RESUMO -O Brasil é o maior produtor e consumidor de palmito do mundo. Sua importância econômica traz a necessidade de estudos para subsidiar a seleção de indivíduos superiores para programas de melhoramento genético da espécie. Assim, o objetivo do trabalho foi determinar o coeficiente de repetibilidade das características de produção de pupunheira para palmito, de forma a estimar o número mínimo de avaliações capazes de proporcionar níveis de certeza da predição do valor real das progênies. Foram avaliados quatro ciclos de cultivo de 85 progênies de meios-irmãos de pupunheira da raça macrocarpa Putumayo. O experimento foi delineado em blocos ao acaso e avaliados: massa do tolete de base do palmito, massa do palmito de primeira e de segunda qualidade, número de toletes por perfilho, diâmetro do palmito e perfilhos por parcela. Foram realizadas as análises de variância, de componentes principais e estrutural para a determinação do coeficiente de repetibilidade e número de medições. Houve regularidade na predição da superioridade dos indivíduos ao longo das medições para todas as características avaliadas. São necessários sete ciclos de medições para predizer o valor real de todas as características analisadas das progênies, com acurácia de 85%, pelo método dos componentes principais, com base na matriz de variâncias e covariâncias fenotípicas. Termos para indexação: Bactris gasipaes, produtividade, progênies, número de medições. REPEATABILITY ESTIMATES OF YIELD TRAITS IN PEACH PALM TO PALM HEART OF PUTUMAYO LANDRACEABSTRACT -Brazil is the largest producer and consumer of palm heart in the world. Its economic importance brings the need for studies to support the selection of superior individuals for breeding programs of species. Thus, the objective of this study was determinate the repeatability coefficient of the production characteristics of peach palm to palm heart in order to estimate the minimum number of evaluations capable of providing levels of certainty to the prediction of the progenies actual value. It was evaluated four cycles of cultivation of 85 half-sib progenies of peach palm race macrocarpa Putumayo. The experiment was conducted in randomized blocks and evaluated: base mass of the palm heart, mass of first and second quality of the palm heart, number of stalks per tiller, and diameter of the palm heart tillers per plot. Analysis of variance, principal components and structural determination of the repeatability coefficient and number of measurements were performed. There is regularity in predicting the superiority of individuals over the measurements for all traits. It takes seven cycles of measurements to predict the actual value of all traits of the progenies with 85% accuracy by the method of principal components based on the matrix of phenotypic variance and covariance.

The coffee leaf-miner (CLM) (Leucoptera coffeella Guérin-Mèneville; Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae), the main pest of coffee plants, occurs widely throughout the Neotropics where it has a significant, negative economic and quantitative impact on coffee production. This study was conducted in a rubber tree/ coffee plant interface that was influenced by the trees to a varying degrees depending on the location of the coffee plants, i.e. from beneath the rubber trees, extending through a range of distances from the edge of the tree plantation to end in a coffee monocrop field. The most severe damage inflicted on coffee plants by the CLM (number of mined leaves) from April, which marks the start of the water deficit period, until September 2003 was in the zone close to the rubber trees, whereas the damage inflicted on plants in the monocropped field was comparable to that on coffee plants grown directly beneath the rubber trees, which received about 25-40 % of the available irradiance (I r-available irradiation at a certain position divided by the irradiation received in full sunlight, i.e. in the monocrop). From May until July damage caused by the CLM nearly doubled in each month. In midwinter (July), the damage decreased perceptibly from the tree edge toward the open field. From September onward, with the rising air temperatures CLM damage in the coffee monocrop started to increase. Based on these results, we conclude that coffee plants grown in the full sun incurred the most damage only at the end of winter, with warming air

Amazonian Robustas are ten new clones of high yield potential with characteristics typical of the botanical varieties conilon and robusta. With individual registration, the new cultivars were developed to be grown together with other clones, with flexibility of composition of the crops according to the preference of the producer.

