Uso de Ascophyllum nodosum para o enraizamento de microestacas de eucalipto

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Irrigação e Drenagem) - FCA

Caracterização morfológica de frutos e sementes e desenvolvimento pós-seminal de monjoleiro (Acacia polyphylla DC.)

Acacia polyphylla DC. é uma espécie arbórea, característica dos estádios iniciais da sucessão secundária, de ocorrência natural no Brasil. Pertence à família Leguminosae-Mimosoideae, sendo recomendada em programas de reflorestamento misto, recuperação de áreas degradadas e manejo de fragmentos florestais. Entretanto, não foi encontrado nenhuma referência que fizesse menção aos aspectos químicos e morfológicos das sementes, bem como, aos aspectos do desenvolvimento pós-seminal desta espécie. Assim sendo, o presente trabalho objetivou caracterizar morfologicamente e ilustrar frutos e sementes, quantificar alguns componentes químicos presentes nas sementes e descrever as diferentes fases do desenvolvimento pós-seminal. Para tanto, foram realizadas descrições associadas às estruturas externa e interna das sementes. As descrições morfológicas dos frutos e das sementes foram efetuadas em relação a forma, ao tamanho, a superfície, a micrópila e a forma e a localização do embrião. Para a descrição morfológica das plântulas, as sementes foram colocadas para germinar em meio de cultura Murashige & Skoog reduzido à metade da concentração e incubadas a temperatura de 25ºC, sendo descritas e ilustradas as plântulas normais e anormais. O fruto é uma vagem deiscente contendo de oito a 16 sementes achatadas, de tegumento testal, embrião axial e invaginado. A germinação das sementes é epígea e as plântulas fanerocotiledonares.

Ecologia da polinização de Ipomoea asarifolia (Ders.) Roem. & Schult. (Convolvulaceae) na região semi-árida de Pernambuco

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Ontogenic development of Guazuma ulmifolia (Sterculiaceae) sapplings

Guazuma ulmifolia is as popular reforestation tree all over Latin America. It is characteristic of the initial stages of the secondary sucession and presents potential utility in the restoring of degraded areas. There is no information about fruit,seed and seedling morphology, which is of fundamental importance for identification, extraction, management and seed germination as well as for the characterization of post-seminal development and normal seedling pattern. To obtain such information, external fruit, and external and internal seed structures were studied considering shape, size, micropile and embryo localization; and tegumentar structures. All stages of this work were conduced in the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Campus of Jaboticabal city. The fruits were collected in a mixed plantation in Jaboticabal city, State of São Paulo, Brazil. For the bio metric study eight repetitions of ten fruits and eight repetitions of 100 seeds were utilized. For seed internal traits study, 50 seeds were drenched in a distiled water, cut, and observed with a scanning electron microscope and a stereomicroscope, For post-seminal study ten repetitions of seven seeds were scarificated chemically with sulphuric acid during 50 min, and placed to germinate ina culture medium, at 30 degrees C, and eight hours of photoperiod. We found elipsoid, woody, indehiscent, pentacarpelar fruits, with a mean lenght of 22.61 mm (diameter 24.88 mm) and 64.0 seeds per fruit. Seed shape varies, mean length is 3.07 mm (width of 2.36 mm). The seed is bitegumented, tegmic, with a continuous, axial and curved embryo. The germination is epigeal and the seedlings are fanerocotiledoneus. Drawings of all stages are included.

Desarrollo ontogénico de plántulas de Guazuma ulmifolia (Sterculiaceae)

Guazuma ulmifolia is as popular reforestation tree all over Latin America. It is characteristic of the initial stages of the secondary sucession and presents potential utility in the restoring of degraded areas. There is no information about fruit, seed and seedling morphology, which is of fundamental importance for identification, extraction, management and seed germination as well as for the characterization of post-seminal development and normal seedling pattern. To obtain such information, external fruit, and external and internal seed structures were studied considenng shape, size, micropile and embryo localization, and tegumentar structures. All stages of this work were conduced in the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Campus of Jaboticabal city. The fruits were collected in a mixed plantation in Jaboticabal city, State of São Paulo, Brazil. For the biometric study eight repetitions of ten fruits and eight repetitions of 100 seeds were utilized. For seed internal traits study, 50 seeds were drenched in a distiled water, cut, and observed with a scanning electron microscope and a stereomicroscope. For post-seminal study ten repetitions of seven seeds were scarificated chemically with sulphuric acid during 50 min, and placed to germinate in a culture medium, at 30°C, and eight hours of photoperiod. We found elipsoid, woody, indehiscent, pentacarpelar fruits, with a mean lenght of 22.61 mm (diameter 24.88 mm) and 64.0 seeds per fruit. Seed shape varies, mean length is 3.07 mm (width of 2.36 mm).The seed is bitegumented, tegmic, with a continuous, axial and curved embryo. The germination is epigeal and the seedlings are fanerocotiledoneus. Drawings of all stages are included.