O presente trabalho foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de avaliar as respostas da Brachiaria decumbens Stapf, cultivada em solo proveniente de uma pastagem degradada. O experimento foi desenvolvido em casa-de-vegetação do Departamento de Ciências Biológicas da Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz"/USP. O solo utilizado foi classificado como Neossolo Quartzarênico e foi coletado numa profundidade de 0 a 20 cm. Após a coleta esse solo foi seco, homogeneizado, pesado e colocados em sacos plásticos, juntamente com as respectivas doses de calcário e depositados em vasos com capacidade de 10 kg, onde permaneceram por um período de 60 dias. Os tratamentos consistiram de quatro doses de nitrogênio (0, 180, 630 e 1080 mg kg -1 de solo), quatro doses de calcário (0, 1587,6, 3175,2 e 4762,8 mg kg -1 de solo) e três doses de enxofre (0, 108 e 216 mg kg -1 de solo). Empregou-se um esquema fatorial 4x4x3 perfazendo 48 combinações, as quais foram distribuídas segundo o delineamento experimental de blocos casualizados, com três repetições. No momento do plantio efetuou-se uma adubação com fósforo e potássio, micronutrientes (cobre e zinco) e enxofre. Aos treze dias após o plantio realizou-se a adubação com o nitrogênio. Foram realizados dois cortes e um dia antes de cada corte efetuou-se avaliações do teor de clorofila. Após o corte o material coletado foi separado em folhas emergentes, lâminas de folhas recém-expandidas, lâminas de folhas maduras e colmos mais bainhas e foi realizada a leitura da área foliar dos três primeiros. Em seguida esse material foi colocado em estufa de circulação forçada de ar a 65 0 C por 72 horas para determinar a matéria seca de cada componente da parte aérea e, esse mesmo procedimento foi feito para as raízes após serem lavadas. O material depois de pesado foi moído em moinho tipo Wiley e levado ao laboratório para a determinação de macro e micronutrientes. Realizou-se também, a contagem de perfilhos. Os resultados evidenciaram efeito significativo (P<0,05) das doses de nitrogênio no primeiro corte, e significância para a interação entre enxofre e nitrogênio para a produção de matéria seca da parte aérea da planta, no primeiro e segundo crescimentos. Quanto à produção de matéria seca das raízes, verificou-se efeito significativo (P<0,05) somente para as doses de nitrogênio. No perfilhamento da forrageira houve significância para a interação entre as doses de enxofre, nitrogênio e calcário, no segundo corte. Também houve significância (P<0,05) para as doses de enxofre e nitrogênio no valor SPAD e interação nitrogênio e calcário na área foliar. Na concentração de macro e micronutrientes da planta houve significância (P<0,05) das doses de nitrogênio, enxofre e calcário e interação entre nitrogênio e enxofre e nitrogênio e calcário em alguns componentes da parte aérea. / The present work was carried out with the objective of evaluating responses of Brachiaria decumbens Stapf. grown in a soil from a degraded pasture. The experiment was conducted in a grenhouse in the Departamento de Ciências Biológicas at the "Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz" - USP. The soil was classified as an Entissol and it was collected from a layer of 0 to 20 cm. The pots were filled with 10 kg of this soil and lime rates were incubated for 60 days. The experimental arrange was a 4x4x3 factorial with nitrogen (0, 180, 630 and 1080 mg kg -1 ), lime (0, 1587.6, 3175.2 and 4762.8 mg kg -1 ) and sulfur (0, 108 and 216 mg kg -1 ), and it was used a randomized complete block design, with three replications. Fertilization with P, K Cu, Zn and S was done at sowing, and N was applied 13 days that. Plants was harvested twice, and plant tops was separated in emergent leaves (EL), laminae of recently expanded leaves (RL), laminae of mature leaves (ML) and culms plus sheaths (CS), Leaf area was determined by measuring EL, LR and ML. SPAD values (chlorophyll content) were evaluated one day before each harvests. The collected material was dried at 65 0 C during 72 hours in an oven with circulating air. The root system was collected and washed following the second harvest. Nutrient concentrations in the forage dry matter and roots were determined after weighting and grinding the samples. Results showed significant effect (P<0.05) for nitrogen supply in the first harvest, and significant interaction for sulfur nitrogen on plant tops dry matter in the first and the second harvests. Roots dry matter had significant (P<0.05) effect for nitrogen rates. Significancies were observed for nitrogen nitrogen X sulfur interaction for SPAD values, for nitrogen X lime for leaf area and for lime X nitrogen X sulfur for plant tillering at second harvest. The nitrogen, sulfur and lime had significant effects on nutrients concentrations, as well as by interaction of nitrogen X sulfur and nitrogen X lime for some parts of plant tops.

