Excessive phosphorus (P) in runoff contributes to eutrophication of fresh water bodies. Studies have shown that manure and effluent applied from animal feeding operations to waste application fields (WAFs) have contributed to excess P in segments of the North Bosque River in east central Texas. There is a growing need for environmentally sound, economically viable, and easy to establish best management practices to control such pollution. Vegetative buffer strips offer a potential solution for reducing runoff P from WAFs by extracting it from soil and by reducing sediment P delivery (due to reduced runoff and soil erosion) to streams. In a field study, ten plots (5m x 5m) were assigned to five replicated treatments, namely control (bare, without having any plant cover), cool season grass, warm season forb, warm season grass, and warm season legume to assess their efficacy of runoff sediment control and P sequestration potential from soil. These plots were established on a coastal Bermuda grass WAF that received dairy lagoon effluent. A runoff collection system, a 1m x 1m sub-plot with a runoff conveyance and collection apparatus, was installed on the upstream and downstream margins of each plot. Natural rainfall runoff samples were collected and analyzed subsequently for total P, soluble P, and total suspended solids in the laboratory. Additionally, the total mass of runoff collected from each sub-plot was calculated. Results suggested that the warm season forb and warm season grass were the most effective vegetative covers for the reduction of runoff P, followed by coastal Bermuda and cool season grass, respectively. The lesser amount of runoff total P in these two treatments was due to lesser runoff mass and lesser sediments in the runoff due to initial interception of rain and less raindrop impact on soil because of denser vegetative cover in both treatments compared to all other treatments.

Balancing plant growth between vegetative and reproductive status is crucial for producing high quality greenhouse tomatoes while maintaining high productivity in long crop production seasons. In the tomato industry, certain plant morphological characteristics are used to classify plant growth status as vegetative, reproductive or balanced. Each growth status has been associated with distinct greenhouse environments which reduce or enhance transpiration.The effect of different transpiration on vegetative, reproductive or balanced plant growth status as defined by a set of plant morphological characteristics was investigated. To validate the practical significance of such classification, growth status was quantified as the relationship between variations in morphological characteristics and the fresh weight distributed between reproductive and vegetative organs.Two electrical conductivity (EC) levels of the nutrient solution, high and standard EC, were combined with two potential transpiration environments, low and high potential transpiration. All treatment combinations were contrasted with a reference greenhouse environment similar to the industry standard.Electrical conductivity had the greatest effect on morphological characteristics which were reduced in size with high EC. For each EC level, the response decreased for increasing potential transpiration. Stem diameter had the greatest sensitivity to the different treatment combinations. For the standard EC and for the range of potential transpirations achieved, stem diameter varied within a relatively narrow range, close to the industry standard 'threshold' used to classify a balanced tomato plant. A reproductive plant growth status, as evaluated by a smaller value than this threshold, was observed only with high EC. No vegetative plants were produced within any potential transpiration or EC treatment combination.High EC decreased the cumulative total fresh weight production by the same magnitude for all potential transpirations. Potential transpiration had a minimal effect on the total fresh weight production or on its components. As a result, the fresh weight ratio between reproductive and vegetative plant organs was similar for most potential transpiration environments, regardless of variations in stem diameter. Therefore, within the range of potential transpiration environments achieved, the distinction between vegetative and reproductive growth status as an indicator of fresh weight distribution and fruit yields could not be quantitatively validated.

