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Understanding the role of N-fixing leguminous trees for phosphorus (P) cycling in highly weathered tropical soils is relevant for the conservation of natural forests as well as the sustainable management of agroforests and forest plantations with low P input in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest region. We hypothesized that N-fixing leguminous trees can increase the availability of soil P by exploiting different P sources without causing a depletion of soil organic P due to efficient biogeochemical cycling, but empirical evidence remains scarce. For this purpose, 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (31P NMR) was used for quantifying soil P forms and the Hedley sequential extraction to determine soil P fractions. The studied sites were forestry systems with leguminous trees: mixed forest plantations with different proportions of fast-growing N-fixing leguminous trees; pure plantations, and agroforestry systems with leguminous trees. The results show that all N-fixing leguminous trees and N mineral fertilization positively affected the concentrations of available soil P in relation to the control treatments. There were increases of all P fractions through cycling in all forest sites. 31P NMR spectra clearly identified and quantified that a large amount of phosphomonoesters followed by phosphodiesters in the form of DNA, as well as high reserves of Pi species (ortho-P and pyrophosphate) in the first eleven years of growth at pure plantations, mixed plantations or agroforests. The relations between both ortho-P and DNA with the resin-Pi, NaHCO3-Pi and NaOH-Pi fractions suggest that both analysis methods provide complementary information about the soil P transformations. Thus, the paper highlights the importance of the use of different N-fixing leguminous tree species under different environmental conditions, production systems and management practices for recovering heavily degraded areas, which may be a suitable strategy through efficient management of P in highly weathered tropical soils in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biome.
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Fabaceae , Suelo , Árboles , Brasil , Bosques , Nitrógeno , Fósforo , Clima TropicalRESUMEN
Objetivando analisar o número de subcultivos que permita a multiplicação do morangueiro, sem que ocorram alterações nas características fenotípicas dos clones submetidos a esse processo, explantes dos genótipos 'Aromas', 'Camarosa' e 'Camino Real' foram submetidos, em uma primeira etapa, a 12 ciclos de subcultivos in vitro e, no ano seguinte, explantes dos mesmos genótipos, das mesmas plantas matrizes, foram subcultivados por três ciclos. Após a fase de aclimatização, as mudas foram transplantadas para canteiros, e o experimento conduzido segundo delineamento em blocos casualizados em esquema fatorial 3x2 (genótipos e níveis de subcultivos). As características avaliadas foram: altura da planta e comprimento da raiz (cm), massas fresca e seca da parte aérea e da raiz (g) e número de estolões por planta. Na avaliação a campo das características fenotípicas, não foram observadas diferenças significativas entre os dois níveis de subcultivos. As cultivares 'Camarosa' e 'Camino Real' apresentaram maior variação entre os dois níveis de subcultivos, sendo as maiores variações observadas em plantas submetidas a três subcultivos. Com 12 subcultivos in vitro de plantas de morangueiro, das cultivares 'Aromas', 'Camarosa' e 'Camino Real', é possível obter maior número de mudas micropropagadas sem alterações nas características fenotípicas. A cultivar 'Aromas' apresentou uma maior estabilidade nas características fenotípicas estudadas em relação aos diferentes ciclos de subcultivo in vitro.
In order to increase the availability of healthy strawberry seedlings, this study aimed to analyze the number of subcultures that enables multiplication on a large scale, without the occurrence of changes in phenotypic characteristics of clones through the process of in vitro micropropagation. In a first step, explants of the cultivars 'Aromas', 'Camarosa' and 'Camino Real', at the Laboratory of Plant Tissue Culture, were submitted to twelve subculture cycles, and in the following year, explants of the same cultivars, from the same mother plants, were subcultured for three cycles. The acclimatization and evaluation of the plants in the field were conducted in a greenhouse at the Horticulture Sector of the Instituto of Agronomia of the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro. The experimental design was randomized blocks in a 3x2 factorial, (genotypes and subculture levels). The characteristics evaluated were plant height and root length (cm), fresh mass and dry mass of shoots and roots (g) and number of stolons per plant. In the field evaluation, no differences between the two levels of subcultures were observed. Cultivars 'Camarosa' and 'Camino Real' showed the highest variation between the two levels of subcultures, with the greatest variations observed in plants subjected to three subcultures. With twelve in vitro subcultures of strawberry plants, of cultivars 'Aromas', 'Camarosa' and 'Camino Real', it is possible to obtain greater number of plantlets without changes in phenotypic characteristics. The cultivar 'Aromas' showed greater stability in phenotypic characteristics studied in relation to different cycles of in vitro subculture.