11 articles in this issue
Renan Antunes Donadelli, Fredy Armando Aguilar Aguilar, Daniel Yokoyama Sonoda, José Eurico Possebon Cyrino
The dourado, Salminus brasiliensis, a large, carnivorous, Neotropical, Characin, is highly regarded for fish farming and sport fishing alike. However, studies on the farming and husbandry of dourado are still scarce. This study evaluated the performance o... see more
Carla Regina Guimarães Brighenti, Marcelo Ângelo Cirillo, André Luís Alves Costa, Sttela Dellyzete Veiga Franco da Rosa, Renato Mendes Guimarães
Tetrazolium tests use conventional sampling techniques in which a sample has a fixed size. These tests may be improved by sequential sampling, which does not work with fixedsize samples. When data obtained from an experiment are analyzed sequentially the ... see more
Hugo Teixeira Silva, Fabyano Fonseca e Silva, Aloízio Soares Ferreira, Renata Veroneze, Paulo Sávio Lopes
We evaluated the inclusion of information on genetic relationship into the analysis of crude protein requirement in diets for pigs of Brazilian Piau breed, using Bayesian inference. The animals were assigned to treatments in a completely randomized design... see more
Altair Marcos Schneider, Lessando Moreira Gontijo, Lilian Lucia Costa
While the cultivation of conventional Bt corn has been widely adopted in Brazil, the production of Bt sweet corn is still incipient. The main lepidopteran pests found attacking conventional and sweet corn in Brazil are Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) a... see more
Marcelo Callegari Scipioni, Mário Dobner Júnior, Solon Jonas Longhi, Alexander Christian Vibrans, Paulo Renato Schneider
Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze is a native tree species of major importance in southern Brazil. It is a regional symbol due to its iconic shape and stature in the landscape; its wood was once economically important and its seeds are an important ... see more
Bárbhara Joana dos Reis Fatobene, Wallace Gonçalves, Claudio Marcelo Gonçalves Oliveira, Oliveiro Guerreiro Filho
Plants of Coffea arabica Icatu IAC 925 germplasm show resistance to Meloidogyne paranaensis under field conditions, but with variable rates of segregation. One mother plant, IAC 3, of Icatu IAC 925 was evaluated under controlled conditions through the rea... see more
Elizeu Merizio Munhoz, Thays Benites Camargo Pereira, Ivan Paulo Bedendo
Momordica charantia (bitter melon) presents two distinct types or varieties, known as wild type and commercial type. Plants of the wild type are hosts of a phytoplasma of the group 16SrIII-J, which is associated with a disease known as witches’ broom. How... see more
Sérgio Gustavo Quassi de Castro, João Rossi Neto, Oriel Tiago Kölln, Bernardo Melo Montes Nogueira Borges, Henrique Coutinho Junqueira Franco
Low efficiency of nitrogen from fertilizers is a major concern worldwide, threatening the sustainability of sugarcane production. The N use efficiency (NUE) by sugarcane can be improved by adopting better fertilizing management practices, reducing environ... see more
Diego Fernandes Terra Machado, Sérgio Henrique Godinho Silva, Nilton Curi, Michele Duarte de Menezes
Different uses of soil legacy data such as training dataset as well as the selection of soil environmental covariables could drive the accuracy of machine learning techniques. Thus, this study evaluated the ability of the Random Forest algorithm to predic... see more
Everton Pires Soliman, Bárbara Monteiro de Castro e Castro, Carlos Frederico Wilcken, Ana Carolina Firmino, Mario Henrique Ferreira Amaral Dal Pogetto, Leonardo Rodrigues Barbosa, José Cola Zanuncio
Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpintero and Dellape (Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae) is a sap-sucking insect that has become a major pest of eucalypts. The entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. and Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.) Sorok... see more
Vitor Massami Imaizumi, Maria Márcia Pereira Sartori, Carlos Ducatti, Waldemar Gastoni Venturini Filho
Industrialized coconut water may have been adulterated by adding sugar above the limit permitted by law. According to Brazilian law, industrialized coconut water can receive the maximum addition of 1 g of sugar per 100 mL of the drink. This work aimed to ... see more