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Gypsum recommendations for a typical Dystrophic Red Argisol cropped with Phaseolus vulgaris1 1 Part of the first author’s final paper as a requirement for obtaining the title of Agronomist Engineer at the State University of Maringá.

ABSTRACT

Paraná leads the Brazilian production of beans so that the cultivation system can restrain the root development of the plants. Limestone and agricultural gypsum can be alternatives to stimulate the development of roots, and it is necessary to establish criteria for their use. The objective of this work was to evaluate the development of bean plants subjected to liming and gypsum doses in a typical Dystrophic Red Argisol. The experiment was carried out in Umuarama, state of Paraná in PVC tubes (80 x 15 cm), growing Phaseolus vulgaris cultivar Pérola for 90 days. Treatments consisted of gypsum doses (0, 420, 670, 950, 1140, 1430, 3000, and 5320 kg ha-1) combined or not with lime application, in a factorial design (8 x 2) with four replications. At the end of the cycle, the aerial part of the plants and soil samples were collected for analysis. Gypsum doses benefited bean development, especially when associated with liming, which raised pH, Ca+2, and Mg+2 and reduced Al+3 in the soil. The doses of maximum technical efficiency of gypsum were 3291 and 2991 kg ha-1 for the treatments with and without liming, respectively, also increasing the Ca+2 and available P concentration in the soil.

Keywords
agricultural gypsum; bean; fertilization; liming

INTRODUCTION

The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is an important crop for the state of Paraná as it has been the leading produced in Brazil in recent years, with the southern region holding 20% of the total cropped area and 30.8% of national production in 2022 (SIDRA, 2022SIDRA - Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática (2022) Levantamento sistemático da produção agrícola. Available at: <https://sidra.ibge.gov.br/tabela/1618#resultado>. Accessed on: June 27th, 2022.
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). The form of bean cultivation may imply factors capable of optimizing or reducing crop productivity. In conventional systems, where the soil is turned with a plow and harrow, the reduction in the productive potential can occur due to the chemical, physical and biological degradation of the soil, so the search for conservationist systems capable of minimizing soil mobilization is justified (Torres et al., 2018Torres JLR, Assis RL & Loss A (2018) Evolução entre os sistemas de produção agropecuária no Cerrado: convencional, Barreirão, Santa Fé e Integração Lavoura-Pecuária. Informe Agropecuário, 39:07-17.).

The direct seeding system revolutionized Brazilian agricultural production. This system is characterized by maintaining the cover of crop residues on the surface, which enables to maintain and/or increase of the organic matter and cation exchange capacity (CEC) of the soil. In addition, the effects of erosion are minimized, and the availability of water and nutrients increases, therefore optimizing plant development (Brown et al., 2018Brown V, Barbosa FT, Bertol I, Mafra ÁL & Muzeka LM (2018) Efeitos no solo e nas culturas após vinte anos de cultivo convencional e semeadura direta. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13:01-07.). Over time, the surface action of fertilizers and acidity correctors tends to concentrate on the surface layer (0-10 cm), as these inputs are applied without incorporation into the subsurface, which restrains root growth (Batista et al., 2018Batista MA, Inoue TT, Esper Neto M & Muniz AS (2018) Princípios de fertilidade do solo, adubação e nutrição mineral. In: Brandão-Filho JUT, Freitas PSL, Berian LOS & Goto R (Eds.) Hortaliças-fruto. Maringá, EDUEM. p.113-161.).

Agricultural gypsum can be an alternative to improve soil conditions and increase plant productivity, as it can promote the development of the root system of plants in depth, ensuring better crop performance, because it is capable of providing calcium and sulfur in subsurface layers of the soil due to mobility on soil profile (Zandoná et al., 2015Zandoná RR, Beutler AN, Burg GM, Barreto CF & Schmidt MR (2015) Gesso e calcário aumentam a produtividade e amenizam o efeito do déficit hídrico em milho e soja. Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical, 2:128-137.). Liming promotes an increase in base saturation and soil pH, and gypsum can increase the subsurface calcium and sulfur concentration (Batista et al., 2018Batista MA, Inoue TT, Esper Neto M & Muniz AS (2018) Princípios de fertilidade do solo, adubação e nutrição mineral. In: Brandão-Filho JUT, Freitas PSL, Berian LOS & Goto R (Eds.) Hortaliças-fruto. Maringá, EDUEM. p.113-161.).

