Produção e qualidade de sementes de abobrinha 'Piramoita' em resposta à quantidade de pólen Seed yield and quality in response to pollen load of squash cv. Piramoita

Realizou-se, em São Manuel (SP), um experimento com o objetivo de avaliar a influência da quantidade de pólen na produção e qualidade de sementes da abobrinha cv. Piramoita. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi em blocos casualizados, com quatro tratamentos (meia, uma ou duas flores masculinas na polinização manual de uma flor feminina e a testemunha, com polin ização natural), seis repetições com dez plantas/parcela. Não se observou diferença significativa entre os tratamentos para todas as características relacionadas com produção de frutos ou sementes. Quanto à qualidade, as sementes do tratamento com polinização natural apresentaram maior germinação e vigor que os tratamentos com polinização manual, as quais não diferiram entre si.<br>A field trial was carried out in São Manuel, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to evaluate the influence of pollen load on fruit and seed production and seed quality of squash, cv. Piramoita. The experimental design was a randomized block, with six replicates of 10 plants/plot and four treatments: half, one or two male flowers, in manual pollination of one female flower and a control, with natural pollination. The results revealed differences not significant among the treatments for the characteristics related to fruit and seed production. Higher quality (germination and vigor) was obtained with natural pollination, while different pollen load did not affect seed quality

Meta-Interpretation: Fifteen Years of Research with the Management Report

ABSTRACT This paper deals with Brazilian empirical research published in journals between 2000 and mid-2015 that used, as a source of data, the Management Reports (MRs) released by publicly-traded companies together with their financial statements. MRs differ from each other, both in form as well as in substance, and due to this as well as to their other characteristics, they prove attractive for academic studies interested in official company discourse, more so because they involve documents that are public and retrievable over time, covering a substantial range of typically larger companies from different economic sectors. Driven by these characteristics, the goal of this study was to understand the way the academic world understands and uses the MR. The paper favored an interpretivist viewpoint, but used the triangulation allowed by the use of qualitative (content analysis) and quantitative (statistical, sociometric, and bibliometric analyses) methods. It was concluded that, for the core group of experts who dealt with the document, the MR is biased, incomplete, questionable, unclear, laborious, uncertain, but also useful - in the absence of another -, comprehensive, available, and retrievable over time. And it lends itself to the interest of company directors by increasing their value and at the same time legitimizing their companies, incorporating into discourse the use of contemporary management practices, consistent with the expectations of stakeholders. Finally, it suggests the possibility, unexplored in the articles analyzed, of employing the MR to study the dynamics of the institutionalization of administrative practices among companies in the country