13 articles in this issue
Mario Blasco Lamenca
Mensaje del Dr. Mario Blasco Lamenca, fundador de la Revista de Ciencias Agrícolas de la Universidad de Nariño, 50 años de divulgación y difusión de investigación científica y tecnológica de las Ciencias Agrarias.
William Ballesteros Possú, James R. Brandle, Héctor Ramiro Ordóñez
In the United States of America, agriculture is performed on large farms of monocultures, affecting ecosystems and making a great contribution to climate change. The carbon storage potential for twelve field windbreak designs containing one-, two- and thr... see more
Hernando Criollo E., Johanna Muñoz B., Jorge Checa B., Wilmer Noguera R.
The importance of coffee cultivation in Nariño is reflected in the fact that 64% of its municipalities grow coffee. The ruggedness of its Andean topography provides great diversity in terms of climatic conditions, which, in one way or another, affect the ... see more
Jennyfer Moncayo, Roberth Delgado, Carlos Marcillo, Claudia Salazar, Carlos Betancourth
Potato crop is the fourth main food product in the world, but is affected by Phytophthora infestans, the late blight disease causal agent. This research was carried out in a town of Pasto high plateau, South of Colombia. In order to evaluate the reaction ... see more
Maria Luiza Assis Rodrigues, Sirlene Souza Rodrigues Sartori, Priscila Izabel Santos Totaro, Sérgio Luis Pinto da Matta
The ingestion of considerable amounts of water or food contaminated with nickel can be very toxic. The present work was conducted aiming to evaluate the effects of nickel exposures on ascending colon of adult Wistar male rats at hystometric level. We used... see more
Izabella M. C. Pinheiro, João Henrique S. Luz, Luis Flávio N. Souza, Ana Cláudia Oliveira, Eugênio E. Oliveira, Raimundo Wagner Aguiar, Gil R. Santos, Talita P. Ferreira, Marcela Cristina Silveira-Tschoeke, Paulo Henrique Tschoeke
The use of plant essential oils has been adopted as less hazardous to the environment and human health than synthetic insecticides used for the control of insects that transmit diseases. Despite of exerting insecticidal activities against several insect d... see more
Luis Viteri Jumbo, Marco Pimentel, Eugênio E. Oliveira, Pedro Toledo, Lêda Rita D'Antonino Faroni
The weevil Acanthoscelides obtectus (Say) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) is a cosmopolitan pest that causes high losses in stored beans in small storage units and especially on-farm storages. Here, it was tested the efficacy of the inert dust diat... see more
Graziela Sant’ana, Sabrina Araújo, Jardel L. Pereira, Eugenio E. Oliveira
The application of agrochemicals plays a key role in the world's food and agricultural products supply. Brazil, as one of the most relevant agricultural global players is highly dependent on the application of such products, which surely attracted not onl... see more
William Chaves, Érica C. Almeida, Cristiana Carneiro, Larisa Magnone, Nilton Martins, Martin Bessonart, Jener Zuanon, Ana Salaro
The lambari, Astyanax altiparanae, exhibits a great potential for aquaculture due to its omnivory, rapid growth and ease captive production. Despite of fish lipid metabolism being directly related to the dietary lipid consumed, which may lead to changes i... see more
Gabryele Silva Ramos, Paula Daiana De Paulo, Pedro F. S. Toledo, Khalid Haddi, Jose Cola Zanuncio, Eugenio E. Oliveira
Pesticide effects on natural enemies in an agroecosystem are of paramount importance for integrated pest management programs. Natural enemies can be subject to direct and indirect exposure to insecticides and synergistic molecules (e.g., sodium chloride -... see more
Maysa Ueda-De-Carvalho, Lucas Buruaem-Moreira, Luciane Maranho-Alves, Denis Moledo-de-Souza-Abessa
Fire suppressors are widely used in firefighting and their chemical composition may present a mixture of perfluorochlorinated surfactants (PFCs), including the perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) which has been internationally banned due to its classificatio... see more
Amanda C. Túler, Wilson R. Valbon, Hígor S. Rodrigues, Luína R. Noia, Lucas M. L. Santos, Isac Fogaça, Vando M. Rondelli, Abraão C. Verdin Filho
In robusta coffee, Coffea canephora, the black twig borer Xylosandrus compactus (Eichhoff) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) causes considerable damage. Although this has been reported in many crops for years in Brazil, recently, the injury caused by X. compact... see more
Nataly Delgado-Bastidas, Liz K Lagos-Santander, Tulio César Lagos-Burbano
Physalis peruviana L., also called cape gooseberry, is widely known for its nutraceutical and economic importance. However, little is known about the genetic diversity of this species at the molecular level, mainly due to its status as an orphan species. ... see more