The Tephritidae family has many fruit fly species responsible for causing direct and indirect damage to economically important fruit trees worldwide. Biological control has been sought as a method for the management of these insects, mainly because it does not cause adverse damage to the environment. Thus, this review sought information on what is currently being published in the scientific field about the main biological agents that are used to control fruit flies. The information was obtained through surveys between the months of June and August 2020, in bases such as the Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Scielo. The inclusion of the articles followed criteria such as publication language English, Portuguese and Spanish, available in full, from categories A1 to B1, related to the biological agents used in the control of fruit flies and published in the last five years. A total of 2,362 studies were found, of which 105 articles were selected for this review. Regarding the years of publication, only 27% of the studies correspond to references from the years 2019 and 2020, with a greater number of research on parasitoids and developed in the laboratory. The largest concentration of research was in countries like Brazil, Mexico, and Spain.
Studies on nutrient uptake are important to understand nutritional needs of crops, which demand may also be influenced by fertilization management, particularly P fertilization. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate macronutrient accumulation and distribution in watermelon cv. Magnum, under two forms of phosphate fertilization. The experiment was carried out in a sandy-textured Argisol in Mossoró-RN. The experimental design was a randomized block design, arranged in split plot in time, with four replicates. We evaluated dose of 137 kg ha-1 of P2O5 under two forms of fertilization [pre-planting (F0) and pre-planting + topdressing (F1)]. Triple superphosphate (SFT) was used for pre-planting applications and topdressing applications were done through fertigation using monoammonium phosphate (MAP, 34 kg ha-1 of P2O5). Shoot samples (stem + leaf + fruit) of the experimental plots were collected at 27, 34, 40 and 55 days after emergence (DAE), and quantitative values of the accumulated nutrients were determined. In general, the highest accumulation of macronutrients occurred in the last third of the crop cycle. General accumulation of macronutrient was altered by fertilization form. An increase in P accumulation was observed using F1 fertilization, both in total and in fruits. Macronutrient accumulation rates increased during the evaluation period, except for Ca and Mg in F1 fertilization. F1 fertilization provided higher total accumulations of Ca and Mg, but the same did not occur for the accumulation in fruits.
A fenologia pode ser definida como o estudo dos eventos periódicos da vida da planta em função da sua reação às condições do ambiente, e sua importância está relacionada ao manejo que pode ser desenvolvido para as culturas em função desses resultados. Com o objetivo de avaliar a fenologia do coqueiro, um experimento foi conduzido no pomar didático da Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido-UFERSA. A área experimental foi composta por coqueiros da variedade anão verde com quatro anos de idade, propagadas via sementes e plantadas no espaçamento de 7,5 m x 7,5 m, irrigadas por microaspersão. Foram selecionadas, aleatoriamente, quarenta plantas, para as quais foram realizadas as observações fenológicas semanalmente, durante o período de janeiro a outubro de 2015. Foram analisadas as seguintes variáveis: altura da planta, comprimento e diâmetro do estipe, comprimento da folha n° 14, emissão do 2º, 3° e 4° cacho, número de folhas vivas, número de inflorescências totais por planta, número médio de frutos com 5, 6, 7 e 8 meses de idade, número de frutos totais e porcentagem de abortamento de frutos do cacho com 5, 6, 7 e 8 meses de idade. Os caracteres vegetativos e reprodutivos são influenciados pela idade da planta, assim como pelas condições climáticas.
Physalis peruviana L. has great exploitation potential especially for small producers in the Brazilian Northeast. However, production in semiarid regions may be limited by high salt content in soils and water sources used for irrigation. Thus, this study evaluated the application of Ascophyllum nodosum seaweed extract as saline stress attenuator in P. peruviana L. The randomized block design was used, in an incomplete 5 × 5 factorial scheme, with five of electrical conductivities of the irrigation water (0.50, 1.23, 3.00, 4.77 and 5.50 dS m -1 ) and five increasing concentrations of kelp extract (0.00, 1.45, 5.00, 8.55 and 10.00 mL L -1 ), with nine combinations generated by the Central Box matrix, with four replicates of four plants to evaluate the effect on phytomass accumulation, chlorophyll fluorescence and pigment content. Results showed, salinity significantly reduced biomass production and chlorophyll fluorescence and pigment indices. However, when plants were treated with 9.9 mL L -1 seaweed extract they increased biomass production and seedling quality. On the other hand, up to 4.1 mL L -1 , the biostimulant increased dark-adapted fluorescence indices which indicate it reduces damages to the photosynthetic apparatus caused by salt-stress and thus improving photosynthetic activity and photoassimilates production. Thus the application of A. nodosum seaweed extract attenuates the deleterious effect of salt stress in photosynthesis and thus in biomass production of P. peruviana plants.
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