Traditional phosphorus fertilization of crops in Poland has a high environmental risk associated with the ease of transfer of into surface waters, as well as the high cost of production of such fertilizers. This imposes the need to find new solutions to fertilizer, which on one hand would be a lower risk to the environment, on the other hand would be equally accessible source of phosphorus for plants. One of them may be the use of phosphate - sulfur fertilizers (FS), characterized by a gradual release digestible phosphates (V), and hence the lower the migration to the water. The addition of sulfur increasing the availability of phosphorus from phosphate rock, is also a source of sulfur as a nutrient for plants. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of elemental sulfur to the ground rock phosphate on the phosphates (V) and sulfate (VI) ions permeation to waters. In vegetation experiments tested how use of phosphate - sulfur fertilizers affects the movement of phosphates (V) and sulfate (VI) ions to the water. Performed two two-year pot experiment, which tested effect 6 types of phosphate - sulfur fertilizer, differing in degree of milling phosphate (F1 and F2) and the ...
The aim of the three-year pot experiment was to determine the effect of standard mineral fertilization enriched with sulfur and iron on the content of nitrogen and sulfur in plants and on nutrient utilization by plants. Abundance of sulfates in soil after sulfur fertilization was also assessed. The direct effect of fertilization was assessed during the first and second year of the pot experiment, and the after-effect was analyzed during the third year. Rape (first year) and maize (second and third year) were the test plants. Solid mineral fertilizers (A: a mixture of ammonium nitrate and dolomite; B: a mixture of ammonium nitrate and sulfate) enriched with iron sulfate were used. Nitrogen content in the plants varied depending on applied fertilization as well on plant species and part. Sulfur application increased sulfur content in the aboveground parts of plants by 25-457% and in roots by 95-708%. Iron application ambiguously influenced nitrogen and sulfur content in the plants. Hovewer, simultaneous application of iron and sulfur (as fertilizer B enriched with iron) resulted in the highest coefficient of nitrogen (84%) and sulfur (39%) utilization. Sulfur fertilization caused a 5-20 fold increase in sulfate sulfur content in the soil. ...