Commonly, the result of the chemical analysis of the 20 - 40 cm layer of the soil must be observed for decision-making as to the need or not to apply gypsum, for most crops. The main indicators of the need for gypsum application are the levels of calcium (< 0.4 cmolc dm-3), exchangeable aluminum (> 0.5 cmolc dm-3), and aluminum saturation (> 20%) (Caires & Guimarães, 2018Caires EF & Guimarães AM (2018) A novel phosphogypsum application recommendation method under continuous no‐till management in Brazil. Agronomy Journal, 5:1987-1995.; Lopes & Guimarães, 1999Lopes AS & Guimarães PTG (1999) Recomendações para o uso de corretivos e fertilizantes em Minas Gerais. 5ª ed. Lavras, DFSEMG. 360p.; Raij et al., 2022Raij B, Cantarella H, Quaggio JA & Furlani AMC (2022) Boletim 100: Recomendações de adubação e calagem para o estado de São Paulo. Campinas, IAC. 500p.; Sousa et al., 2005Sousa DMG, Lobato E & Rein TA (2005) Uso do gesso agrícola nos solos do Cerrado. Planaltina, Embrapa Cerrados. 19p.). To explain gypsum, the most used parameters for recommending agricultural gypsum doses are the need for liming, clay percentage, and base saturation (Lopes & Guimarães, 1999Lopes AS & Guimarães PTG (1999) Recomendações para o uso de corretivos e fertilizantes em Minas Gerais. 5ª ed. Lavras, DFSEMG. 360p.; Raij et al., 2022Raij B, Cantarella H, Quaggio JA & Furlani AMC (2022) Boletim 100: Recomendações de adubação e calagem para o estado de São Paulo. Campinas, IAC. 500p.; Ribeiro et al., 1999Ribeiro AC, Guimarães PTG & Alvarez VH (1999) Recomendações para o uso de corretivos e fertilizantes em Minas Gerais. 5ª ed. Viçosa, Comissão de Fertilidade do Solo do Estado de Minas Gerais. 360p.; Sousa et al., 2005Sousa DMG, Lobato E & Rein TA (2005) Uso do gesso agrícola nos solos do Cerrado. Planaltina, Embrapa Cerrados. 19p.; Vitti et al., 2008Vitti GC, Luz PHC, Malavolta E, Dias AS & Serrano CGE (2008) Uso do gesso em sistemas de produção agrícola. Piracicaba, GAPE. 104p.). Caires & Guimarães (2018)Caires EF & Guimarães AM (2018) A novel phosphogypsum application recommendation method under continuous no‐till management in Brazil. Agronomy Journal, 5:1987-1995. describe calcium saturation in the effective CEC (< 54%) as an indicator of the need for gypsum application in soils under no-tillage in southern Brazil, which differs from other criteria for the application of agricultural gypsum developed before the conventional system.

Thus, the criteria established for the application of agricultural gypsum may imply a reduction in the doses, which reduces root development and exploration of the profile in greater depth (> 20 cm), enabling the Optimization of the productive potential of the crop. On the other hand, very high doses of gypsum can cause a chemical imbalance in the soil, which can harm plant development, as observed by Mota Neto et al. (2017)Mota Neto LV, Nolla A, Castaldo JH, Oliveira MS, Suzano GS & Sorace M (2017) Residual da aplicação de calcário e doses de gesso agrícola. Journal of Agronomical Science, 6:13-21., which explains the need for research capable of establishing the dose of maximum technical efficiency for bean cultivation.

