Cotton (Sinop, MT- Brazil)

Study details

  • Research institution: NEMABIO, Agronomic Research
  • Researcher: Dr. Claudinei Kappes)
  • Date: 2023
  • Location: Sinop, MT - Brazil
  • Crop variety: TMG 44 B2RF – 11 seeds/meter
  • Soil: Dystrophic Red-Yellow Latosol (Oxisol) consisting of clay (49.8%), sand (32.5%) and silt: 17.7%
  • Soil pH: 5.7 (CaCl2)
  • Additional soil information: OM 24.3 g/dm3; P 28.9 mg/dm3; K 91.6 mg/dm3 S 25 mg/dm3; Ca 4.1 cmolc/dm3; Mg 1.6 cmolc/dm3; B 0.23 mg/dm3; Cu 0.5 mg/dm3; Mn 0.5 mg/dm3; Zn 3.4 mg/dm3; Fe 60 mg/dm3
  • ​Fertilizer: Granubor® and acidulated ulexite
  • Trial design: Randomized complete block with four repetitions
  • Metrics: Yield (kg/ha), B content in the leaves, and B content in the soil (after harvest). Plant stand evaluation to ensure consistent stand in each replication

Results

  1. The application of 3.0 kg/ha of boron broadcast at the time of sowing in soil with low availability of the element, provided a higher yield of seed cotton, whose percentage increase was 5.28% in comparison to the control treatment (increase of 267.9 kg/ha).
  2. Applications of increasing doses of boron linearly increased the content of the element in the leaf and soil, the lowest values were verified in the control, which did not receive an application of boron.
 

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