Germinação e incidência de fungos em testes com sementes de Brachiaria brizantha Stapf.

The present research was carried out to evaluate the effects of sulphuric acid scarification and fungicide (thiabendazol, captan, thiram and iprodione + thiram) applications on germination tests of B. brizantha and on mycroflora development associated with those tests. In germination tests mycroflora were identified and evaluated on the 10th and the 21st day; at the same time blotter tests were carried out to study the microflora. Interpretations of the results showed that sulphuric acid scarification did not increase significantly the germination but checked fungi development and showed less efficiency than fungicides. Among these the mixture of iprodione and thiram provided the best results. The following fungi were identified: Alternaria tenuis, Aspergülus spp., Cladosporium sp., Curvularia sp., Drechslera spp., Epicoccum sp., Fusarium sp., Neurospora monilia, Penicillium sp., Phoma sp., Rhizopus sp., Trichothecium sp. e Trichoconiella padwikii.O presente trabalho teve por objetivo estudar o efeito da escarifícação com ácido sulfúrico e da aplicação de fungicidas (thiabendazol, captan, thiram e iprodione + thiram) nos resultados dos testes de germinação e no desenvolvimento de microrganismos sobre sementes de B. brizantha. Além dos testes de germinação, os quais foram avaliados quanto à incidência de microrganismos aos 10 e 21 dias, conduziram-se testes de sanidade, procurando-se identificar a microflora presente. A análise dos dados e interpretação dos resultados permitiram as seguintes conclusões: a escarificação com o ácido não promoveu acréscimo significativo na germinação, tendo contribuído para a redução do nível de incidência de fungos ao se comparar com a testemunha. Os fungicidas aplicados sobre as sementes escarificadas contribuíram para uma melhor germinação e para a redução na ocorrência de microrganismos, destacando-se a mistura iprodione + thiram. O uso dos fungicidas também facilitou a interpretação dos testes de germinação. Foram encontrados os seguintes fungos: Alternaria tenuis, Aspergillus spp., Cladosporium sp., Curvularia sp., Drechslera sp.p, Epicoccum sp., Fusarium sp., Neurospora monilia, Penicillium sp., Phoma sp., Rhizopus sp., Trichothecium sp. e Trichoconiella padwikii

Huge metastability in high-T_c superconductors induced by parallel magnetic field

We present a study of the temperature-magnetic field phase diagram of homogeneous and inhomogeneous superconductivity in the case of a quasi-two-dimensional superconductor with an extended saddle point in the energy dispersion under a parallel magnetic field. At low temperature, a huge metastability region appears, limited above by a steep superheating critical field (H_sh) and below by a strongly reentrant supercooling field (H_sc). We show that the Pauli limit (H_p) for the upper critical magnetic field is strongly enhanced due to the presence of the Van Hove singularity in the density of states. The formation of a non-uniform superconducting state is predicted to be very unlikely.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev.

Measurement of the polarisation of W bosons produced with large transverse momentum in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

This paper describes an analysis of the angular distribution of W->enu and W->munu decays, using data from pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2010, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 35 pb^-1. Using the decay lepton transverse momentum and the missing transverse energy, the W decay angular distribution projected onto the transverse plane is obtained and analysed in terms of helicity fractions f0, fL and fR over two ranges of W transverse momentum (ptw): 35 < ptw < 50 GeV and ptw > 50 GeV. Good agreement is found with theoretical predictions. For ptw > 50 GeV, the values of f0 and fL-fR, averaged over charge and lepton flavour, are measured to be : f0 = 0.127 +/- 0.030 +/- 0.108 and fL-fR = 0.252 +/- 0.017 +/- 0.030, where the first uncertainties are statistical, and the second include all systematic effects.Comment: 19 pages plus author list (34 pages total), 9 figures, 11 tables, revised author list, matches European Journal of Physics C versio