For the crop to reach its maximum productive potential, the use of inputs such as agricultural gypsum and limestone in an adequate and complementary way is justified. Thus, the objective of this work was to evaluate the development of beans submitted to the application of limestone and doses of agricultural gypsum, to establish gypsum criteria in an Argisol with a sandy texture in the northwest region of Paraná, Brazil.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

The experiment was conducted in 2021, in an open experimental area, at the State University of Maringá, Regional Campus of Umuarama, state of Paraná. The geographical coordinates of the place are 23°47’26.7 “S and 53°15’24.5” W and an altitude of 401 m. The climate is characterized as Cfa, according to the Köppen classification, with high temperatures and poorly distributed rainfall throughout the year (Aparecido et al., 2016Aparecido LED, Rolim GDS, Richetti J, Souza PSD & Johann JA (2016) Classificações climáticas de Köppen, Thornthwaite e Camargo para o zoneamento climático do Estado do Paraná, Brasil. Ciência e Agrotecnologia, 40:405-417.).

The soil was collected in a native pasture area, with no history of agricultural activities, it was used in the experiment classified as a typical Dystrophic Red Argisol with a sandy texture (Santos et al., 2018Santos HG, Jacomine PKT, Anjos LHC, Oliveira VA, Lumbreras JF, Coelho MR, Almeida JÁ, Araújo Filho JC, Oliveira JB & Cunha TJF (2018) Sistema brasileiro de classificação de solos. 5ª ed. Brasília, Embrapa. 355p.), which originally had pH in CaCl2 = 4.04; Al+3, Ca+2, Mg+2, and T (cation exchange capacity at pH 7.0) concentration of 0.9; 0.75; 0.25 and 5.41 cmolc dm-3 respectively, and potential acidity = 4.28 cmolc dm-3, available P concentration = 4.7 mg dm-3, K = 50.8 mg dm-3, BS = 20.86%, m (aluminum saturation) = 16.64%, sand, silt and clay = 80.75; 0.25 and 19% respectively. Argisol samples were collected at the layer of 0-20 cm and used to fill PVC tubes 80 cm high and 15 cm in diameter, which constituted the experimental units.

The treatments consisted of eight doses of agricultural gypsum (equivalent to 0, 420, 670, 950, 1140, 1430, 3000, and 5320 kg ha-1), established according to the methodologies described in Table 1 for soil layering 20-40 cm deep, combined or not with the lime application. The experimental design was in randomized blocks, arranged in a factorial model (eight doses of agricultural gypsum and two forms of limestone application) with four replications. The application of an acidity corrector occurred together with the application of agricultural gypsum doses, with an incubation period of thirty days until sowing.

Table 1
Methodologies used for the agricultural gypsum dose calculation

The agricultural gypsum used presented 259 g dm-3 CaO, 151 g dm-3 S, 7,48 g dm-3 P2O5 and 17,43% humidity. The acidity corrector used was dolomitic limestone (PRNT 100%), wich presented 25% CaO and 17% MgO, at a dose equivalent to 2680 kg ha-1 to raise the base saturation to 70%, according to the methodology proposed by Pauletti & Motta (2019)Pauletti V & Motta ACV (2019) Manual de calagem e adubação para o estado do Paraná. 2ª ed. Curitiba, NEPAR/SBCS. 289p. for the crop of beans in Paraná.

At sowing, all vases received the same doses of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, equivalent to 205 kg ha-1 of urea, 670 kg ha-1 of simple superphosphate, and 70 kg ha-1 of potassium chloride, as recommended by Pauletti & Motta (2019)Pauletti V & Motta ACV (2019) Manual de calagem e adubação para o estado do Paraná. 2ª ed. Curitiba, NEPAR/SBCS. 289p. for bean cultivation. Bean cultivar BRS Pérola was sown in February 2021, maintaining a population of two plants per tube, which were cultivated for a cycle of 90 days. Soil moisture was maintained through watering using a watering can during dry periods and weed control was carried out by manual pulling, when necessary. The occurrence of anthracnose (Colletotrichum lindemuthianum) was observed 40 days after emergence (DAE), where control was carried out with two fortnightly applications of the combination of strobilurin and triazole at a dose of 500 mL ha-1 with the aid of a manual sprayer, according to the manufacturer’s recommendations.

