Abstract

MARTIN ALONSO, Gloria M et al. Comparison of two models of response to nitrogen doses in corn and coffee. cultrop [online]. 2016, vol.37, n.2, pp. 155-164. ISSN 1819-4087.

The common method to generate fertilizer recommendations is by fitting yield data for each crop separately through mathematical models. This work was carried out with the objective of comparing two response equation models to nitrogen rates in two economically important crops, corn and coffee, besides defining the most appropriate criteria to select the model that offers an adequate optimal fertilization rate. Thus, N doses from 0 to 200 kg ha^-1 for corn (Zea mays) were studied along with different types of crop rotation: fallow followed by corn; fallow-corn inoculated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF); jackbean-corn and jackbean-corn inoculated with AMF, in experiments performed during 2003 and 2006. In the case of coffee crop, N doses from 0 to 400 kg ha^-1 were studied depending on plant age, within the first two productive cycles of a Coffea canephora plantation, during 1996 and 2007. The rectilinear discontinuous model with lineal equations and the curvilinear continuous model with second degree equations were compared. Maximum yield, optimum economic rate and partial productivity factor were estimated by the equations obtained from each model. In both crops studied, the rectilinear discontinuous model offered lower fertilizer dose estimations than the one obtained by the curvilinear model, so that together with the partial productivity factor, they constitute effective methods to estimate the amount of nutriments to be applied, avoiding N overdoses

Keywords : Coffea canephora; application rates; maize; linear models.

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