Estudo da colonização micorrízica arbuscular no desenvolvimento de minirosa em um Neossolo Quartzarênico do município de Eusébio - CE.

Abstract

The state of Ceará has been highlighted in the production of flowers and ornamental plants in recent years and has been growing in many ways influencing in the developing the economy of Ceará. However, despite the great economic importance of roses in Ceará as well as in other regions of Brazil, there is a lack of research on these flowers in the country. Information is scarce as, for example, the nutritional requirements of roses under the conditions of production in Brazil, as well as the possible beneficial associations established with edaphic microorganisms. The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization on the development of in a Neosoil Quartzarenic in the Eusébio county in Ceará state. The experiment was initially conducted under greenhouse conditions and was continued in field conditions after transplanting. The study was conducted at Exotic Landscaping company in the Eusebio county. The soil collected was used for chemical and microbiological analysis. The cuttings rose miniature, white variety, were planted in trays containing sterile soil or natural soil, where they were kept for a period of 30 days for rooting. These cuttings also received sterile water or natural water during the formation of roots. The rooting phase was conducted in greenhouse conditions. After this period, the seedlings were transplanted to plastic pots containing only natural soil. These plants after transplanting began to receive only natural lake water and two different levels of phosphorus. The experiment was destructive, with two samplings periods, to 60 and 90 days after transplanting, and three replicates for each treatment. A factorial completely randomized design 2 (two phosphorus levels) x 2 (roots in sterile soil or natural) x 2 (irrigation with natural pond water or sterile pond water) with four replicates was adopted. The parameters evaluated were: shoot dry matter, plant height, diameter of stalk, number of roses, determination of P in the plant, arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization, spore density and diversity of AMF species and basal soil respiration. To 90 days after transplanting, the plants that received suboptimal levels of P (P2), the early colonization significantly increased the production of shoot dry matter of plants rooted in natural soil when compared to plants rooted in sterile soil. The FMA may have been stimulated by the low supply of phosphorus. To 90 days after transplanting, increased plant height, influenced by the rooting conditions, may have been promoted by the roots in natural soil, or by the presence of AMF during the formation of roots. To 60 days after transplanting, the plants that received the treatments T5 and T6 were the only plots that there were no roses at the this period both treatments were made up by a factor of rooting in sterile soil, eg. in the absence of AMF. To 90 days after transplanting period, the plants that received the treatments T3 and T4 and therefore were rooted in natural soil (pre-colonized) had the largest number of roses at the time of sampling and subsequent counting of roses. Related to mycorrhizal colonization, in both periods, the P factor was, statistically, the only factor to influence the results. Rooting in natural soil promoted the further development of the rose miniature in soil with less P available. The cuttings of rose miniature when rooted in soil had less lost cuttings, increased survival to transplanting and better growth and vigor when compared to plants grown commercially in powder coconut and rice shell.