Factors Influencing Expression of Antixenosis in Soybean to Anticarsia gemmatalis and Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Floral nectar production and nectary structure of a bee-pollinated shrub from Neotropical savanna

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Occurrence of Atta laevigata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the South of Espirito Santo State, Brazil. Recently Introduced or Endangered Species?

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Efeito da adubação fosfatada e da calagem nas relações de interferência entre plantas de soja e capim-marmelada

Com o objetivo de estudar os efeitos da calagem e da adubação fosfatada sobre o crescimento de plantas de soja e capim-marmelada e, o reflexo destas práticas nas relações de interferência entre a planta daninha e a planta cultivada. O estudo foi conduzido em casa-devegetação por um período de 49 dias. Utilizaramse vasos de 4 litros, contendo substrato retirado de um LR-distrófico. O delineamento experimental adotado foi o inteiramente casualizado, com quatro repetições. Os tratamentos foram dispostos em um esquema fatorial 2x3x4, onde tinha-se: dois níveis de calagem (presença e ausência), três condições de vegetação nos vasos (soja cultivada isolada, planta daninha cultivada isolada e a convivência das espécies) e quatro doses de aplicação de fósforo (0, 50,100 e 200 ppm) no substrato. A calagem incrementou a altura, o número de trifólios, os teores de clorofila a e b, a biomassa seca e a área foliar das plantas de soja e, proporcionou decréscimos na altura, no número de perfilhos e no acúmulo de matéria seca de plantas de capim-marmelada. A interferência imposta pelo capim-marmelada reduziu a altura de plantas, o número de trifólios , os teores de clorofila a, o acúmulo de matéria seca e a área foliar das plantasde soja. de forma oposta, a competição imposta pela soja determinou decréscimos na altura, no número de perfilhos, nos teores de clorofila a e b, no acúmulo de matéria seca e na área foliar das plantas de capim-marmelada. Já, a adubação fosfatada incrementou a altura, o número de perfilhos, o acúmulo de matéria seca e a área foliar das plantas de capim-marmelada.

Mating in the pseudogamic apomictic Anemopaegma acutifolium DC: Another case of pseudo-self-compatibility in Bignoniaceae?

Self-compatibility in apomictic pseudogamic species is considered fundamental to assure reproduction by seeds in extreme situations, making apomictic species more advantageous than sexual ones in these scenarios. Anemopaegma acutifolium is a polyploidy, apomictic sporophytic species with no endosperm development in ovules of unpollinated pistils, which indicates obligate pseudogamy. Thus, the aim of the present work is to study the breeding system and post-pollination events to test if there is similar pseudogamous development irrespective of pollination treatment. We analysed fruit and seed set obtained in controlled experimental pollinations, as well as embryo number per seed, and the progress of ovule penetration, fertilisation and early endosperm development between self- and cross-pollinated pistils. We found that the species is self-fertile and that spontaneous selfing fruit set is also possible, although emasculated flowers never form fruits. Selfed pistils were as efficient as crossed ones for all parameters analysed, except for a delay in endosperm development observed in the former that may be an effect of the late-acting self-incompatibility. Therefore, the avoidance of selfed pistil abortion seems to be promoted by the presence of adventitious embryos and a normal endosperm. We conclude that A. acutifolium shows apomixis-related pseudo-self-compatibility, as in other self-fertile apomictic species of Bignoniaceae, which confer reproductive assurance and increases fruit-set and persistence ability in fast-changing tropical habitats. © 2012 German Botanical Society and The Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands.

Dispersão do parasitóide de ovos Telenomus remus (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) e sua interação com algumas variáveis ambientais em agroecossistemas de algodoeiro (Gossypium hirsutum L.)

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Escolhas de letras nas primeiras escritas infantis: função e unidade no discurso

The article deals, initially, from a theoretical point of view, the concept of function in the perspective of Vygotsky (2001), and functional equivalence from the point of view of Smith (1989) and articulates them with the letter funcion in the construction of words in discursive statements. Taking as reference these concepts, it was analysed writings of a student in early literacy at a school in a countryside city in the state of São Paulo, in a situation of writing letters of personal correspondence, whose data were collected in 2009 in order to determine which letters are chosen by the student and why they are chosen to record the speech. The concept of function in Vygotsky and the functional equivalence of Smith (1989) used for the analysis of corpus, revealed that the student’s decisions are characterized by diversity sources and criteria, and rely mainly on the basis that a letter can have the constitution of the word, in the process of enunciation, regardless of their phonetic correspondence. The letter, used as a basis, would lose its status as strictly technical element to achieve the status of a unit of sense since is a constituent part of discourse.

Pertencer e deslocar virtualmente: Teletandem como espaço antropofágico

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Diets of tadpoles from a temporary pond in southeastern Brazil (Amphibia, Anura)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Pragmatismo e Semiótica de Peirce na organização da informação

Semiotics, as well as its theoretical root, Pragmatism, are associated with the figure of the logical and the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839- 1914). Between Pragmatism and Semiotics, there is an embryonic link, and this connection should not be ignored when reflecting on their theoretical contributions the Information Science and, specifically, to knowledge organization. Initially, the relationship between Pragmatism and Semiotics of C. S. Peirce is explored. Subsequently, two contributions of Peirce, both fundamental to understand some aspects of the organization of information and knowledge, are carefully discussed.