Solar radiation is an important factor for plant growth, being its availability to understory crops strongly modified by trees in an Agroforestry System (AFS). Coffee trees (Coffea arabica - cv. Obatã IAC 1669-20) were planted at a 3.4 x 0.9 m spacing inside and aside rows of monocrops of 12 year-old rubber trees (Hevea spp.), in Piracicaba-SP, Brazil (22º42'30" S, 47º38'00" W - altitude: 546m). One-year-old coffee plants exposed to 25; 30; 35; 40; 45; 80; 90; 95 and 100% of the total solar radiation were evaluated according to its biophysical parameters of solar radiation interception and capture. The Goudriaan (1977) adapted by Bernardes et al. (1998) model for radiation attenuation fit well to the measured data. Coffee plants tolerate a decrease in solar radiation availability to 50% without undergoing a reduction on growth and LAI, which was approximately 2m².m-2 under this condition. Further reductions on the availability of solar radiation caused a reduction in LAI (1.5m².m-2), thus poor land cover and solar radiation interception, resulting in growth reduction.

A capacidade de utilização da luz varia entre as espécies, e o sucesso de cada indivíduo depende de suas respostas morfoanatômicas. Este estudo avaliou a influência de diferentes intensidades luminosas sobre a anatomia foliar de mudas de Carapa guianensis Aubl. Folhas sadias do segundo e terceiro nós foram coletadas de plantas jovens desenvolvidas em quatro níveis de sombreamento: 30%, 50%, 70% e 0% (pleno sol), durante oito meses de experimento. Análises anatômicas foram feitas sob Microscopia Óptica (MO), a partir de lâminas temporárias e permanentes e sob Microscopia Eletrônica de Varredura (MEV). A densidade estomática não apresentou diferenças significativas. As dimensões estomáticas e a espessura dos tecidos da lâmina foliar foram maiores com o aumento da intensidade luminosa. C. guianensis apresenta plasticidade anatômica, possibilitando a sobrevivência na floresta sob distintas condições luminosas.

Euterpe precatoria Mart. has been demanded due to the functional characteristics of its fruits and, therefore, its planting has been encouraged. However, there is a lack of information about the seedling production system of this palm tree. Neither a favorable environment nor the amount of fertilizer in the substrate have been defined for the production of healthy and vigorous seedlings. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of environments and doses of a slow-release fertilizer on the production of E. precatoria seedlings. The experiment was conducted in a randomized block design, with three replications and ten plants per plot. The treatments were arranged in a 4 x 5 factorial scheme, with four environments (under shading levels of 20 %, 30 %, 50 % and 75 %) and five doses of a slow-release fertilizer (0.0 kg m-3, 2.5 kg m-3, 5.0 kg m-3, 7.5 kg m-3 and 10.0 kg m-3 of substrate). The seedling height; root collar diameter; number of leaves; leaf, shoot, root and total dry mass; and the Dickson quality index were analyzed. There were significant interactions between the shaded environments and slow-release fertilizer doses for all the analyzed variables. The 75 %-shaded environment yielded better quality seedlings. The slow-release fertilizer can be used to produce E. precatoria seedlings in environments under shading levels of 50 % and 75 %, being the 4.60 kg m-3 and 8 kg m-3 doses, respectively, the most recommended ones.

The development of Coffea canephora cultivars is based on the characterization of genotype × environment interaction, which is interpreted to quantify the differential behavior of clones at different cultivation sites. The objective of this research was to study the genotype x environment interaction aiming to select clones of broad and specific adaptation to different environments of the Western Amazon. Twelve clones with hybrid characteristics of the botanical varieties Conilon and Robusta and four open pollinated clones, had their performance evaluated in comparison with four controls. The genotype × environment interaction was interpreted based on the environmental quality index, the non-parametric estimator of Lin and Binns, 1988 and on the dispersion of the centroid method. Effects of the genotypes, environment, and genotype × environment interaction were all significant (p<0.01). The environmental quality index (Ij) classified three environments as favorable for coffee production. In terms of the Lin and Binn’s estimator (Pi), hybrid genotypes 16, 10, 13, 09 and 14 presented lower Pi indices than others, and were classified as being more stable. Five clones of low adaptability, seven clones of specific adaptability to favorable or unfavorable environments and two clones of broad adaptability to all environments were identified interpreting the dispersion of the centroid method.

No abstract