TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of pest controlling neem and mata-raton leaf extracts on greenhouse gas emissions from urea-amended soil cultivated with beans
T2 - A greenhouse experiment
AU - Méndez-Bautista, Joaquín
AU - Fernández-Luqueño, Fabián
AU - López-Valdez, Fernando
AU - Mendoza-Cristino, Reyna
AU - Montes-Molina, Joaquín A.
AU - Gutierrez-Miceli, Federico A.
AU - Dendooven, L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was funded by the Department of Biotechnology and Bioengineering Cinvestav (México). F.F.-L. and F.L.-V. received grant-aided support from ‘ Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) ’ while J.M.-B. from ‘ Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) ’ México.
PY - 2010/10
Y1 - 2010/10
N2 - In a previous laboratory experiment, extracts of neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) and Gliricidia sepium Jacquin, locally known as mata-raton, used to control pests on crops, inhibited emissions of CO2 from a urea-amended soil, but not nitrification and N2O emissions. We investigated if these extracts when applied to beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) affected their development, soil characteristics and emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) in a greenhouse environment. Untreated beans and beans planted with lambda-cyhalothrin, a commercial insecticide, served as controls. After 117days, shoots of plants cultivated in soil amended with urea or treated with lambda-cyhalothrin, or extracts of neem or G. sepium were significantly higher than when cultivated in the unamended soil, while the roots were significantly longer when plants were amended with urea or treated with leaf extracts of neem or G. sepium than when treated with lambda-cyhalothrin. The number of pods, fresh and dry pod weight and seed yield was significantly higher when bean plants were treated with leaf extracts of neem or G. sepium treatments than when left untreated and unfertilized. The number of seeds was similar for the different treatments. The number of nodules was lower in plants fertilized with urea, treated with leaf extracts of neem or G. sepium, or with lambda-cyhalothrin compared to the unfertilized plants. The concentrations of NH4+, NO23 and NO33 decreased significantly over time with the lowest concentrations generally found at harvest. Treatment had no significant effect on the concentrations of NH4+ and NO22, but the concentration of NO33 was significantly lower in the unfertilized soil compared to the other treatments. It was found that applying extracts of neem or G. sepium leaves to beans favored their development when compared to untreated plants, but had no significant effect on nitrification in soil.
AB - In a previous laboratory experiment, extracts of neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) and Gliricidia sepium Jacquin, locally known as mata-raton, used to control pests on crops, inhibited emissions of CO2 from a urea-amended soil, but not nitrification and N2O emissions. We investigated if these extracts when applied to beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) affected their development, soil characteristics and emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) in a greenhouse environment. Untreated beans and beans planted with lambda-cyhalothrin, a commercial insecticide, served as controls. After 117days, shoots of plants cultivated in soil amended with urea or treated with lambda-cyhalothrin, or extracts of neem or G. sepium were significantly higher than when cultivated in the unamended soil, while the roots were significantly longer when plants were amended with urea or treated with leaf extracts of neem or G. sepium than when treated with lambda-cyhalothrin. The number of pods, fresh and dry pod weight and seed yield was significantly higher when bean plants were treated with leaf extracts of neem or G. sepium treatments than when left untreated and unfertilized. The number of seeds was similar for the different treatments. The number of nodules was lower in plants fertilized with urea, treated with leaf extracts of neem or G. sepium, or with lambda-cyhalothrin compared to the unfertilized plants. The concentrations of NH4+, NO23 and NO33 decreased significantly over time with the lowest concentrations generally found at harvest. Treatment had no significant effect on the concentrations of NH4+ and NO22, but the concentration of NO33 was significantly lower in the unfertilized soil compared to the other treatments. It was found that applying extracts of neem or G. sepium leaves to beans favored their development when compared to untreated plants, but had no significant effect on nitrification in soil.
KW - Azadirachta indica (A. Juss.)
KW - Bioinsecticide
KW - Dynamics of C and inorganic N
KW - Gliricidia sepium (Jacquin)
KW - Lambda-cyhalothrin
KW - Phaseolus vulgaris (L.)
KW - Soil water content
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77956060264&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.07.024
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.07.024
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0048-9697
VL - 408
SP - 4961
EP - 4968
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
IS - 21
ER -