Soil salinity, micronutrients and passion fruit production irrigated with saline water and using organomineral fertilization

Authors

  • José Thyago Aires Souza Instituto Nacional do Semiárido, 58434-700, Campina Grande – Paraíba, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1508-1136
  • Lourival Ferreira Cavalcante Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Agronomia, 58397-000, Areia-Paraíba, Brasil Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Salinidade, 60440-554, Fortaleza-Ceará, Brasil
  • Jarisson Cavalcante Nunes Universidade Estadual da Região Tocantina do Maranhão, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Naturais e Letras, 65900-000, Imperatriz-Maranhão, Brasil
  • Danila Lima Araújo Programa de pós graduação em Agronomia - Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  • Flaviano Fernades Oliveira Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência do Solo, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, 52171-900, Recife-Pernambuco, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14808/sci.plena.2020.070205

Keywords:

Passiflora edulis, potassium chloride, organic input

Abstract

The experiment was conducted in the city of Remigio, Paraiba State, Brazil, from July/2013 to May/2014. The aim of this work is to evaluate the effects of the saline water, bovine biofertilizer and potassium source on soil salinity, micronutrients and sodium contents in the leaf dry matter, and on the production of yellow passion fruit plants cv BRS Gigante Amarelo. The treatments were distributed in randomized blocks subdivided into plots using the factorial scheme 2 × (2 × 2). It refers to the main plot as two different irrigation waters with electrical conductivities of 0.35 and 4.00 dS m-1, and the subplots as the combination between the biofertilizer application and exemption with different potassium sources: the conventional potassium chloride (KCl) and the polymer-coated one. The increase in the electrical conductivity of the irrigation water increased the initial soil salinity from 0.36 to 3.43 and after to 5.43 dS m-1. It also increased the leaf contents of Fe2+ and Na+. The biofertilizer increased the Zn2+ content in the leaf dry matter of the passion fruit plants, while the fertilization with polymer-coated KCl increased the B content and reduced the Mn2+ one as compared to the conventional KCl. The plants, at the beginning of the flowering phase, although their deficiencies of all micronutrients, presented satisfactory productivity levels whether the national average numbers are considered.

Published

2020-08-27

How to Cite

Souza, J. T. A., Cavalcante, L. F., Nunes, J. C., Araújo, D. L., & Oliveira, F. F. (2020). Soil salinity, micronutrients and passion fruit production irrigated with saline water and using organomineral fertilization. Scientia Plena, 16(7). https://doi.org/10.14808/sci.plena.2020.070205