Effect of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium on regional organic substrates in Agave salmiana production in Huichapan, Hidalgo, Mexico

EMILIO RAYMUNDO MORALES MALDONADO MONICA GUTIERREZ ROJAS RAMON JAIME HOLGUIN PEÑA Daniel Ruiz-Juárez Jorge Luis Vega Chávez Ana Cristina Reyes Godoy (2022, [Artículo])

"Mexico has 159 species of Agave spp. In the agri-food industry stand out are Agave tequilana, A. angustifolia, and A. salmiana. A limitation to producing maguey seedlings is the low availability of organic substrates that favor plant adaptation in the field. The objective was to evaluate the effect of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) found in substrates in response to vegetative and root growth of A. salmiana in agricultural areas of Huichapan, Hidalgo, Mexico. The treatment consisted of earthworm humus (EH) and leaf compost (LC) substrates with materials from the region with different percentages of EH (100, 75, 50%), LC (5, 10%), and sand (20, 40%). The treatments were applied with 14 random replications in two phases in seeds and 40-day-seedlings. The variables evaluated were NPK amount and pH in substrates. The physiological variables measured were plant height, leaf number, stem diameter, root length, and volume. Significant differences (P≤0.05) were observed in seedling physiology due to the effect of the treatment. The best agronomic responses (plant growth and root length/weight) of Agave seedlings were T5 (75% earthworm humus + 20% sand + 5% leaf-soil) and T6 (50% earthworm humus + 40% sand + 10% leaf-soil); in both treatments, the NPK percentages were different from the control (Haplic Phaeozem soil) group. The final concentration of NPK in T6 was N = 0.04%, P = 398.13 mg Kg-1 and K = 11.88 meq 100g-1 . The results infer that NPK availability in soil and progressive acidification (initial pH = 8.6, final pH = 7.4) of the substrate can favorably influence the plant response. The interactions between NPK availability in the substrate and their use for a better response in maguey seedling adaptability open up new lines of research on the productive systems in the región of Huichapan, Hidalgo, Mexico."

maguey, nutritional quality, plant physiology, productive soils, seedling BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (BOTÁNICA) FERTILIDAD DEL SUELO FERTILIDAD DEL SUELO

Fitorremediación asistida a través de bacterias, para suelos contaminados con metales pesados y plaguicidas

TANIA GÓMEZ MORALES (2023, [Otro, Trabajo terminal, especialidad])

El suelo es un recurso no renovable que nos proporciona diferentes beneficios, incluidos los servicios ecosistémicos. Sin embargo, actividades antropogénicas como la minería y la agricultura lo han contaminado. Las prácticas mineras y agrícolas liberan contaminantes como plaguicidas y metales pesados al suelo como contaminantes individuales o mezclas, generando importantes efectos adversos para el ambiente y la salud humana. Debido a esta problemática, se han desarrollado diferentes estrategias de remediación para sitios con presencia de estos co-contaminantes. Una de ellas es la fitorremediación asistida por bacterias, una técnica basada en la asociación de plantas y bacterias, donde ambos organismos se benefician y mejoran la eficiencia de la remediación.

Soil is a non-renewable resource that provides us with different benefits, including ecosystem services. However, anthropogenic activities such as mining and agriculture have contaminated it. Minery and agriculture practices release contaminants such as pesticides and heavy metals into the soil as individual pollutants or mixtures, generating important adverse environmental and human health effects. Due to this problem, different remediation strategies have been developed for sites with the presence of these co-contaminants; one of them is bacterial-assisted phytoremediation, a technique based on the association of plants and bacteria, where both organisms benefit and improve remediation efficiency.

BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA suelo, fitorremediación, bacterias, plaguicidas, metales pesados, co-contaminados. soil, phytoremediation, bacteria, pesticides, heavy metals, co-contaminated