During the harvest period (90 DAE), the aerial part of the plants was collected and analyzed for aerial part height, stem diameter, fresh and dry mass (dried in an oven at 65 ºC for 72 hours), the mass of one thousand grains, and estimated grain yield. The economic efficiency dose for the application of agricultural gypsum was obtained through the model adapted from Michaelis-Meten (Srinivasan, 2022Srinivasan B (2022) A guide to the Michaelis–Menten equation: steady state and beyond. The FEBS Journal, 20:6086-6098.), according to y=Vmax×xK+x, where: y = grain yield (kg ha-1); x = gypsium doses (kg ha-1); Vmax = max speed of reaction and K = Michaelis-Menten constant. The determination of Vmax and K where ajusted by the Non-linear least squares (NLS), folowing transformations described by Caroll et al. (1987)Caroll RJ, Cressie N & Ruppert D (1987) A transformation/weighting model for estimating Michaelis-Menten parameter. Biometria, 45:349-362.bv, using R statistical software.

The soil of the plots was sampled (0-20 cm) with the aid of a soil auger, because this is where most of the bean root system is concentrated. The soil was dried and sieved (2 mm), and analyzed for pH in CaCl2, exchangeable aluminum concentration, P, K+, Ca+2, and Mg+2, according to the methodology proposed by Teixeira et al. (2017)Teixeira PC, Donagemma GK, Fontana A & Teixeira WG (2017) Manual de métodos de análise de solo. 3ª ed. Brasília, Embrapa. 40p..

The results obtained in this experiment were submitted to analysis of variance (F test). When a significant difference was found, the gypsum doses were subjected to regression analysis, and the forms of limestone application were compared by the T test, both at 5% error probability, using the SISVAR computational package computational (Ferreira, 2019Ferreira DF (2019) Sisvar: A computer analysis system to fixed effects split-plot type designs: Sisvar. Brazilian Journal of Biometrics, 37:529-535.).

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The use of limestone as an acidity corrector and the doses of agricultural gypsum increased the height of the aerial part, fresh and dry mass of the aerial part, one thousand-grain mass, and grain yeld (Table 2). This is the result of the soil acidity correction, making nutrients such as calcium and sulfur available by gypsum to bind to the CEC and be absorbed by the common bean plant, being an acidity-sensitive crop, promoted by the application of the acidity corrective (Galindo et al., 2017Galindo FS, Silva JC, Gerlach GAX, Ferreira MMR, Colombo AC & Teixeira Filho MCM (2017) Matéria seca do feijoeiro e correção da acidez do solo em função de doses e fontes de corretivos. Agrarian, 36:141-151.).

Table 2
Summary of pH variance analysis on pH, aluminum, available phosphorus, potassium, calcium and magnesium concentrations of a typical Dystrophic Red Argisol after Phaseolus vulgaris cultivation; the height of the aerial part, stem diameter, fresh and dry mass of aerial part, grain yeld and mass of a thousand bean grains subjected to doses of agricultural gypsum with and without lime application

The limestone increased the Ca+2 and Mg+2 concentrations, raised the pH and reduced the Al concentration, with no difference for the available P and K concentrations in the soil (Table 2), as the acidity corrective provides Ca+2 and Mg+2, releasing OH-, therefore neutralizing Al+3 and H+, and it does not have available P or K+ in its composition for availability in the soil (Eckert et al., 2022Eckert DJ, Martins AP, Vian AL, Pesini G, Alves LA, Flores JP, Filippi D, Tiecher TL, Fink JR, Bredemeier C, Coser TR, Goterres DB, Ambrosini GV, Horowitz N & Tiecher T (2022) Superfosfato simples em substituição ao gesso agrícola: efeito de curto prazo na produtividade de grãos e propriedades químicas do solo em solos subtropicais sob plantio direto. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, 10:01-17.). The doses of agricultural gypsum did not change the levels of K+, pH and Al+3 in the soil, raising only the concentration of available P, as gypsum does not act as an acidity corrector, but provides Ca+2 and may present low available P concentrations (0.6-0.75%) as it is a residue from the phosphate fertilizer industry (Brignoli et al., 2022Brignoli MF, Gatiboni LC, Mumbach GL, Dall’Orsoletta DJ, Souza AA & Grando DL (2022) Gypsum in Improving the use of Phosphate Fertilization for Soybean Crops. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 54:01-15.). The interaction was significant between gypsum doses and limestone application for P, Ca+2, and Mg+2 concentrations (Table 2). This is because the acidity neutralization in low fertility soils increases the availability of these nutrients in the solution, by reducing the activity of Fe and Al oxides, responsible for irreversible P fixation of phytotoxic elements (Al+3 and H+) in acidic soils, and makes Ca+2 and Mg+2 available, promoting their adsorption in the colloidal system and root absorption of nutrients in solution (Melo et al., 2019Melo RM, Carmo MV, Oliveira TC, Gonçalves WV, Torales EP, Tolouei SEL & Santos CC (2019) Calagem e textura do substrato afetam o desenvolvimento de Campomanesia adamantium (Cambess.) O. Berg. Revista de Ciências Agrárias, 42:99-108.).

