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Title: Impact of waterlogging on the nutrition of cotton ('Gossypium hirsutum' L.) produced in sodic soils
Contributor(s): Dodd, Kylie (author); Guppy, Christopher  (author)orcid ; Lockwood, Peter V  (author); Rochester, Ian J (author)
Publication Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1071/CP13093
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14004
Abstract: Sodicity in Vertosols used for agricultural production can adversely affect the growth and nutrition of cotton ('Gossypium hirsutum' L.) plants. Cotton produced in sodic soils has reduced dry matter and lint yield and can develop toxic plant tissue concentrations of sodium (Na) but limited tissue concentrations of phosphorus (P,) potassium (K), and micronutrients. Crops produced on sodic soils frequently suffer from aeration stress after an irrigation or rainfall event, and it was hypothesised that the adverse physical and/or chemical conditions of sodic soils may exacerbate the effects of waterlogging. We measured the impacts of sodicity on the growth, nutrition, and root recovery time of cotton during and after waterlogging in two experiments. In the first, cotton plants were subjected to a 7-day period of inundation in Grey Vertosols with a range of exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) values from 2 to 25%; ³²P was placed in the pots and its accumulation in the plant was used to indicate root activity and recovery after the waterlogging event. In a second experiment, agar was dissolved in nutrient solutions with a range of Na concentrations (9, 30, and 52mM) matching soil solution Na concentrations in sodic soils, in order to simulate a waterlogging event. Following the waterlogging event, the solutions were labelled with ³²P, in order to determine the effect of sodic soil solution chemistry on the rate of recovery of cotton root function after the event. Plant nutrient analysis was used to determine the effects of sodicity and waterlogging on cotton nutrition. In both experiments, waterlogging reduced root activity and reduced the uptake and transport of labelled P by the cotton plants, decreased plant P and K concentrations, and increased the plant Na concentrations. Sodicity exacerbated the effects of waterlogging on root function and cotton nutrition in the soil experiment but not in the nutrient solution experiment, suggesting that any contribution of waterlogging to the patterns of nutrient accumulation in cotton crops produced in sodic fields occurs due to soil physical factors rather than soil solution chemistry.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Crop and Pasture Science, 64(8), p. 816-824
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Place of Publication: Australia
ISSN: 1836-5795
1836-0947
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 050305 Soil Physics
050304 Soil Chemistry (excl Carbon Sequestration Science)
070306 Crop and Pasture Nutrition
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 410605 Soil physics
410604 Soil chemistry and soil carbon sequestration (excl. carbon sequestration science)
300407 Crop and pasture nutrition
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 961402 Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Soils
820301 Cotton
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 180605 Soils
260602 Cotton
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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