Análise de desenvolvimento do tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1818) (Pisces, Serrasalmidae), utilizando a massa de mandioca branca, Manihot esculenta (Crantz) como complemento alimentar em viveiros de piscicultura em área de várzea

O Estado possui condições favoráveis para o desenvolvimento da piscicultura, que se constituirá numa alternativa para a produção de proteínas de origem animal, capaz de auxiliar na redução dos acentuados déficits encontrados na dieta alimentar da população paraense de baixa renda, assim como, minimizar os problemas pontuais causados pela sobrepesca e poluição química. E as várzeas da Amazônia brasileira, constituem-se então, num grande potencial para o desenvolvimento da piscicultura racional, mantendo a sustentabilidade do ecossistema através de tecnologias de manejo, em substituição aos métodos extrativistas tradicionais e predatórios. Um dos principais entraves da piscicultura é o elevado custo a ração que chega a compor até 80% do custo total da atividade, visto que não existe uma dieta com produtos regionais que baixasse esse custo, O custo das rações extrusadas ofertadas na região extrapola o limite da economia, devido principalmente à agregação do frete, vista a escassez das indústrias locais, assim como os altos preços dos principais insumos, notadamente em se tratando da fração protéica que é mais onerosa da dieta. Com base nessa realidade, a região Amazônica lança mão de subprodutos da agroindústria de fácil aquisição e baixo custo, para minimizar os gastos com a piscicultura e garantir a presença do peixe na mesa da população, que é o alimento mais consumido. No experimento a espécie utilizada foi o tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum é uma espécie ideal para piscicultura em área de várzea em virtude da sua rusticidade. Com isso o estudo de dietas alternativas possibilita um cultivo que viabilize economicamente a prática. O experimento foi realizado na área de várzea da UFRA, onde foram submetidos a 3 tratamentos, onde: V1) foi ministrado ração extrusada 28% P.B.; V2) ração comercial extrusada 28% parcelada com massa de mandioca branca e V3) foi ministrado massa de mandioca branca. Ao final do experimento observou-se que o viveiro onde foi ministrado ração comercial apresentou melhor desempenho zootécnico, porém o viveiro 2 onde foi ministrado ração comercial extrusada 28% parcelada com massa de mandioca branca apresentou um desempenho similar ao anterior, obtendo consumo 50% menor de ração extrusada.

Differential Expression of Myogenic Regulatory Factor Genes in the Skeletal Muscles of Tambaqui Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier 1818) from Amazonian Black and Clear Water

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

Influência do volume reduzido e do estádio fenológico da planta de soja no controle da Anticarsia gemmatalis (Hübner, 1818)

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Entomologia Agrícola) - FCAV

Índices climáticos e infestação predial por larvas de Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) e Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894) em Araçatuba-sp Brasil

Aedes is synanthropic; associated with climatic conditions and urban environment. This study performed a retrospective evaluation of the climatic indices and the A. aeypti and A. albopictus infestation larvae rates (IP), registered from the month of October, 2005 to 2009, in the Araçatuba city, São Paulo State. There was no variation in the average temperature in the period (26.3°C). The rain falls were high in 2005 (133.5 mm3 ) fell in 2006, 2007 and 2008 (55.0 mm3 , 78.5 mm3 and 79.0 mm3 , respectively) and increased in 2009 (104.0 mm3 ). The infestation IP was 1.10, 1.39, 0.36, 0.28 and 3.30, respectively in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, none of them were A. albopictus larvae. There was no association between IP and temperature, but there was significant difference (P <0.001) between the IP of 2009, with the IP of 2007 and 2008. This study it was concluded that among the environmental factors just rain influenced the rate of larvae, "infestation", committed only by A. aegypti.

Potencial do controle biológico para o controle de Pseudoplusia includens (Walker, 1857) e Anticarsia gemmatalis Hubner, 1818 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) em soja

The soybean (Glycine max) is of great importance to national economic scenario being a major Brazilian agribusiness products. In most regions, the caterpillar-of-soy (Anticarsia gemmatalis) and caterpillar-false-Medideira (Pseudoplusia includes), act as defoliators, with the highest incidence, usually during the growing season, until the end of flowering, and thus causing a significant reduction in the production, which requires control measures. Due to market demands and the large external environmental awareness exists today, the methods of ecological management have been highlighted in modern agriculture. The use of chemical insecticides, besides being harmful to the environment and man, is, in most cases, the high cost to the farmer. The biological pest control using natural enemies can be used as an alternative control method. Thus this literature review is intended to provide the updated information about these pests and biological control as an alternative form of control, as well as one more tool in the integrated pest of soybean.

EC90-1762 Nut Tree Cultivars for Nebraska

Proper nut cultivar (variety) selection is important for successful and satisfying results from the home gardener's efforts. Selection should be determined by personal preferences, available space, and intended use of the nuts. Harvest can be spread over several weeks if cultivars with different periods of maturity are planted. It is important that homeowners select the nut plants or cultivars best adapted for cultivation in their area of the state. This extension circular covers how to select a nut cultivar, the plant hardiness zones, horticultural regions, and length of growing season. It contains a list of all nut cultivars suited for growing in the state of Nebraska.

Morphological structure of the liver in tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1818)

This research aimed to describe the macroscopic and microscopic liver of tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum, Teleost freshwater Family Characidae, of great economic interest for the Amazon basin. We used six juveniles aged between six month and one year, from the small holding Esteio, Alta Floresta/MT, that develops mainly fish farming. The body was photographed in situ, described macroscopically, and fragments were removed and processed by routine histological techniques through paraffin embedding and HE staining. The liver, located ventrally to the swim bladder and craniodorsally to the stomach, is brownish red and consisted of three lobes, the right lateral, the left lateral and the ventral lobe. Microscopically, the parenchyma consists of hepatocytes varying from irregular rounded hexagonal to round forms with a large and central nucleus, and arranged in linear strings limited by sinusoids and radiating to central veins, but with absence of liver lobules. The central veins are distributed throughout the parenchyma, while the portal space consists in most cases only of a hepatic vein and bile duct; elsewhere exist artery and duct. Formation of portal triads was not founde. Melano macrophages were frequently seen dispersed throughout the central parenchyma. The morphofunctional study of the digestive system of fishes of the Amazon basin is important to obtain knowledge about their weight gain, large scale production for human consumption and preservation of the species, and has also its importance for being used as bioindicators today.

Book Review of “The Origins of Social Work: Continuity and Change”. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, by Malcolm Payne

Malcolm Payne’s latest work proposes to survey the continuity and change in social work from its inception and origins, up until the present day. In order to do justice to the theme, its author could have concentrated on developing a narrative of a national enterprise, or restricted himself to a regional analysis (Western European Social Work) or opt instead for a more narrowly focused cultural exploration, White Anglo-Saxon Social Work (WASSW). One can only infer that limiting himself in this fashion would have struck the author as parochial, or rather, that only a truly global enterprise could satisfy his capacious mind. One is left to marvel at the invocation of Darwin’s great work and wonder what was the process of the author’s “natural” selection of this material.

Elegie als Frau Francisca, Freyinn von Arnstein, geb. Itzig, am 8. Juny 1818 uns entrissen wurde

(Verf.[[Elektronische Ressource]] : Riedinger)

Festschrift zum hundertjährigen Bestehen des Israelitischen Tempels in Hamburg 1818 - 1918

hrsg. von D. Leimdörfer