Even in the treatments without liming, agricultural gypsum increased the height of the aerial part of the plants by up to 55.8%, in 85.8% and 70.5% the fresh and dry mass of the aerial part of the plants that did not receive liming (Figure 1A, C and D). The doses of agricultural gypsum increased grain yeld by more than 10 times and the mass of a thousand bean grains by up to 293% (Figure 1 E and F), highlighting the dose of 3000 kg ha-1 of gypsum. This is because of the high mobility of agricultural gypsum in the subsurface layers of the soil, allowing it to act below the arable layer, enhancing the exploration of the soil profile by the root system of crops with greater use of the nutrients applied to improve the performance of the plants in adverse conditions, such as drought (Amaral et al., 2017Amaral LA, Ascari JP, Duarte WM, Mendes IRN, Santos ES & Julio OLL (2017) Efeito de doses de gesso agrícola na cultura do milho e alterações químicas no solo. Agrarian, 35:31-41.).

Figure 1
Aerial part height (A), stem diameter (B), fresh mass of the aerial part (C), dry mass of the aerial part (D), 1,000 grain mass (E), and grain yield (F) of Phaseolus vulgaris subjected to different doses of agricultural gypsum, with and without the application of limestone in a typical Dystrophic Red Argisol.

Liming potentiated the effect of agricultural gypsum (Figure 1). In the treatments that received the doses of agricultural gypsum associated with the acidity corrector, a gain of 60.6% in plant height, 99.6%, and 104.3% in fresh and dry mass of aerial parts was observed respectively, in addition to a rise of up 191% in the grain yeld and 70.6% in the mass of a thousand grains of the common bean compared to the control (0 kg ha-1 of agricultural gypsum + liming). In addition, gypsum application promoted an increase in grain mass of up to 3.85 times when compared to the results obtained with the application of gypsum without liming. This demonstrates that agricultural gypsum does not replace liming as soil conditioners and acidity correctors have distinct and complementary action mechanisms. Lime promotes the neutralization of Al+3 and H+ in the soil top layer and makes Ca+2 and Mg+2 available. Gypsum, in turn, conditions the soil in depth by making Ca+2 and SO4-2 available, which stimulates the deepening of roots, optimizes nutrient absorption capacity and favors plant development under conditions of water stress (Duart et al., 2021Duart VM, Garbuio FJ & Caires EF (2021) Does direct-seeded rice performance improve upon lime and phosphogypsum use? Soil and Tillage Research, 202:01-12.).

Higher doses of agricultural gypsum impaired bean development, with a reduction of up to 45.3% and 28.7% in the fresh and dry mass of aerial parts, respectively, and by up to 42% in the mass of a thousand grains when compared to the best performance observed in this work (3000 kg ha-1), especially with the highest dose 5320 kg ha-1 of agricultural gypsum (Figure 1). This must have occurred because the application of excessive doses of agricultural gypsum can promote an imbalance between nutrient elements in the soil (Ramos et al., 2019Ramos BZ, Lima JMD, Serafim ME, Coscione AR, Ferraz RM, Amorim LM & Lopes G (2019) Ionic speciation in a dystrophic red latosol under coffee crop high doses of gypsum. Coffee Science, 14:281-290.) caused by the transport of nutrients such as Mg+2 (Caires et al., 2004Caires EF, Kusman MT, Barth G, Garbuio FJ & Padilha JM (2004) Alterações químicas do solo e resposta do milho à calagem e aplicação de gesso. Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 28:125-136., Pauletti et al., 2014Pauletti V, Pierri L, Ranzan T, Barth G & Motta ACV (2014) Efeitos em longo prazo da aplicação de gesso e calcário no sistema de plantio direto. Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 38:495-505.), harming the development of cultivated plants.

