10 articles in this issue
Alisson Jadavi Pereira da Silva, Eugênio Ferreira Coelho, Maurício Antônio Coelho Filho, José Leonaldo de Souza
The knowledge on spatial and temporal variations of soil water storage in the root zone of crops is essential to guide the studies to determine soil water balance, verify the effective zone of water extraction in the soil and indicate the correct region f... see more
Daniel Bini, Cristiane Alcantara dos Santos, Mylenne Calcciolari Pinheiro da Silva, Joice Andrade Bonfim, Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira Cardoso
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are very important to plant nutrition, mostly in terms of acquisition of P and micronutrients. While Acacia mangium is closely associated with AMF throughout the whole cycle, Eucalyptus grandis presents this symbiosis pr... see more
Lucimara Wolfarth Schirmbeck, Denise Cybis Fontana, Juliano Schirmbeck
Soybean crops occupy most areas in Rio Grande do Sul State and are highly dependent on rainfall since most of them are non-irrigated. Rainfall during the harvest period is often insufficient to meet the water demand, making water indicators an important t... see more
Juliana da Silva, Tássia Veluma Barbosa Carrara, Murillo Ceola Stefano Pereira, Cassiele Aparecida de Oliveira, Ivan Carlos Batista Júnior, Daniel Hideki Mariano Watanabe, André Luiz Nagatani Rigueiro, Mário De Beni Arrigoni, Danilo Domingues Millen
Owing to the lack of information in the literature about the ideal feeding frequency adopted by feedlot systems, this study was designed to evaluate the effect of different feeding frequencies on performance, carcass traits, feeding behavior and rumen mor... see more
José Teodoro de Paiva, Gerson Barreto Mourão, José Bento Sterman Ferraz, Elisângela Chicaroni Mattos, Tércio Michelan Filho, Bárbara Machado Campos, Joanir Pereira Eler, Leila de Genova Gaya
The intense selection process for economic traits conducted by the poultry breeding programs has been caused several changes in broiler meat quality. A database belonging to a selection program of a broiler male line was used to estimate heritability and ... see more
Rafael Fagnani, Ana Amélia Nunes Puppio, Emely Osti Zanon
Enhancing industrial sustainability by converting whey into alternative high value-added products is a scientific trend in food science and technology. However, without other ingredients, rennet, or sour, whey has an unappetizing flavor. This sensory chal... see more
Michele Duarte de Menezes, Sérgio Henrique Godinho Silva, Carlos Rogério de Mello, Phillip Ray Owens, Nilton Curi
The estimation of soil physical and chemical properties at non-sampled areas is valuable information for land management, sustainability and water yield. This work aimed to model and map soil physical-chemical properties by means of knowledge-based digita... see more
Patricia Pértile, Dörthe Holthusen, Paulo Ivonir Gubiani, José Miguel Reichert
The structural strength of soils has been extensively described by physical and mechanical properties evaluated on the mesoscale for different soils and management conditions. However, changes in the organization of the soil matrix at the microstructural ... see more
Paulo Hercílio Viegas Rodrigues, Flávia Arruda, Victor Augusto Forti
In vitro techniques, with the purpose of conserving the genetic resources of plants, are fundamental to the feasibility of establishing germplasm banks and enabling the commercial production of micropropagated plants. The aim of this study was to evaluate... see more
Danielle Otte Carrara Castan, Francisco Guilhien Gomes-Junior, Julio Marcos-Filho
The refinement of vigor tests and the possibility of utilizing computer resources for the effective evaluation of the seed physiological potential have attracted considerable interest from research and seed technologists. The aim of this study was to eval... see more