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- Title
Production of basic potato seed minitubers in substrate and different nitrogen rates.
- Authors
dos Santos Souza, Carla de Bem; Rezende Fontes, Paulo Cezar; Alvarenga Moreira, Marialva; Puiatti, Mário; Prieto Martinez, Herminia Emilia; Fontes Araújo, Roberto
- Abstract
The optimal dose of nitrogen (N) in potato crop depends on the production system. The objective of this study was to determine the optimal dose of N for the production of basic potato seed minitubers and evaluate the effect of N rates on physiological and nitrogen indices in the youngest fully developed leaf (fourth leaf) and in the oldest leaf of the plants at 60 days after planting. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse at the Departamento de Fitotecnia da Universidade Federal de Viçosa. The treatments consisted of five N rates (0, 45, 90, 180 and 360 mg dm-3), with 10% of each dose applied at planting and the remainder through irrigation water, daily, for 30 days. The nitrogen rates positively influenced the physiological indices (length, width, leaf area, number of leaves, fresh mass and dry mass) and nitrogen (level and content of N and N-NO³ in the dry mass and SPAD) both in the fourth leaf and in the oldest leaf. Likewise, the N rates positively influenced the number and mass of harvested tubers. The largest number (5.44 tubers/plant) and the maximum mass of tubers (243.5 g/plant) were obtained with 360.0 and 332.9 mg N dm-3, respectively. Therefore, the mass and number of tubers were not optimized by the same N rate. The critical SPAD index was 38.8 in the fourth leaf, which was more sensitive to the effect of N rates than the oldest leaf.
- Subjects
CROPS; NITROGEN; POTATO growing; EFFECT of nitrogen on plants; LEAVES; TUBERS
- Publication
Revista Ceres, 2012, Vol 59, Issue 6, p850
- ISSN
0034-737X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/s0034-737x2012000600016