Effect of Soil Mixtures Based on a Gneiss-Derived Soil and Two Forest Floor Types on Growth and Nutritional Status of Castanea sativa Mill. Seedlings
| العنوان: | Effect of Soil Mixtures Based on a Gneiss-Derived Soil and Two Forest Floor Types on Growth and Nutritional Status of Castanea sativa Mill. Seedlings |
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| المؤلفون: | Evgenia Papaioannou, Dionisios Gasparatos, Stefanos Stefanou, Theocharis Chatzistathis, Katerina Karamanoli, Evangelos Matziris |
| المصدر: | Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. 23:1339-1350 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Soil Science, Plant Science, Agronomy and Crop Science |
| الوصف: | Aiming at the production of robust chestnut plants suitable for the establishment of plantations or for their use in afforestation of forest ecosystems, we studied the effect of soil mixtures on growth, physiological characteristics, and nutritional status of chestnut seedlings. In a complete randomized-block design pot experiment, the soil used was derived from gneiss weathering (GN) and the treatments included GN and GN with fertilization (GN-FER) as well as mixtures of GN with forest floor (FF) from chestnuts (GN-CFF) and from evergreen broad-leaved trees (GN-EFF). Both types of forest floor and fertilization had similar positive effect on seedlings growth and photosynthetic parameters. The most significant effects on soil nutrients were found in GN-CFF and GN-EFF treatments, except for extractable phosphorus (P) and exchangeable potassium (K), whose highest concentrations were observed in GN-FER. Leaf analysis showed that the concentrations of almost all nutrients in all treatments were within the adequacy limits, with the exception of nitrogen (N) in GN, copper (Cu) in GN-EFF, and K in all treatments. Both types of forest floor satisfied the nutritional needs of chestnut seedlings to a large extent and their incorporation in this type of soil combined with limited addition mainly of K and to a lesser degree of P could enhance adequacy of these nutrients in soil and plants. Thus, forest floor application may be an appropriate alternative to integrated nutrient management for robust chestnut seedlings production with significant forestry and environmental impacts. |
| تدمد: | 0718-9516 0718-9508 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::e8a6697d8bbb54708637ed2056bb5cfaTest https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-023-01124-7Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........e8a6697d8bbb54708637ed2056bb5cfa |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 07189516 07189508 |
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