Impact of vermicompost on biological indicators of the quality of soil under maize in a greenhouse experiment

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5601/jelem.2017.22.4.1548" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5601/jelem.2017.22.4.1548</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5601/jelem.2017.22.4.1548" target="_blank" >10.5601/jelem.2017.22.4.1548</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Impact of vermicompost on biological indicators of the quality of soil under maize in a greenhouse experiment

Original language description

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of vermicompost application on above ground dry matter biomass, microbial biomass carbon (MBC), dehydrogenase activity (DHA), and functional diversity of microbial communities (BIOLOG assay using EcoPlatesTM) in the cultivation of maize. The greenhouse experiment included variants: control (no fertilizer), CAN (mineral fertilizer calcium ammonium nitrate 30 kg N/ha), V20+CAN (vermicompost 20 t/ha+mineral fertilizer 60 kg N/ha), V40 (vermicompost 40 t/ha) and V80 (vermicompost 80 t/ha). Soil samples were analysed at the start and an end of the experiment (after 74 days). We observed the positive impact of vermicompost on above ground matter biomass of maize, but differences in comparison to control were not statistically confirmed. The more pronounced influence of fertilization on biological parameters was found at the end of the experiment. MBC was statistically significantly higher in variants V40 (14.8%) and V80 (32.4%) than control. Application of CAN had significantly negative effect, but combination of V20+CAN had positively influence of dehydrogenase activity. However, soil BIOLOG data indicated that the Shannon diversity index and evenness were significantly the lowest in V20+CAN variant. The study suggests that vermicompost improves soil quality and represents a suitable alternative to mineral fertilizers.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Elementology

ISSN

1644-2296

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

319-330

UT code for WoS article

000454632200025

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85063749141