Phosphatase activity in forage grasses as influenced by soil phosphorus availability and plant cutting height
Phosphatase activity in forage grasses as influenced by soil phosphorus availability and plant cutting height
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饲料草中磷酸酶活性受土壤磷有效性和植物切割高度的影响
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2008
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B. N. Ribeiro
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F. N. Nunes;R. B. Cantarutti;R. F. Novais;I. Silva;M. Tótola;B. N. Ribeiro
The nutrient use efficiency, expressed by the ratio between the produced biomass and nutrient content, is an important adaptive characteristic of plants, particularly of those cultivated in low-fertility soils. A high P-use efficiency (PUE) is conferred by high P remobilization rates, i.e., P transport to regions of greater metabolic demand in the plant. High P remobilization rates have been associated with high acid phosphatase (APase) and ribonuclease (RNase) enzyme activities. In our study, we evaluated the activity of these enzymes in Brachiaria decumbens, with a low, and Panicum maximum cv Tanzânia, with a high P demand, cultivated in soil treated with different P rates and cut at different heights. The experiment was carried out in a greenhouse, using B-horizon samples of a clayey Yellow-Red Latosol. The treatments consisted of a factorial combination of two grasses, three P rates (100, 200 and 500 mg dm-3) and three cutting heights: no cutting, 15 and 30 cm above the soil surface for Brachiaria, and no cutting, 20 and 40 cm for Panicum. The experimental units consisted of pots with 10 dm3 soil, with 10 plants each. Results indicated that there was no significant difference between biomass production of the two grasses, but the P application resulted in a higher biomass yield and P shoot concentration. The biomass production of plants cut at a lower height was smaller and P concentrations in shoots were higher. A significant effect of P rates on the APase and the RNase activities was observed in both forages. In plants grown at the lowest P rate enzyme activities and PUE were the highest. The activity of both phosphatases decreased with plant aging. In the treatment with the lowest cutting height, the PUE in both Brachiaria and Panicum plants was lower, independent of the P rate. At the same time, a higher APase and RNase activity was observed, indicating that other mechanisms may be involved in the plant adaptation to low P availability.