Izabela Nunes do Nascimento, Gemerson Machado de Oliveira, Mileny dos Santos de Souza, Gilmar da Silva Nunes, Antonio Carlos Leite Alves, Heloísa Martins de Araújo & Jacinto de Luna Batista·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
The capture of insects through luminous sources can represent another option for integrated pest management (IPM). The purpose of this study was to verify the attractiveness of different-colored Light-Emitting Diodes (LED) on adult Spodoptera frugiperda. The research was conducte...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43402
Rice blast caused by Magnaporthe grisea is one of the most serious diseases of rice, causing yield losses of 50 – 100% in susceptible varieties worldwide. Durable host resistance has been hard to achieve given large pathogen diversity and capacity of pathogen to mutate. It has be...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42551
Paulo Fernando Marques Cavalcanti-Filho, Diego Corona Baitelle, Sílvio de Jesus Freitas, Waldinei Souza da Silva, Paulo Cesar dos Santos, Sávio da Silva Berilli & Silvério de Paiva Freitas·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
Aims: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the application of potassium silicate (K2SiO3) on the acclimatization of arabica coffee seedlings, under shaded and full sun conditions. Study Design: Randomized block design, with the treatments arranged in the sub...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43307
Cassiana Felipe de Sousa, Leilson Costa Grangeiro, Valdivia de Fátima Lima de Sousa, Jader Vieira Carneiro, Jorge Luis Alves Silva & Lucas Pereira Gomes·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
Aims: The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of nitrogen utilization by corn cultivars for the production of green ears. Study Design: Treatments were constituted by the combination of two nitrogen doses (0 and 90 kg ha-1 N) and three corn cultivars (Cruzeta,...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42505
The primary goal of this study was to evaluate the phosphorus uptake and use efficiency in Brazilian soybean cultivars, besides root morphology and architecture characteristics related to phosphorus uptake, carrying out two greenhouse experiments. The experiment 1 was completely...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43230
Aims: To investigate the status of microelements in the selected expanding rice production project irrigation schemes in Unguja and Pemba Islands, Zanzibar Study Design: Standard grid soil survey Place and Duration of Study: Unguja and Pemba Isles Zanzibar during October and Dec...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42668
Aims: Two field trials were conducted to investigate the effect of inter-row spacing on the growth and yield of cowpea. Study Design: The first trial was set up as a randomized complete block design with three replications. The second trial was set up as a split-plot arrangement...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43091
Aims: It was aimed to investigate the relationship between two climatic parameters, temperature and relative humidity, and the flower-cutting interval of mangoes tree cv. Kent Study Design: The experimental design used was the completely randomized design with triplicate. Place...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43153
Robson Prucoli Posse, Francielly Valani, Carlos Alberto Spaggiari Souza, Sheila Cristina Prucoli Posse, Ramom Amaro de Sales, Evandro Chaves de Oliveira, Waylson Zancanella Quartezani & Marta Cristina Teixeira Leite·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
The temperature is one of the climatic factors of greater importance in the physiological processes of the plants, being directly related to its growth and development, which need a thermal accumulation to complete its phenological cycles. The objective of this work was to evalua...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43321
Field experiments were conducted at Horticulture Section of Kabba College of Agriculture to investigate the effects of different rates of cow dung manure on the growth and yield of three varieties of jute mallow. The experiment was a factorial, consisted of four levels of cow dun...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/27798