Uniformity trial size in estimates of plot size in restrict areas

ABSTRACTThe aim of this study was to determine the uniformity trial size when estimating optimum plot size in order to evaluate fresh phytomass in lettuce plants and fruit weight in sweet peppers. Production data, collected in uniformity trial on lettuce in a plastic greenhouse in both summer and winter, lettuce in plastic tunnels in autumn and winter, and sweet pepper in a plastic greenhouse in the summer-autumn and spring-summer seasons, were used to plan different uniformity trial sizes in crop rows. In all the experiments, each plant was evaluated individually and considered as a basic experimental unit. For each size in a uniformity trial, 3,000 resamples, randomly taken with replacement, were used to estimate optimum plot size. Uniformity trial using 27 basic experimental units to evaluate the fresh phytomass of lettuce plants, and with 29 basic experimental units to assess fruit weight in sweet pepper, are sufficient to estimate optimum plot size, with an amplitude of the 95% confidence interval of less than or equal to two basic experimental units

Produtividade de alface e qualidade de mudas de tomateiro com bioproduto de batata Lettuce productivity and quality of tomato seedlings with potato bioproduct

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o efeito da aplicação de Acrescent Foliar®, proveniente da fermentação alcoolica de batata, na produtividade de alface e na qualidade de mudas de tomateiro. Foram conduzidos a campo dois experimentos com a cultura da alface, em delineamento blocos ao acaso com três repetições, e dois experimentos em ambiente protegido com mudas de tomateiro, em bandejas de poliestireno expandido de 128 células, em delineamento inteiramente casualizado com quatro repetições. Foram avaliados a fitomassa fresca e a fitomassa seca da parte aérea da alface, a altura da planta, o diâmetro do caule, o número de folhas, a fitomassa fresca de raiz, a fitomassa fresca de parte aérea, a fitomassa seca de parte aérea e a relação entre a fitomassa fresca de parte aérea e de raiz nas mudas de tomateiro. A adubação foliar com Acrescent Foliar® não influencia na produtividade da alface e confere às mudas de tomateiro características indesejáveis como redução da fitomassa fresca de raiz e aumento da relação entre a fitomassa fresca de parte aérea e de raiz.The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of application of Acrescent Foliar® derived of alcoholic fermentation of potato, in lettuce productivity and in quality of tomato seedlings. Two experiments were conducted in field with lettuce crop in a randomized block design with three replications and, two experiments were conducted in greenhouse with production of tomato seedlings in polystyrene trays with 128 cells in a complete randomized design with four replications. It was measured the fresh and dry biomass of the shoot of lettuce, and the plant height, stem diameter, number of leaves, fresh biomass of roots and shoot, dry biomass of the shoot and, the relation between the fresh biomass of shoot and roots in tomato seedlings. The foliar fertilization with Acrescent Foliar® does not influence the lettuce productivity and it conferred undesirable characteristics in the tomato seedlings such as reduced roots fresh biomass and increased ratio between the fresh biomass of shoot and roots

RELAÇÕES ENTRE CARACTERES DE PIMENTÃO PROVENIENTES DE SEMENTES COM DIFERENTES NÍVEIS DE QUALIDADE FISIOLÓGICA

This study aimed to identify the relationship between morphological variables and production variables in bell pepper plants derived from seeds of different physiological levels. The experiments were car-ried out in a randomized block design with eight replications in a protected setting at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Treatments included three lots of hybrid Tiberius seeds and one lot of Rubi Giant seeds during Spring-Winter and Autumn-Winter season with different levels of physiological quality as shown by vigor and germination tests. The following characters (variables) were measured: plant height, first fork height, stem di-ameter, and stem diameter below the first fork after 50 days, 70 days and 90 days of transplanting, average weight of fruits, average production per harvest, total production, average fruit length, and average width of fruits. Next, for each level of vigor was estimated the correlation matrixes, multicollinearity diagnosis, and then path analysis, considering the total production as the main variable.Plants derived from high-, low- and medium vigor seeds whose first fork diameters were greater after 50 days and 70 days of transplanting are more produc-tive during Spring-Winter seeding. Coefficients of correlation and effect of low magnitude were identified in vigor levels (being high, low, medium, and extremely low) during Autumn-Winter season, indicating a weak relationship between cause and effect of explanatory variables measured on total fruit production of bell pepper