Table 1.
Total nitrogen and among fractions, 15N excess and macro and micronutrient concentration of plant (VO) and animal (AO) based organic fertilizer (mg·L-1) §, †.
Fig 1.
Distribution of dry biomass (g DW plant-1) among the main organs of Nules clementine trees harvested in December (at dormancy) receiving vegetal (VO) or animal-based (AO) organic fertilizer and their respective mineral controls (VMC and AMC, vegetal and animal mineral controls, respectively)*.
Fig 2.
Nitrogen concentration (a) in new flush leaves (NFL) and total content in whole tree (b) of Nules clementine trees harvested in December (at dormancy) receiving vegetal (VO) or animal-derived (AO) organic fertilizer and their respective mineral controls (VMC and AMC, vegetal and animal mineral controls, respectively)*.
Table 2.
Nitrogen uptake efficiency (NUE) in whole tree and nitrogen recovered in different soil fractions of Nules clementine trees harvested in December (at dormancy) receiving vegetal (VO) or animal-derived (AO) liquid organic fertilizer and their respective mineral controls (VMC and AMC, vegetal and animal mineral controls, respectively) §.
Fig 3.
Nitrogen derived from fertilizer (Ndff, %) in (a) new flush leaves (NFL) and (b) whole tree of Nules clementine trees harvested in December (at dormancy) receiving vegetal (VO) or animal-derived (AO) liquid organic fertilizer and their respective mineral controls (VMC and AMC, vegetal and animal mineral controls, respectively)*.
Fig 4.
Macronutrient concentration (% DW) in new flush leaves (a) and total content (g) in whole tree (b) of Nules clementine trees harvested in December (at dormancy) receiving vegetal (VO) or animal-derived (AO) organic fertilizer and their respective mineral controls (VMC and AMC, vegetal and animal mineral controls, respectively)*. *, †See Fig 1.
Fig 5.
Micronutrient concentration (% DW) in new flush leaves (a) and total content (g) in whole tree (b) of Nules clementine trees harvested in December (at dormancy) receiving vegetal (VO) or animal-derived (AO) organic fertilizer and their respective mineral controls (VMC and AMC, vegetal and animal mineral controls, respectively)*. *, †See Fig 1.
Fig 6.
Carbon fixation in whole tree of Nules clementine trees receiving vegetal (VO) or animal-based (AO) organic fertilizer and their respective mineral controls harvested in December (at dormancy).
Each value is an average of five plants ± standard error. †, ‡See Fig 1.
Table 3.
Soluble carbohydrate contents (g 100 g-1 DW) among the main flushes of Nules clementine trees harvested in December (at dormancy) receiving vegetal (VO) or animal-derived (AO) liquid organic fertilizer and their respective mineral controls (VMC and AMC, vegetal and animal mineral controls, respectively) §.
Table 4.
Effect of vegetal (VO) or animal-derived (AO) liquid organic fertilizers and their respective mineral controls (VMC and AMC, vegetal and animal mineral controls, respectively) on soil characteristics at the end of the growing cycle§.
Fig 7.
Nitrogen concentration in different N fractions in soils receiving vegetal (VO) or animal-based (AO) organic fertilizer and their respective mineral controls (VMC and AMC, vegetal and animal mineral controls, respectively)*. *, †, ‡See Fig 1.