With the objective to evaluate the desorption of phosphorus by silicon in surface layers of a Dark-Red Latosol (Oxisol) under cerrado vegetation and Cambisol (Inceptisol), under open cerrado vegetation at Campos das Vertentes physiographical region State Minas Gerais, experiments were carried out under greenhouse conditions at the Soil Science Department of the Federal University of Lavras, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, from August 1997 to May 1998. Each soil was submitted to three sequential incubations: (a) CaCO3 + MgCO3 to maintain the pH around 6.0; (b) basic fertilization, including phosphorus in one dose calculated to maintain 0.2 mg L-1 of P in soil solution; and (c) six silicon (CaSiO3) doses defined with basis on phosphorus dose. Seedlings of Eucalyptus grandis were cultivated during 120 days in pots with 3 dm³ of soil. Dry matter production and dry matter P content were evaluated at 60, 90 and 120 days after seedling transplanting to the pots. Response surfaces of these variables were adjusted as a function of Si doses and times. The desorbed P contributed with 15.25% of the content of this nutrient in dry matter of plants cultivated in the Cambisol (higher content of kaolinite).
Eucalyptus; Oxisol; Inceptisol; Eucalyptus