Associação de características de planta em cultivares de aveia com habilidade competitiva

Características morfológicas de plantas cultivadas que confiram maior habilidade competitiva podem integrar medidas de manejo cultural de plantas daninhas e, com isso, reduzir o uso de herbicidas. O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar se o crescimento inicial por plantas de cultivares de aveia se associa ao seu potencial competitivo com plantas infestantes. Para isso, foi conduzido um experimento a campo na Universidade Federal de Pelotas, em Capão do Leão-RS, durante a estação de crescimento de 2006. Compararam-se os cultivares de aveia: ALBASUL, CFT 1, UPFA 22 e URS 22, os quais foram testados sob três condições de competição (ausência de plantas concorrentes, presença de trigo ou de linho, como competidores). O delineamento experimental utilizado foi completamente casualizado, com quatro repetições. Avaliaram-se diversas características morfológicas em plantas de aveia no início do ciclo de desenvolvimento e outras características agronômicas no final do ciclo da aveia e de seus competidores. Os cultivares de aveia responderam diferentemente à presença de plantas competidoras. O cultivar UPFA 22, em geral, apresentou maiores valores para características morfológicas de planta associadas com habilidade competitiva, enquanto o cultivar URS 22, ao contrário, mostrou deficiências em características vantajosas à competição. Os cultivares UPFA 22 e CFT 1 demonstraram elevada capacidade de competir com as espécies concorrentes. Características morfológicas em plantas de cultivares de aveia no início do ciclo de desenvolvimento, de modo geral, não mostraram habilidade competitiva até o final do ciclo.Morphological crop plant traits which confer greater competitive ability may integrate cultural weed management measures, thus reducing the use of herbicides. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a fast initial growth of oat cultivars relate to their competitive potential with concurrent plants. A field experiment was conducted at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas, in Capão do Leão-RS, during the 2006 growing season. The oat cultivars ALBASUL, CFT 1, UPFA 22, and URS 22, which were tested under three competition conditions (absence of concurrent plants, presence of flax or of wheat as competitors) were used. The experiment was arranged in a completely randomized design, with four replicates. Many morphological characteristics in oat plants were evaluated at the initial phase of their development, as well as other agronomic traits at the end of the oat cycle and of the cycle of its competitors. Oat cultivars reacted differently to the presence of concurrent plants. The UPFA 22 cultivar generally presented greater values for the morphological plant traits associated with competitive ability; whereas URS 22 showed deficiencies in traits advantageous to competition. The cultivars UPFA 22 and CFT 1 demonstrated a high potential to compete with concurrent plants. The morphological traits of oat cultivars evaluated at the beginning of their development, in general, did not sustain the competitive ability until the end of their cycles

The Position of High Frequency Waves with Respect to the Granulation Pattern

High frequency velocity oscillations were observed in the spectral lines Fe I 543.45nm and 543.29nm, using 2D spectroscopy with a Fabry- Perot and speckle reconstruction, at the VTT in Tenerife. We investigate the radial component of waves with frequencies in the range 8 - 22mHz in the internetwork, network and a pore. We find that the occurrence of waves do not show any preference on location and are equally distributed over down-flows and up-flows, regardless of the activity of the observed area in the line of Fe I 543.45nm. The waves observed in the lower formed line of Fe I 543.29nm seem to appear preferentially over down-flows.Comment: Article has 12 pages and 7 images. It is accepted in Solar Physics Journa

SU(3) Predictions for Weak Decays of Doubly Heavy Baryons -- including SU(3) breaking terms

We find expressions for the weak decay amplitudes of baryons containing two b quarks (or one b and one c quark -- many relationship are the same) in terms of unknown reduced matrix elements. This project was originally motivated by the request of the FNAL Run II b Physics Workshop organizers for a guide to experimentalists in their search for as yet unobserved hadrons. We include an analysis of linear SU(3) breaking terms in addition to relationships generated by unbroken SU(3) symmetry, and relate these to expressions in terms of the complete set of possible reduced matrix elements.Comment: 49 page

Anisotropy studies around the galactic centre at EeV energies with the Auger Observatory

Data from the Pierre Auger Observatory are analyzed to search for anisotropies near the direction of the Galactic Centre at EeV energies. The exposure of the surface array in this part of the sky is already significantly larger than that of the fore-runner experiments. Our results do not support previous findings of localized excesses in the AGASA and SUGAR data. We set an upper bound on a point-like flux of cosmic rays arriving from the Galactic Centre which excludes several scenarios predicting sources of EeV neutrons from Sagittarius $A$. Also the events detected simultaneously by the surface and fluorescence detectors (the `hybrid' data set), which have better pointing accuracy but are less numerous than those of the surface array alone, do not show any significant localized excess from this direction.Comment: Matches published versio

Atmospheric effects on extensive air showers observed with the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Atmospheric parameters, such as pressure (P), temperature (T) and density, affect the development of extensive air showers initiated by energetic cosmic rays. We have studied the impact of atmospheric variations on extensive air showers by means of the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The rate of events shows a ~10% seasonal modulation and ~2% diurnal one. We find that the observed behaviour is explained by a model including the effects associated with the variations of pressure and density. The former affects the longitudinal development of air showers while the latter influences the Moliere radius and hence the lateral distribution of the shower particles. The model is validated with full simulations of extensive air showers using atmospheric profiles measured at the site of the Pierre Auger Observatory.Comment: 24 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physic