SALINIDADE DO SUBSTRATO CONTENDO BIOFERTILIZANTE PARA FORMACÃO DE MUDAS DE MARACUJAZEIRO IRRIGADO COM ÁGUA SALINA

• Main Authors: Gasparino Batista de Sousa, Lourival Ferreira Cavalcante, Ítalo Herbert Lucena Cavalcante, Márkilla Zunete Beckmann-Cavalcante, José Adeilson Nascimento
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido 2008-01-01
• Series: Revista Caatinga
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=237117611022

An experiment was carried out, in order to evaluate the saline aspect of the substrate with biofertilizer on seedling formation of yellow passion fruit irrigated with different saline water. A completely randomized design was used, with treatments distributed in a factorial arrangement 5 x 3 x 2, referring to water salinity levels (0.5; 1.0; 2.0; 3.0 and 4,0 dS m-1), substrate volumes (1, 2 and 3 L), in absence and presence of biofertilizer bovine. The following variables were registered at the end of the experiment: pH, electrical conductivity of water and exchangeable sodium percentage. The increase of irrigation water salinity, independently of biofertilizer use, drastically enhanced the substrate salinity, from not saline to saline and strongly saline. No there was definition of the values of PST among substrate volumes. Electrical conductivity values of the saturation extract were higher for substrate with lower volume.