Organic compost and potassium top dressing fertilization on production and quality of beetroot
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2015-01-01
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Magro, Felipe Oliveira [UNESP]
da Silva, Ewerton Gasparetto [UNESP]
Takata, William Hiroshi Suekane [UNESP]
Cardoso, Antonio Ismael Inácio [UNESP]
Fernandes, Dirceu Maximino [UNESP]
Evangelista, Regina Marta [UNESP]
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The potassium (K) in top dressing fertilization is used for beetroot production in Brazil. However, most of K studies are made with fertilization before planting, and it is not known the real need of this K top dressing after fertilization with K and organic matter before planting. So this work aimed to evaluate the production and quality of beetroot under different rates of organic compost at planting and K top dressing fertilization. The experiment was carried out in São Manuel-SP, Brazil, with ten treatments (5 x 2 factorial scheme), in a randomized blocks experimental design, with four replications. Five rates (0, 20, 40, 60 and 80 t ha-1) of organic compost applied at planting, in the presence (60 kg ha-1 of K2O) or absence of K top dressing fertilization were evaluated. The traits related to production evaluated were: average weight, diameter and length of roots, yield and K content in shoot and root. For the physicochemical quality of roots, pH, soluble solid content, titratable acidity, index ratio, texture, reducing, non-reducing and total sugar were evaluated. The K top dressing fertilization did not affect the production traits; however, it increases the contents of K in shoot and root and the contents of non-reducing and total sugars. The rates of the compost do not affect the quality traits, but the rate of 49 t ha-1 resulted in the maximum root yield estimated in 43 t ha-1 of roots.
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Beta vulgaris, Organic fertilization, Soluble solid content, Sugars, Yield
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Australian Journal of Crop Science, v. 9, n. 10, p. 962-967, 2015.