Nitrogen and potassium concentrations in the nutrients solution for melon plants growing in coconut fiber without drainage

With the objective of evaluating the effects of N and K concentrations for melon plants, an experiment was carried out from July 1, 2011 to January 3, 2012 in Muzambinho city, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The Bonus no. 2 was cultivated at the spacing of 1.1 × 0.4. The experimental design was a randomized complete block with three replications in a 4 × 4 factorial scheme with four N concentrations (8, 12, 16, and 20 mmol L-1) and four K concentrations (4, 6, 8, and 10 mmol L-1). The experimental plot constituted of eight plants. It was observed that the leaf levels of N and K, of N-NO3 and of K, and the electrical conductivity (CE) of the substrate increased with the increment of N and K in the nutrients' solution. Substratum pH, in general, was reduced with increments in N concentration and increased with increasing K concentrations in the nutrients' solution. Leaf area increased with increments in N concentration in the nutrients solution. Fertigation with solutions stronger in N (20 mmol L-1) and K (10 mmol L-1) resulted in higher masses for the first (968 g) and the second (951 g) fruits and crop yield (4,425 gm-2). © 2013 Luiz Augusto Gratieri et al.

Ação alelopática de saxitoxinas e microcistinas em cianobactérias e microalgas verdes em condições controladas

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Efeito das concentrações de nitrogênio e silício em plantas de milho e de trigo sob cultivo hidropônico

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Produção Vegetal) - FCAV

Sombreamento e aplicação de nitrogênio em plantas jovens de Jatropha curcas L

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Influência do frio e do défice hídrico nas características fisiológicas e bioquímicas em videiras (Vitis vinífera L.) cv. Thompson seedless

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

Caracterização fisiológica e bioquímica da dominância apical em bananeira (Musa acuminata colla)

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Horticultura) - FCA

Copper oxychloride fungicide and its effect on growth and oxidative stress of potato plants

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Applying boron to coconut palm plants: effects on the soil, on the plant nutritional status and on productivity boron to coconut palm trees

Boron, one of the micronutrients frequently found in low levels in tropical soils affects nutrition and productivity of coconut palm trees essentially cultivated in tropical climates. The objective of this research study was to evaluate the effect of boron on the nutritional status of the plant and its productivity when artificially applied to the culture soil. The experiment was carried out in a four year old, artificially irrigated, dwarf coconut palm orchard in Brazil, between January, 2005 and October, 2006. The soil was a red yellow Latosol (B: 0.18 mg dm(-3)). The treatments consisted in the application of five boron dosages: zero, 1, 2, 4, and 6 kg ha(-1). In the field, the treatments were arranged according to a completely randomized block design, with four replications. Boron (borax) dosages were applied in equal halves directly into the soil in the months of January and February of 2005. Boron concentration in the soil and plant and plant productivity were evaluated. The higher palm tree production was associated to levels of 0.6mg dm(-3) of B in the soil and 23.5mg kg(-1) in leaves. Ninety five percent of palm trees maximum production was obtained with the use of a boron dosage of 2,1kg ha(-1).

Rice-Straw Mulch Reduces the Green Peach Aphid, Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae) Populations on Kale, Brassica oleracea var. acephala (Brassicaceae) Plants

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Effects of potassium application and soil moisture on the growth of Corymbia citriodora plants

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Population dynamics of Aceodromus convolvuli (Acari: Mesostigmata: Blattisociidae) on spontaneous plants associated with Jatropha curcas in central Brazil

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Nitrogen metabolism in coffee plants in response to nitrogen supply by fertigation

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Toothpick test: a methodology for the detection of RR soybean plants

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

Silício e amônio na nutrição e no crescimento de brássicas

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Produção Vegetal) - FCAV

Effects of mineral stress on the vegetative development of greenhouse-grown bell pepper plants

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