The mass thousand grains and the number of rows per ear of maize presented quadratic response for increase of nitrogen level in the pasture. The inoculation of A. brasilense provided higher productivity than control same with increase the nitrogen level applied in the pasture, with quadratic response in the experiment 1 and linear in the experiment 2.