O presente trabalho foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de avaliar as respostas da Brachiaria decumbens Stapf, cultivada em solo proveniente de uma pastagem degradada. O experimento foi desenvolvido em casa-de-vegetação do Departamento de Ciências Biológicas da Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz"/USP. O solo utilizado foi classificado como Neossolo Quartzarênico e foi coletado numa profundidade de 0 a 20 cm. Após a coleta esse solo foi seco, homogeneizado, pesado e colocados em sacos plásticos, juntamente com as respectivas doses de calcário e depositados em vasos com capacidade de 10 kg, onde permaneceram por um período de 60 dias. Os tratamentos consistiram de quatro doses de nitrogênio (0, 180, 630 e 1080 mg kg -1 de solo), quatro doses de calcário (0, 1587,6, 3175,2 e 4762,8 mg kg -1 de solo) e três doses de enxofre (0, 108 e 216 mg kg -1 de solo). Empregou-se um esquema fatorial 4x4x3 perfazendo 48 combinações, as quais foram distribuídas segundo o delineamento experimental de blocos casualizados, com três repetições. No momento do plantio efetuou-se uma adubação com fósforo e potássio, micronutrientes (cobre e zinco) e enxofre. Aos treze dias após o plantio realizou-se a adubação com o nitrogênio. Foram realizados dois cortes e um dia antes de cada corte efetuou-se avaliações do teor de clorofila. Após o corte o material coletado foi separado em folhas emergentes, lâminas de folhas recém-expandidas, lâminas de folhas maduras e colmos mais bainhas e foi realizada a leitura da área foliar dos três primeiros. Em seguida esse material foi colocado em estufa de circulação forçada de ar a 65 0 C por 72 horas para determinar a matéria seca de cada componente da parte aérea e, esse mesmo procedimento foi feito para as raízes após serem lavadas. O material depois de pesado foi moído em moinho tipo Wiley e levado ao laboratório para a determinação de macro e micronutrientes. Realizou-se também, a contagem de perfilhos. Os resultados evidenciaram efeito significativo (P<0,05) das doses de nitrogênio no primeiro corte, e significância para a interação entre enxofre e nitrogênio para a produção de matéria seca da parte aérea da planta, no primeiro e segundo crescimentos. Quanto à produção de matéria seca das raízes, verificou-se efeito significativo (P<0,05) somente para as doses de nitrogênio. No perfilhamento da forrageira houve significância para a interação entre as doses de enxofre, nitrogênio e calcário, no segundo corte. Também houve significância (P<0,05) para as doses de enxofre e nitrogênio no valor SPAD e interação nitrogênio e calcário na área foliar. Na concentração de macro e micronutrientes da planta houve significância (P<0,05) das doses de nitrogênio, enxofre e calcário e interação entre nitrogênio e enxofre e nitrogênio e calcário em alguns componentes da parte aérea. / The present work was carried out with the objective of evaluating responses of Brachiaria decumbens Stapf. grown in a soil from a degraded pasture. The experiment was conducted in a grenhouse in the Departamento de Ciências Biológicas at the "Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz" - USP. The soil was classified as an Entissol and it was collected from a layer of 0 to 20 cm. The pots were filled with 10 kg of this soil and lime rates were incubated for 60 days. The experimental arrange was a 4x4x3 factorial with nitrogen (0, 180, 630 and 1080 mg kg -1 ), lime (0, 1587.6, 3175.2 and 4762.8 mg kg -1 ) and sulfur (0, 108 and 216 mg kg -1 ), and it was used a randomized complete block design, with three replications. Fertilization with P, K Cu, Zn and S was done at sowing, and N was applied 13 days that. Plants was harvested twice, and plant tops was separated in emergent leaves (EL), laminae of recently expanded leaves (RL), laminae of mature leaves (ML) and culms plus sheaths (CS), Leaf area was determined by measuring EL, LR and ML. SPAD values (chlorophyll content) were evaluated one day before each harvests. The collected material was dried at 65 0 C during 72 hours in an oven with circulating air. The root system was collected and washed following the second harvest. Nutrient concentrations in the forage dry matter and roots were determined after weighting and grinding the samples. Results showed significant effect (P<0.05) for nitrogen supply in the first harvest, and significant interaction for sulfur nitrogen on plant tops dry matter in the first and the second harvests. Roots dry matter had significant (P<0.05) effect for nitrogen rates. Significancies were observed for nitrogen nitrogen X sulfur interaction for SPAD values, for nitrogen X lime for leaf area and for lime X nitrogen X sulfur for plant tillering at second harvest. The nitrogen, sulfur and lime had significant effects on nutrients concentrations, as well as by interaction of nitrogen X sulfur and nitrogen X lime for some parts of plant tops.