By deriving the formulas obtained through regression analysis, the Maximum Technical Efficiency (MTE) doses for the application of agricultural gypsum in common bean cultivation were obtained (Table 3). The MTE doses were 3291 and 2911 kg ha-1 of gypsum for treatments with and without limestone application, respectively, obtaining an average of 3100 kg ha-1. The MTE for treatments with liming may have been higher than those that did not receive it, since the acidity corrective allows the rise of the soil base saturation, facilitating the absorption of nutrient elements by the plants, which allows the crop to reach higher levels of grain yeld (Ramos et al., 2019Ramos BZ, Lima JMD, Serafim ME, Coscione AR, Ferraz RM, Amorim LM & Lopes G (2019) Ionic speciation in a dystrophic red latosol under coffee crop high doses of gypsum. Coffee Science, 14:281-290.). The doses of 420, 670, 950, 1140, and 1430 kg ha-1 of agricultural gypsum were much lower than the MTE doses, while the dose of 5320 kg ha-1 was very high for the common bean development observed in this work.

Table 3
Maximum technical efficiency doses of agricultural gypsum for the cultivation of Phaseolus vulgaris in a typical Dystrophic Red Argisol in northwestern Paraná

Therefore, the criterion for the application of agricultural gypsum proposed by Caires & Guimarães (2018)Caires EF & Guimarães AM (2018) A novel phosphogypsum application recommendation method under continuous no‐till management in Brazil. Agronomy Journal, 5:1987-1995. resulted in the dose closest to the maximum technical efficiency for the application of agricultural gypsum observed in this work, which is 3000 kg ha-1. This corroborates the research carried out by Ascari & Mendes (2017)Ascari JP & Mendes IRN (2017) Desenvolvimento agronômico e produtivo da soja sob diferentes doses de gesso agrícola. Revista Agrogeoambiental, 4:47-60. with soybean, also a legume, in which the MTE dose close to 3000 kg ha-1 of agricultural gypsum was estimated. However, this dose is higher than the current dose recommended by Pauletti & Motta (2019)Pauletti V & Motta ACV (2019) Manual de calagem e adubação para o estado do Paraná. 2ª ed. Curitiba, NEPAR/SBCS. 289p. for the State of Paraná, which is 700 kg ha-1 of gypsum for soils with clay concentrations up to 200 g kg-1. The MTE doses of agricultural gypsum were higher for the height and grain yeld parameters in the treatments combined with liming (3850 and 3443 kg ha-1) and without liming (3167 and 3525 kg ha-1). This can happen due to the demand for Ca+2 by the bean plant, especially during the period of pod formation, reducing its abortion (Cardenas et al., 2019Cardenas JAL, Santos CFA, Nieto DDC & Montesinos FE (2019) Efecto de dosis de calcio, para el rendimiento de cultivo de vainita (Phaseolus vulgaris), en el distrito de Barranca. Aporte Santiaguino, 12:45-58.), in addition to the benefit of making SO4-2 available by gypsum, to increase plant height as a function of the increase in the root system (Nascente et al., 2017Nascente AS, Silveira PM, Silva JG & Ferreira EPB (2017) Profundidade de adubação de enxofre afetando a nodulação e produtividade de grãos do feijão comum. Colloquium Agrariae, 13:09-18.).

By using the model proposed by Michaelis-Menten, the economic efficiency dose for agricultural gypsum was obtained at 548.7 and 871.4 kg with the application of limestone, and at 1288.8 and 2046.9 kg without the use of limestone (Figure 2), both compared to 85% and 90% of the maximum grain yeld obtained, respectively, according to the recommendations of Malchow & Ripps (1990)Malchow RP & Ripps H (1990) Effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid on skate retinal horizontal cells: evidence for an electrogenic uptake mechanism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 87:8945-8949..

Figure 2
Maximum economic efficiency dose of agricultural gypsum for 85% and 90% of maximum grain yeld of Phaseolus vulgaris with (A) and without (B) lime application in a typical Dystrophic Red Argisol.

