The effect of hard coal ashes on the amount and quality of maize yield

• Authors: Jacek Antonkiewicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The research was conducted in 2003 - 2005 as a pot experiment on mineral soil to which ash doses of between 13.33 g and 800.0 g · pot-1 were supplied in proportions corresponding to the amounts of between 10 and 600 t · ha-1. The investigations aimed at learning the effect of diversified ash doses upon the content, ionic relations and the uptake of Mg, Ca, Na and P by maize. Macroelement concentrations in maize were diversified depending on the object and the plant part, fluctuating from 1.52 - 7.49 g Mg; 3.79 - 11.01 g Ca; 8.07 - 23.86 g K; 0.17 - 1.52 g Na; 1.23 - 3.16 g P · kg-1 d.m. It was found that with the growing ash dose the contents of Mg, Ca, K and Na in maize were increasing systematically, whereas P concentrations were decreasing. Magnesium and potassium content in maize aboveground parts met the requirements for a good quality fodder. The level of calcium, sodium and phosphorus in maize did not remain within the optimal range. A systematic increase in Mg uptake but a decline in P absorption by the aboveground parts were registered in maize in effect of growing ash doses.

Keywords

EN

maize; Mg; Ca; K; Na; ratios; uptake; ash; mineral soil

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Chemical Technology
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 20-25

Dates

published

1 - 1 - 2007

online

6 - 11 - 2007

Contributors

author

Jacek Antonkiewicz

• Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural University, Krakow, al. Mickiewicza 21, 31-120 Kraków, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10026-007-0046-3