“…DQI is considered a good indicator of seedling quality as it is a weighted morphological measurement that considers robustness and balance of seedling dry mass distribution (Abreu et al, 2019), so DQI values may vary according to the species, seedling age, and treatment applied (Araújo et al, 2020). Furthermore, seedling quality is affected by nutrient Initial growth and quality of jussara… availability in the substrate (Silva, Marco, Welter, Viel, & Ros, 2020b). There are different DQI values for palm seedlings (Silva et al, 2015;Silva et al, 2017;Almeida et al, 2018;Oliveira, Carneiro, Pereira, Andrade, & Silva-Matos, 2019;Araújo et al, 2020;Bezerra, Andrade Neto, Lunz, Araújo, & Araújo, 2020;Ferreira et al, 2021;Souza et al, 2022), so there is no a determined mean value for such characteristic yet, what indicates the need for further studies so palm seedlings of high quality may be considered (Araújo et al, 2020;Souza et al, 2022).…”