This indicates that the economic efficiency of agricultural gypsum can be up to 134% higher in soils with corrected acidity as the acidity corrector contributes to soil fertility, not only by neutralizing phytotoxic elements but also through fertilization with Ca+2 and Mg+2, which may reduce the demand for agricultural gypsum in corrected soils (Duart et al., 2021Duart VM, Garbuio FJ & Caires EF (2021) Does direct-seeded rice performance improve upon lime and phosphogypsum use? Soil and Tillage Research, 202:01-12.; Lange et al., 2021Lange A, Cavalli E, Pereira CS, Chapla MV & da Silva FO (2021) Relações cálcio: magnésio e características químicas do solo sob cultivo de soja e milho. Nativa, 9:294-301.), which meets the results observed by Zandoná et al. (2015)Zandoná RR, Beutler AN, Burg GM, Barreto CF & Schmidt MR (2015) Gesso e calcário aumentam a produtividade e amenizam o efeito do déficit hídrico em milho e soja. Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical, 2:128-137.. This positive effect of limestone is confirmed by the increase in plant height (up to 16.7%), in the accumulation of fresh (up to 86.4%) and dry (up to 70.2%) matter in the aerial part by 78%, and the increase (up to 78%) in grain yeld and mass (up to 41.3%) of a thousand bean grains when compared to the results obtained without the use of limestone (Figure 3).

Figure 3
Aerial part height (A), stem diameter (B), fresh matter of the aerial part (C), dry matter of the aerial part (D), 1,000 grain mass (E), and grain yield (F) of Phaseolus vulgaris subjected to limestone application in a typical Dystrophic Red Argisol.

In the soil, limestone increased the pH by up to 20.4%, allowing the pH to be raised to the ideal range, between 5.0 and 5.5 (Figure 4 A), which can provide 90 to 100% of the maximum production of culture (Pauletti & Motta, 2019Pauletti V & Motta ACV (2019) Manual de calagem e adubação para o estado do Paraná. 2ª ed. Curitiba, NEPAR/SBCS. 289p.).

Liming increased the Ca+2 concentration by 63% and the Mg+2 concentration by 59% in the soil (Figure 4 E and F), which proves the calcium and magnesium fertilization capacity of this acidity corrector (Coldebella et al., 2018Coldebella N, Lorenzetti E, Tartaro J, Treib EL, Pinto RE, Fontana A & Alves AB (2018) Desempenho do milho à elevação da participação do cálcio na CTC. Scientia Agraria Paranaensis, 17:443-450.). The lime application also reduced the concentration of exchangeable aluminum in the soil by more than 97% (Figure 4 C). This occurs due to the acidity correction promoted by liming, through the release of hydroxyls (OH-), which act by insolubilizing toxic aluminum in solution (Al+3) and binding to H+ ions, causing the removal of these harmful elements from the cation exchange complex and allowing the nutrients responsible for the correct development of the plants to be absorbed by the root system of the crop (Melo et al., 2019Melo RM, Carmo MV, Oliveira TC, Gonçalves WV, Torales EP, Tolouei SEL & Santos CC (2019) Calagem e textura do substrato afetam o desenvolvimento de Campomanesia adamantium (Cambess.) O. Berg. Revista de Ciências Agrárias, 42:99-108.). There was no difference in the concentration of available P and K+ in the soil with the application of limestone (Figure 4 B and D), which may occur due to the limestone composition, which does not allow the availability of these elements in the soil.

Figure 4
pH (A), potassium (B), exchangeable aluminum (C), available phosphorus (D), calcium (E) and magnesium (F) of a typical Dystrophic Red Argisol subjected to lime application for Phaseolus vulgaris cultivation in northwestern Paraná.

