Book Chapter

Response of Leucaena leucocephala to inoculation in a soil of pH 5.5

author(s)

Almeida, J.E.

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  • Brazil
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Almeida, J.E.; Valarini, Maria José; Lopes, Eli Sidney. 1982. Response of Leucaena leucocephala to inoculation in a soil of pH 5.5 . In: Graham, Peter H.; Harris, Susan C. (eds.). Biological nitrogen fixation technology for tropical agriculture: Papers presented at workshop held at CIAT, March 9-13, 1981 . Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, CO. p. 455-457. (CIAT series no. 03E-5(82)

A glasshouse experiment compared the performance of strains of Rhizobium with Leucaena leucocephala in a "cerrado" soil limed to pH 5.5. Liming increased dry matter production, but variation within replicates was so great that increases in nodule dry weight and N2 fixed were not statistically significant.