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Orientador: Antonio Baldo Geraldo Martins / Banca: Carlos Ruggiero / Banca: Simone Rodrigues da Silva / Resumo: O rambutan é uma frutífera tropical pertencente à família Sapindaceae, com origem no Sudeste Asiático, especialmente Malásia. No Brasil, o cultivo está em expansão e distribuído em diferentes estados e com plantas de origem seminífera, gerando pomares desuniformes e início de produção tardio. Com a propagação vegetativa é possível antecipar a fase produtiva, e também corrigir o problema de plantas masculinas. O presente trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar a enxertia em fenda cheia ao longo do ano e, a influência da aplicação de AIB em três diferentes formas no enraizamento de estacas do rambutan. A enxertia foi conduzida de set/2008 à ago/2010 no ripado de fruticultura da FCAV/Unesp, no município de Jaboticabal/SP, local onde também realizou-se a estaquia em jan/2010. O delineamento foi inteiramente casualizado, com 10 plantas/parcela na enxertia e 10 estacas/parcela na estaquia e 4 repetições em ambos experimentos. Para a enxertia as avaliações foram: porcentagem de pegamento mensal e por época, número e altura das brotações emitidas por enxerto e número de folíolos dos enxertos, e para a estaquia foram: porcentagem de sobrevivência, calejamento, pegamento e número e comprimento médio de raízes. Com os resultados obtidos pode-se concluir que o agosto e novembro são os meses mais adequados para o pegamento da enxertia do rambutan. Agosto é o melhor mês do ano para o desenvolvimento das brotações e folíolos dos enxertos. A melhor época do ano para a realização da enxertia é a primavera. A forma de aplicação de AIB e suas respectivas doses não influenciam nenhuma das variáveis analisadas / Abstract: The rambutan is a tropical fruit belonging to the Sapindaceae family, which originated in Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia. In Brazil, the cultivation is expanding and distributed in different states and with plant material seminiferous generating non uniform orchards and production starting late. With vegetative propagation is possible to anticipate the productive phase, and also fix the problem of male plants. This study aimed to evaluate the cleft grafting during the year, and the influence of IBA application in three different ways on the rooting of the rambutan. The grafting was conducted in Sep/2008 ago/2010 ripped the fruit of FCAV / UNESP in Jaboticabal / SP, which is also where the cutting took place in Jan/2010. The design was completely randomized, with 10 plants per plot of grafting and 10 cuttings per plot in the cutting and 4 replications in both experiments. For grafting were evaluated: successful rate per month and season, number and height of emitted buds per stock and leaflet number of grafts, and the cuttings were: percentage of survival, callus, and fixation number and average length of roots . With these results we can conclude that the August and November are the months most suitable for the fixation of the grafted rambutan. August is the best month of the year for the development of shoots and leaves of the grafts. The best season for grafting is spring. The form of application of IBA and their doses do not influence any of the variables / Mestre

A crescente demanda do mercado mundial em aumentar a produção agrícola e minimizar danos ambientais confere crescente relevância à agricultura de precisão, para a qual a Geoinformação é uma importante ferramenta. Diferentes dados provenientes de imagem de sensores orbitais e terrestres têm sido utilizados para o monitoramento agrícola em escalas local, regional e global. Neste contexto, e focalizando esta percepção à viticultura, o objetivo deste estudo é avaliar o comportamento espectral de diferentes cultivares de videiras ao longo do ciclo fenológico, dando suporte para realização da discriminação espectral das variedades e o mapeamento da variação espacial do vigor vegetativo dentro da parcela. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa proposta o trabalho foi dividido em duas etapas. A primeira investigação consistiu em um estudo realizado em vinhedos da região de Borgonha na França, onde foram estudadas as variedades de uva Chardonnay e Pinot Noir. O trabalho teve como pressuposto verificar se as categorias de qualidade que definem os vinhedos e são transmitidas a partir do solo ao vinho são igualmente transmitidas às folhas das videiras, e se estas podem ser detectadas na informação espectral de imagens de satélites ASTER. Os resultados obtidos mostraram ser possível esta discriminação e instigaram novos estudos mais detalhados que foram conduzidos em vinhedos da Vinícola Geisse, localizada na Serra Gaúcha, realizados a partir de dados de radiometria de campo e imagens orbitais. Novamente foram investigadas as variedades viníferas Chardonnay e Pinot Noir, monitoradas ao longo de duas safras. As medições de campo foram realizadas com um radiômetro FieldSpec Pro. Também foram usados dados orbitais provenientes do sensor WorldView-2. Dados de campo e orbitais apresentaram relações consistentes, e mostraram ser possível discriminar as variedades através de suas características espectrais. A alta relação sinal/ruído dos dados de campo permitiu detectar diferenças consistentes e sistemáticas nos comprimentos de onda do verde e vermelho, atribuídas à presença de pigmentos como as antocianinas. O monitoramento da dinâmica espectral do ciclo fenológico revelou feições espectrais consistentes nos comprimentos de onda do infravermelho atribuídas ao período de