This study evaluated the effectiveness of chiselling and elemental sulfur fertilization in improving an upland and a swale range site with fine loamy, carbonatic, typic calcixeroll soils in the Ait Rbaa Perimeter of central Morocco. Ponding infiltration, soil water content on a mass basis of the 0- to 10-cm and 10- to 20-cm soil layers, peak season biomass production, and botanical composition were monitored during the two growing seasons following the treatments (1984/85 and 1985/86). Chiselling significantly improved infiltration on both sites, although the improvement was greater on the finer and less stony swale site, where chiselling resulted in more stable ridges. The land treatment also increased the average water content by weight of the 0- to 20-cm soil layer. The increase was more frequent on the upland site and most pronounced on its o- to 10-cm surface soil layer. In the chiselled treatments, average soil water content decreased with soil depth on the upland site while it increased on the swale site because of differential furrow stability and soil texture. Both the average infiltration rates of 5 cm of water and the average water content varied with sampling time, although generally in opposite directions. The application of elemental sulfur at the rates of 0, 30, and 60 kg ha-1 did not significantly affect any of the measured variables. Average peak season biomass production was 11% greater with chiselling. Chiselling also positively affected botanical composition on the upland site by depressing average forb proportion and increasing legume ratio in the first growing season. The gain in biomass does not seem to be high enough to strongly recommend chiselling in the Ait Rbaa Perimeter before performing an economic analysis of the operation.

Le colza est une oléoprotéagineuse exigeante en soufre (S) mais caractérisée par une faible efficience d’usage du S (EUS). La baisse des retombés atmosphériques soufrées, l'existence de fortes interactions entre les métabolismes soufrés et azotés et l’augmentation prédite des températures terrestres peuvent conduire à une altération des rendements et de la qualité des graines de colza. Dans ce contexte, en s’appuyant sur des approches in planta (conditions contrôlées et de plein champ) et in silico (expérimentations numériques via le modèle écophysiologique SuMoToRI "Sulphur Model Towards Rapeseed Improvement"), les principaux objectifs de cette thèse étaient d’étudier l’impact (i) de différentes stratégies de fertilisation S et N, (ii) du changement climatique et (iii) de la variabilité des paramètres « plante » du modèle sur la croissance ainsi que sur les composantes du rendement et la qualité des graines de colza.Cette étude a permis de confirmer les effets synergiques des apports de S et de N ainsi que leurs effets antagonistes lors d’apport excessif d’un des deux éléments sur l’EUS et l’EUN, soulignant l'importance d'équilibrer les apports S/N. Décaler l’apport en S a permis d’améliorer la qualité protéique des graines en augmentant l’abondance relative en napines (protéines de réserve des graines riches en cystéine). Deux indices de la qualité protéique des graines ont pu être proposés : (i) la teneur en S des graines, fortement corrélée avec l'abondance relative en napines et (ii) le ratio napine:cruciférine-30kDa (cruciférines : protéines de réserve pauvres en S), permettant d’apprécier l’équilibre des apports S/N. Les simulations réalisées avec le modèle ont montré que des ajustements de la fertilisation S devront s’opérer dans un contexte d’augmentation des températures et/ou de diminution du rayonnement incident conduisant à une baisse de la biomasse et à une augmentation du S stocké dans les feuilles. Ces résultats requestionnent les schémas conventionnels de fertilisation et l’utilisation d’idéotypes variétaux et culturaux adaptés aux schémas de fertilisation S et N ainsi qu’au dérèglement climatique. / Oilseed rape is an oleoproteaginous crop with high sulfur (S) demanding and characterized by a low S use efficiency (SUE). The decline in atmospheric S deposition, the existence of strong interactions between S and nitrogen (N) metabolism and the predicted increase in terrestrial temperatures can lead to an alteration in seeds yields and quality. In this context, using in planta (controlled conditions and fields experiments) and in silico (numerical experiments through an agro-ecophysiological model SuMoToRI, “Sulfur Model Towards Rapeseed Improvement”) approaches, the main objectives of this thesis were to study the impact of (i) different S and N fertilization strategies, (ii) climate change and (iii) the variability of the model’s “plant” parameters on growth as well as the yield components and the seeds quality of oilseed rape.This study confirmed the synergistic effects of S and N inputs and their antagonistic effects when of one of the two elements was in excessive rate on EUS and EUN, highlighting the importance of balancing S/N inputs. Delaying S input has improved seed protein quality by increasing the relative abundance of napins (cysteine-rich seed storage proteins). Two seed protein quality indices could be proposed (i) seeds S content, strongly correlated with relative napine abundance and (ii) the ratio napins:cruciferins-30kDa (cruciferins : S-poor seed storage proteins). S), making it possible to assess the S/N balance inputs. The simulations carried-out with the model showed that the adjustment of S fertilization must be performed in a context of increasing temperature and/or a reduction of incident radiation which lead to a decrease of biomass and an increase of S stored in leaves. Overall, these results questioned conventional fertilization strategies and the use of varietal and crop ideotypes adapted to S and N fertilization strategies as well as to climate change.