No changes were observed in the pH and Al+3 concentrations with the application of agricultural gypsum (Figure 5 A and B), which shows that this input does not replace liming to correct soil acidity (Costa et al., 2020Costa SDA, Brasil EC & da Silva Júnior ML (2020) Influência da aplicação de calcário e gesso nos atributos químicos de um Latossolo Amarelo distrófico e na produtividade do milho na Amazônia Oriental. Journal of Agricultural Studies, 8:363-383.). Agricultural gypsum is not considered acidity corrective because it does not release OH- ions in solution, responsible for neutralizing soil acidity, acting only as a source of Ca+2 and SO4-2, conditioning the subsurface layers of the soil (Eckert et al., 2022Eckert DJ, Martins AP, Vian AL, Pesini G, Alves LA, Flores JP, Filippi D, Tiecher TL, Fink JR, Bredemeier C, Coser TR, Goterres DB, Ambrosini GV, Horowitz N & Tiecher T (2022) Superfosfato simples em substituição ao gesso agrícola: efeito de curto prazo na produtividade de grãos e propriedades químicas do solo em solos subtropicais sob plantio direto. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, 10:01-17.). The doses of agricultural gypsum increased the availability of available P and Ca+2 in the soil, regardless of the liming application (Figure 5 D and E). This may occur because agricultural gypsum is rich in Ca+2, in addition to being a by-product of the fertilizer industry that has igneous phosphate rocks as raw material and may have varying concentrations of P2O5 in its composition (Brignoli et al., 2022Brignoli MF, Gatiboni LC, Mumbach GL, Dall’Orsoletta DJ, Souza AA & Grando DL (2022) Gypsum in Improving the use of Phosphate Fertilization for Soybean Crops. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 54:01-15.).

Figure 5
pH (A), potassium (B), exchangeable aluminum (C), available phosphorus (D), calcium (E) and magnesium (F) of a typical Dystrophic Red Argisol subjected to different doses of agricultural gypsum, with and without the application of limestone for cultivation of Phaseolus vulgaris in northwestern Paraná.

However, the highest dose of gypsum (5320 kg ha-1) reduced the Mg+2 concentration of the soil by up to 30% (Figure 5 F). Probably, the use of excessive doses of agricultural gypsum must have generated an imbalance in the ratio (Ca / Mg) between nutrients in the soil due to the saturation of electrical charges due to the high presence of Ca+2, which may cause nutritional disorders in plants (Pauletti et al., 2014Pauletti V, Pierri L, Ranzan T, Barth G & Motta ACV (2014) Efeitos em longo prazo da aplicação de gesso e calcário no sistema de plantio direto. Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 38:495-505.; Ascari & Mendes., 2017Ascari JP & Mendes IRN (2017) Desenvolvimento agronômico e produtivo da soja sob diferentes doses de gesso agrícola. Revista Agrogeoambiental, 4:47-60.).

Thus, the dose of 5320 kg ha-1 of agricultural gypsum raised the concentration of Ca+2 and available P in the soil to a level considered high and very high (Pauletti & Motta, 2019Pauletti V & Motta ACV (2019) Manual de calagem e adubação para o estado do Paraná. 2ª ed. Curitiba, NEPAR/SBCS. 289p.), respectively, for soils in Paraná, as it can provide a decline in grain yeld due to nutritional imbalance or toxicity caused by the excess of nutrients (Ramos et al., 2013Ramos BZ, Toledo JPVF, Lima JM, Serafim ME, Batos ARR, Guimarães PTG & Coscione AR (2013) Doses de gesso em cafeeiro: influência nos teores de cálcio, magnésio, potássio e pH na solução de um Latossolo Vermelho distrófico. Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 37:1018-1026.). This highlights the importance of works on the impact of the criteria for the application of agricultural gypsum on the development of cultivated plants.

CONCLUSION

The doses of agricultural gypsum benefited the development and grain yeld of common beans, especially when associated with the application of limestone to correct soil acidity. The dose of maximum technical efficiency of agricultural gypsum for the cultivation of common bean was 3291 and 2911 kg ha-1 with and without the use of limestone, respectively, the criterion being the closest to the appropriate dose: NG = (0.6 x t – Ca concentration, in cmolc dm-3). Gypsum did not change pH, K+, and Al+3 in the soil, only increasing the levels of P, Ca+2 and Mg+2.

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    Part of the first author’s final paper as a requirement for obtaining the title of Agronomist Engineer at the State University of Maringá.

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Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    22 Apr 2024
  • Date of issue
    2024

History

  • Received
    08 Dec 2022
  • Accepted
    14 Nov 2023
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