Plant Soil Environ., 2024, 70(2):93-100 | DOI: 10.17221/493/2023-PSE

The relationship of soil sulfur with glomalin-related soil protein and humic substances under different mineral and organic fertilisationOriginal Paper

Pavel Suran1, Jiří Balík1, Martin Kulhánek1, Ondřej Sedlář1, Jindřich Černý1
1 Department of Agro-Environmental Chemistry and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

In recent years, sulfur inputs into the soil have greatly diminished due to the significant decrease in SO2 emissions. Plant nutrients, like sulfur, can be released by the mineralisation of soil organic matter (SOM), which is a complicated mixture of substances (or fractions) like glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) and fulvic acids (FA), humic acids (HA), humic substances (HS) and others. GRSP, FA, HA, and HS content, as well as the content of mineral and organic fractions of sulfur, was determined in different mineral and organic fertiliser treatments of the long-term field experiment. Using these results, the sulfur content in GRSP was calculated based on the soil’s organic matter carbon and soil’s organic bound sulfur (CSOM/SORG) ratio. Sulfur content in GRSP was 4.08–5.46 (easily extractable GRSP), 9.77–15.7 (difficultly extractable GRSP), and 13.9–21.1 (total GRSP) mg S/kg of soil. Overall, the application of the organic fertiliser caused an increase in S content bound to GRSP. A strong significant relationship was also observed between GRSP fractions and soil organic sulfur. A similar relationship was also observed for the HA and HS with organic sulfur.

Keywords: luvisol; fertilization; humus fractions; organic carbon; mineral sulfur

Received: December 19, 2023; Revised: January 10, 2024; Accepted: January 12, 2024; Prepublished online: January 12, 2024; Published: February 12, 2024  Show citation

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Suran P, Balík J, Kulhánek M, Sedlář O, Černý J. The relationship of soil sulfur with glomalin-related soil protein and humic substances under different mineral and organic fertilisation. Plant Soil Environ. 2024;70(2):93-100. doi: 10.17221/493/2023-PSE.
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