The Effect of Biochar Application on Soil Properties and Growth of the Model Plant Zea Mays

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.ecocycles.net/ojs/index.php/ecocycles/article/view/201" target="_blank" >https://www.ecocycles.net/ojs/index.php/ecocycles/article/view/201</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.19040/ecocycles.v7i2.201" target="_blank" >10.19040/ecocycles.v7i2.201</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Effect of Biochar Application on Soil Properties and Growth of the Model Plant Zea Mays

Original language description

The classic way of land cultivation means the use of inorganic fertilizers that are salts that dissolve rapidly in a short time and improve soil fertility. This process negatively affects soil salinity and the life of microorganisms. The use of biochar as a soil conditioner is a promising solution. The aim of the work is to enrich the properties of less fertile soils and to enhance the growth of the model plant Zea mays (corn) by biochar application. We used four different soil types commonly spread in the Czech Republic – regosol, chernozem, cambisol and fluvisol representing a broad range of organic matter content. Also, we applied two different EBC (The European Biochar Certificate) certified biochars for use in agriculture. Corn seeds were germinated and cultivated for 3 months in repeated plant life cycles. Soils and biochar samples were characterized before and after cultivation by TGA, EA, BET, SEM, extraction of organic matter. The effect of biochar application was observed continuously through the measurement of plant height, the number of leaves and cobs. After the finalization of cultivation experiments, the dry mass of individual plants was measured, and root image analysis of every plant was performed. Fluvisol and cambisol have much higher organic matter content than regosol and chernozem. The application of biochar had the most significant impact on regosol regardless of the application dose; these results are in good agreement with the root image analysis. Furthermore, plants in soils treated with biochar had more corn cobs. The analysis on biochar samples showed the continual leaching of both organic and inorganic molecules from biochar to surrounding soil, which is crucial for its possible use as a soil conditioner and confirms the long-timescale positive effect on soil properties.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10403 - Physical chemistry

Project

<a href="/en/project/GJ20-28208Y" target="_blank" >GJ20-28208Y: Understanding the effect of biochar amendment on stability of soil organic matter–from interdisciplinary methodology to molecular-level interpretation</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

ECOCYCLES

ISSN

2416-2140

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

46-54

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85137679396