senescência da videira. A espacialização dos dados de vigor vegetativo, obtidos através de índices de vegetação (NDVI) permitiu a setorização de áreas com diferentes potenciais enológicos. / The growing demand of world markets to increase agricultural production and to minimize environmental impacts puts the Geoinformation as an important tool of precision agriculture. Several sets of data of images from orbital and ground sensors have been used for agricultural monitoring at local, regional and global scales. In this context, focusing this perception to viticulture, the aim of this study was to evaluate the spectral comportment of different grapevine cultivars along of phenological cycle, giving support to realization of spectral discrimination of varieties and the mapping of the spatial variation of vegetative vigor within the plot. For the development of this project, our research was divided into two stages. The first research consisted in a study of vineyards of the Burgundy region in France, where the studied grape varieties were Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The work was to verify the assumption that the quality categories that define the vineyards and are transmitted from the soil to wine are also transmitted to the leaves of the vines, and these can be detected in the spectral information contained in ASTER satellite images. Results showed that this discrimination is indeed possible, and lead to the second part of the project, with new and more detailed studies, which were performed in the vineyards of Geisse Winery, located in the Serra Gaúcha region, Brazil, based on field radiometry and orbital images. The same grape varieties Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes were again investigated. Field measurements were performed with a radiometer FieldSpec Pro. The investigation was made on two vine plots, based on a selection of plants of the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, which were monitored over two growing seasons. Orbital data were from the WorldView-2 sensor. Field and orbital data showed consistent relations and showed that it is possible to distinguish the varieties by their spectral characteristics. The high relation signal/noise of field data allowed detecting consistent and systematic spectral features at red and green wavelengths, thought to be linked to the presence of pigments such as anthocyanins. The monitoring of spectral dynamics during the phenological cycle revealed consistent spectral features in infrared wavelengths assigned to the vine senescence period. The spatial distribution of vegetative vigor data obtained from the vegetation index (NDVI) allowed the sectorization of areas with different enological potentials.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-12-03Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:37:26Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 pitajunior_jl_me_jabo.pdf: 1003517 bytes, checksum: f1332541cfc8824b5e14c4b09a59b474 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / O rambutan é uma frutífera tropical pertencente à família Sapindaceae, com origem no Sudeste Asiático, especialmente Malásia. No Brasil, o cultivo está em expansão e distribuído em diferentes estados e com plantas de origem seminífera, gerando pomares desuniformes e início de produção tardio. Com a propagação vegetativa é possível antecipar a fase produtiva, e também corrigir o problema de plantas masculinas. O presente trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar a enxertia em fenda cheia ao longo do ano e, a influência da aplicação de AIB em três diferentes formas no enraizamento de estacas do rambutan. A enxertia foi conduzida de set/2008 à ago/2010 no ripado de fruticultura da FCAV/Unesp, no município de Jaboticabal/SP, local onde também realizou-se a estaquia em jan/2010. O delineamento foi inteiramente casualizado, com 10 plantas/parcela na enxertia e 10 estacas/parcela na estaquia e 4 repetições em ambos experimentos. Para a enxertia as avaliações foram: porcentagem de pegamento mensal e por época, número e altura das brotações emitidas por enxerto e número de folíolos dos enxertos, e para a estaquia foram: porcentagem de sobrevivência, calejamento, pegamento e número e comprimento médio de raízes. Com os resultados obtidos pode-se concluir que o agosto e novembro são os meses mais adequados para o pegamento da enxertia do rambutan. Agosto é o melhor mês do ano para o desenvolvimento das brotações e folíolos dos enxertos. A melhor época do ano para a realização da enxertia é a primavera. A forma de aplicação de AIB e suas respectivas doses não influenciam nenhuma das variáveis analisadas / The rambutan is a tropical fruit belonging to the Sapindaceae family, which originated in Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia. In Brazil, the cultivation is expanding and distributed in different states and with plant material seminiferous generating non uniform orchards and production starting late. With vegetative propagation is possible to anticipate the productive phase, and also fix the problem of male plants. This study aimed to evaluate the cleft grafting during the year, and the influence of IBA application in three different ways on the rooting of the rambutan. The grafting was conducted in Sep/2008 ago/2010 ripped the fruit of FCAV / UNESP in Jaboticabal / SP, which is also where the cutting took place in Jan/2010. The design was completely randomized, with 10 plants per plot of grafting and 10 cuttings per plot in the cutting and 4 replications in both experiments. For grafting were evaluated: successful rate per month and season, number and height of emitted buds per stock and leaflet number of grafts, and the cuttings were: percentage of survival, callus, and fixation number and average length of roots . With these results we can conclude that the August and November are the months most suitable for the fixation of the grafted rambutan. August is the best month of the year for the development of shoots and leaves of the grafts. The best season for grafting is spring. The form of application of IBA and their doses do not influence any of the variables

