Abstract
ABSTRACTThe expansion of agricultural activity in the Cerrado biome raises the importance of building soil fertility in micronutrients, however, the dynamics of these elements in different soil classes remains to be understood. The objective aimed to evaluate the availability of boron (B) in the soil in function of sources and incubation times to build the fertility of Oxisol and Entisol (Quartzipsamment). The experimental design was completely randomized with 50 treatments obtained in a 5 × 10 factorial scheme, being: five sources (boric acid, sodium octaborate, sodium tetraborate, boron oxide, and boron oxisulphate) and ten incubation times (0, 5, 10, 15, 25, 40, 55, 70, 85 and 100 days), with three repetitions. For all sources, the applied B dose was 4.0 mg dm−3 in soil samples of 0.5 dm3, with pH corrected to 6.0. In the two soils evaluated, borate fertilization promoted significant effects (p ≤ 0.05) on the availability of B and the efficiency of fertilization over the incubation time. The highest levels of B available in soils resulted from the use of less soluble sources, representing a fertilization efficiency above 75% when using boron oxisulphate in the Oxisol and greater than 85% with the use of boron oxide in the Entisol. The sources of greater solubility achieved an average efficiency of 10.66%. It is concluded that fertilization with borate sources affects the availability of boron to the building of soil fertility, however, the most soluble ones are less efficient to maintain good availability (>0.5 mg dm−3) after 40 days of application.
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