Antonio Evami Cavalcante Sousa

Produtividade do meloeiro sob lâmina de irrigação e adubação potássica

The main goal of this work was to evaluate the effect of the application of the four water depths and four levels of potassium fertilization applied thought drip irrigation on the yield and quality of Yellow melon (Cucumis melo L.), group Gold Mine AF 10.00. The study was carried at the Pici Campus of Ceara Federal University from Brazil. A randomized block design with two factors and four repetitions was used. The first factor represented the water depths (50; 75; 100 and 150% of the Class A pan evaporation) and the second factor represented the levels of potassium fertilization (150; 225; 300 and 450 kg ha-1). The results showed that water depths linearly affected crop productivity, while Potassium fertilization and the iteration between both factors were not significant. Maximum fruit yield (35 Mg ha-1) was obtained applying 795 mm of water (150% of the Class A pan evaporation). Fruit mass increased about 82% with the amount of water applied, while the yield increased more than 16 Mg ha-1 .

Efeito de diferentes lâminas de irrigação na cultura do mamão

The objective of this work was to study the effect of the different irrigation levels at the Carica papaya L. crop, Formosa group, variety Tainung No 1, under the edapho-climatic conditions at the Jaguaribe Apodi Irrigation District (DIJA), Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara. It was applied irrigation levels corresponding to 50; 75; 100; 125 and 150% of the Class A Pan evaporation (ECA). The experimental delineation used was randomized blocks design with three repetitions and five treatments. The analyzed attributes were: average weight of the fruit, productivity and levels of total soluble solids in the fruit. The results demonstrated that the use of bigger irrigation depths increases the productivity. However, it does not modify the average weight of the fruit and the levels of total soluble solids.

Trocas gasosas e conteúdo de carboidratos e compostos nitrogenados em pinhão‑manso irrigado com águas residuária e salina

The objective of this work was to evaluate the changes in gas exchange and in the contents of carbohydrates and nitrogen compounds in physic nut (Jatropha curcas) irrigated with wastewater and saline water. The experiment was carried out in a randomized block design, with four treatments and four replicates: irrigation with tap water at 0.6 dS m -1 (control); full irrigation with saline tap water at 2.4 dS m -1 (Salt); and irrigation with wastewater at full (W100) or at 50% field capacity (W50). The W50 treatment remarkably reduced gas exchange and leaf area in comparison to the control, followed by Salt and W100 treatments. Reduction in photosynthesis lowered leaf-sucrose content in the four treatments. Total soluble sugar contents increased in W50, Salt, and W100 treatments, while starch content remained almost unaltered. Proline and glycine betaine contents increased in these treatments, but the latter was quantitatively more important as osmotic and cellular protector. Full irrigation with wastewater induces similar effects to the ones caused by irrigation with saline water. Irrigation with limited amounts of wastewater caused an acute stress to plants, probably due to a combination of water deficit and solute accumulation in the soil.

Componentes de produção de pinhão manso irrigado com água de diferentes condutividades elétrica e doses de fósforo

The physic nut has attracted considerable interest in recent years because of the high potential to provide oil for biofuel production and this has caused the rapid expansion of cultivated area worldwide. This research aimed to evaluate the influence of irrigation with water of different electrical conductivity (ECw) and two doses of phosphorus on the production components of physic nut during the third year of production. A randomized block design in a factorial (5x2) was adopted with four repetitions, with five levels of salinity (ECw - 0.6 control; 1.2; 1.8; 2.4 and 3.0dS m-1) of the irrigation water and two doses of P2O5 (135 and 200g plant-1 year-1), in which the water of 0.6dS m-1 refers to municipal supply water and the dose of 135g plant-1 is the recommended dose for physic nut. Plants were cultivated in recipient of 200L and irrigated at intervals of three days. The number of days for inflorescence, number of clusters plant-1, grain yield and oil content of physic nut seeds were negatively affected by the increasing salinity of the irrigated water. The cultivation of physic nut irrigated with electrical conductivity of 1.3dS m-1 reduces the productivity by 10% and consequently the seed oil content. Only the number of days for inflorescence was affected by phosphorus doses. A positive and significant correlation between weight of 100 seeds and oil content of seeds was observed and in the treatment with the lowest ECw the values obtained were respectively 90.26g and 36.39%.