A crescente demanda do mercado mundial em aumentar a produção agrícola e minimizar danos ambientais confere crescente relevância à agricultura de precisão, para a qual a Geoinformação é uma importante ferramenta. Diferentes dados provenientes de imagem de sensores orbitais e terrestres têm sido utilizados para o monitoramento agrícola em escalas local, regional e global. Neste contexto, e focalizando esta percepção à viticultura, o objetivo deste estudo é avaliar o comportamento espectral de diferentes cultivares de videiras ao longo do ciclo fenológico, dando suporte para realização da discriminação espectral das variedades e o mapeamento da variação espacial do vigor vegetativo dentro da parcela. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa proposta o trabalho foi dividido em duas etapas. A primeira investigação consistiu em um estudo realizado em vinhedos da região de Borgonha na França, onde foram estudadas as variedades de uva Chardonnay e Pinot Noir. O trabalho teve como pressuposto verificar se as categorias de qualidade que definem os vinhedos e são transmitidas a partir do solo ao vinho são igualmente transmitidas às folhas das videiras, e se estas podem ser detectadas na informação espectral de imagens de satélites ASTER. Os resultados obtidos mostraram ser possível esta discriminação e instigaram novos estudos mais detalhados que foram conduzidos em vinhedos da Vinícola Geisse, localizada na Serra Gaúcha, realizados a partir de dados de radiometria de campo e imagens orbitais. Novamente foram investigadas as variedades viníferas Chardonnay e Pinot Noir, monitoradas ao longo de duas safras. As medições de campo foram realizadas com um radiômetro FieldSpec Pro. Também foram usados dados orbitais provenientes do sensor WorldView-2. Dados de campo e orbitais apresentaram relações consistentes, e mostraram ser possível discriminar as variedades através de suas características espectrais. A alta relação sinal/ruído dos dados de campo permitiu detectar diferenças consistentes e sistemáticas nos comprimentos de onda do verde e vermelho, atribuídas à presença de pigmentos como as antocianinas. O monitoramento da dinâmica espectral do ciclo fenológico revelou feições espectrais consistentes nos comprimentos de onda do infravermelho atribuídas ao período de senescência da videira. A espacialização dos dados de vigor vegetativo, obtidos através de índices de vegetação (NDVI) permitiu a setorização de áreas com diferentes potenciais enológicos. / The growing demand of world markets to increase agricultural production and to minimize environmental impacts puts the Geoinformation as an important tool of precision agriculture. Several sets of data of images from orbital and ground sensors have been used for agricultural monitoring at local, regional and global scales. In this context, focusing this perception to viticulture, the aim of this study was to evaluate the spectral comportment of different grapevine cultivars along of phenological cycle, giving support to realization of spectral discrimination of varieties and the mapping of the spatial variation of vegetative vigor within the plot. For the development of this project, our research was divided into two stages. The first research consisted in a study of vineyards of the Burgundy region in France, where the studied grape varieties were Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The work was to verify the assumption that the quality categories that define the vineyards and are transmitted from the soil to wine are also transmitted to the leaves of the vines, and these can be detected in the spectral information contained in ASTER satellite images. Results showed that this discrimination is indeed possible, and lead to the second part of the project, with new and more detailed studies, which were performed in the vineyards of Geisse Winery, located in the Serra Gaúcha region, Brazil, based on field radiometry and orbital images. The same grape varieties Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes were again investigated. Field measurements were performed with a radiometer FieldSpec Pro. The investigation was made on two vine plots, based on a selection of plants of the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, which were monitored over two growing seasons. Orbital data were from the WorldView-2 sensor. Field and orbital data showed consistent relations and showed that it is possible to distinguish the varieties by their spectral characteristics. The high relation signal/noise of field data allowed detecting consistent and systematic spectral features at red and green wavelengths, thought to be linked to the presence of pigments such as anthocyanins. The monitoring of spectral dynamics during the phenological cycle revealed consistent spectral features in infrared wavelengths assigned to the vine senescence period. The spatial distribution of vegetative vigor data obtained from the vegetation index (NDVI) allowed the sectorization of areas with different enological potentials.

