Efeito de níveis de nitrogênio e fósforo no desenvolvimento de mudas de guaranazeiro (Paullinia cupana (Mart.) Ducke), em condições de viveiro

Com objetivo de se estudar o efeito de níveis de nitrogênio e fósforo, no desenvolvimento de mudas de cinco progênies de guaranazeiros (Paullinia cupana var. sorbilis (Mart.) Ducke) em condições de viveiro, foi conduzido um ensaio, na área experimental da EMBRAPA (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária) localizada em Porto Velho, Rondônia. O delineamento utilizado foi inteiramente casualizado, constituído de 135 plantas úteis, com nove tratamentos e três repetições. Os resultados obtidos permitiram concluir que: a) o tratamento N1P2 correspondente a 2,92 gramas de uréia e 5,20 gramas de superfosfato triplo, aplicados por planta, foi o melhor para todos os parâmetros avaliados; b) as progênies 16 e 13 apresentaram um maior potencial de desenvolvimento, em relação as demais progênies testadas, vindo a seguir a progênie 29.

Tifo exantemático neotrópico no Brasil: ensaios terapêuticos com a penicilina

The authors described the experiments with Penicillin Merck-Sodium Salt n. 135 in order to verify the curative action on the experimental disesase of the guineapig. I - They found that small doses, of 1,600 units, Oxford, when inoculated during the first 24 or 48 hours of the appearance of the feverish reaction are impotent to modify the course of the disease, whether in the thermic curve, or the testicular or esplenomegalic manifestations. II - Penicillin, when used in larger doses, from 25,000 to 30,000 units, Oxford, in 24 hours through peritonial cavity is capable of normalising the temperature, modifying to a certain degree the virulence of the virus in guinea-pigs. III - In large doses, even when injected later, it causes the temperature to fall, in all animals, attenuating the viceral manifestations. IV - Direct contact of Penicillin with the virus, during many hours, cause it to loose its virulence.

Infective stages of Leishmania in the sandfly vector and some observations on the mechanism of transmission

Infective stages of Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis, capable of producing amastigote infections in hamster skin, were shown to be present in the experimentally infected sandfly vector Lutzomyia flaviscutellata 15, 25, 40, 49, 70, 96 and 120 hours after the flies had received their infective blood-meal. Similarly, infective stages of Leishmania (L.) chagasi were demonstrated in the experimentally infected vector Lu. longipalpis examined 38, 50, 63, 87, 110, 135, 171 and 221 hours following the infective blood-meal, by the intraperitoneal inoculation of the flagellates into hamsters. The question of whether or not transmission by the bite of the sandfly is dependent on the presence of [quot ]metacyclic[quot ] promastigotes in the mouthparts of the vector is discussed.