Orientador: Marcelo Carnier Dornelas / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Biologia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T18:50:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cutri_Lucas_M.pdf: 1586936 bytes, checksum: 89c34c442b82fc8e799842fa98af8efe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O gene LEAFY (LFY) específico de plantas, além de atuar na transição do meristema vegetativo para o reprodutivo, parece regular também a transição do desenvolvimento de produtos do meristema apical tão diversos quanto: folhasgavinhas; flores-gavinhas e inflorescências-flores solitárias, além de diminuir drasticamente o tempo necessário para que a planta passe da fase vegetativa para a fase reprodutiva. O gênero Passiflora é um candidato em potencial para o estudo da evolução da função biológica do gene LFY, por conter todas as estruturas morfológicas em que o referido gene atua. Neste estudo, foram analisadas duas espécies divergentes de Passiflora: Passiflora edulis var flavicarpa e Passiflora suberosa. O desenvolvimento reprodutivo de ambas foi caracterizado com o uso de microscopia óptica e de microscopia eletrônica de varredura. Análises moleculares da função do gene LFY também foram executadas nestas duas espécies. Isolou-se, via PCR, fragmentos potencialmente correspondentes a homólogos do referido gene em P. edulis e em P. suberosa. Estas seqüências gênicas, denominadas respectivamente PeLFY e PsLFY foram utilizadas em análises filogenéticas. O padrão de expressão de ambos os genes foi investigado em experimentos de RTPCR e hibridização in situ em diferentes tecidos durante o desenvolvimento das espécies de Passiflora estudadas Adicionalmente, foram obtidas plantas transgênicas de P. suberosa, contendo uma construção de superexpressão do gene LFY de Arabidopsis / Abstract: The LEAFY (LFY) gene is plant-specific, and besides playing a role in the transition of the vegetative to the reproductive meristems, it seems to regulate the development of different products of the shoot apical meristem (SAM) as leaves-tendrils, flowerstendrils, solitary flowers-inflorescences. It is also responsible for decreasing substantially the time needed for the transition from the vegetative to the reproductive phase. The genus Passiflora is a good model for the study of the evolution of the biologic function of the LFY gene, because it has all morphological structures in which this gene acts. In this study, two distinct species: Passiflora edulis var. flavicarpa and Passiflora suberosa had their reproductive development analyzed by optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Molecular analyzes of LFY functions were also performed in both species. Fragments corresponding to homologs of the LFY gene were cloned from P. edulis and P. suberosa by PCR. These fragments were named PeLFY and PsLFY, respectively and were used in filogenetic analyzes. The expression patterns of these genes were investigated by RT-PCR and in situ hybridization in different tissues of the studied Passiflora species. Additionally, transgenic lines of P. suberosa were obtained that contained a construction that promoted the overexpression of the Arabidopsis LFY gene / Mestrado / Mestre em Biologia Vegetal

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Dissertation (MSc (Ornamental Horticulture))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Plant Production and Soil Science / unrestricted

Many pesticides are listed as possible or probable human carcinogens, leading to a public concern over their environmental impact. Vegetative filter strips (VFS) have been developed to intercept runoff water and prevent pesticides from contaminating surface and ground water. The first half of this project identified five plants (big blue stem, blue flag iris, eastern gama grass, prairie cord grass and wool grass) that best removed pesticides from contaminated soil. The current study evaluated four treatment groups: the five selected plant species arranged (1) randomly, (2) in a succession from short (upslope) to tall (downslope), (3) turfgrass cut to three heights from short (upslope) to tall (downslope) and (4) unvegetated (UVFS), in an effort to optimize vegetative filter strips to reduce the movement of pesticides contained in runoff from turfgrass environments. Simulated rainfall was applied to 12 VFS (0.91 m x 4.6 m x 1.83 m), each with a 5% slope. The VFS were used to evaluate the effect of three vegetated treatments on the effectiveness of VFS for mitigation of pesticide-contaminated runoff from treated turf. For the runon simulation, five pesticides (chlorothalonil, chlorpyrifos, imidacloprid, pendimethalin, and propiconazole) were added at 5% their maximum application rate for turfgrass to a nurse tank containing the amount of runoff expected to occur from an uphill turf plot (5.5 m2) during either a 1- (6.1 cm) or 5-yr (9.65 cm) rain event. Runoff samples were collected at the downhill base (bottom) of each VFS and analyzed for pesticides to determine the effectiveness of VFS at mitigating runoff water and the pesticides contained. Soil core and soil pore water samples were taken periodically post-application. All samples were analyzed for applied pesticides and quantified by GC/MS and LC/MS/MS. All vegetated treatments were more effective in decreasing the runoff volume and the associated pesticide concentration when compared with UVFS, with turfgrass being the most effective of the three treatments. This research validates the use of VFS in slowing the flow of runon water significantly enough for it to infiltrate into the soil, instead of leaving the VFS as runoff. VFS are already suggested as a best management practice to prevent pesticides from leaving many agricultural sites treated with pesticides, but this research suggests their widespread use on golf courses, parks, athletic fields and home lawns could greatly reduce the amount of pesticides in runoff waters from turf environments and help keep our waterways clean.