The predominant campestral vegetation in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, as well as all types of vegetal formations, may be considered as a dynamic system subject to several disturbance agents. Fire is frequently mentioned ...

It was carried an experiment, in the Fitotecnia Department of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) - RS, with objective to evaluate the nutritional quality of two species of grassy (Hordeum vulgare L. and Secale ...

Growing crops in protected environment aiming to increase productivity and quality of vegetables is commonly used in Southern Brazil , mainly to reduce the seasonality of production caused by a winter cold season. Sweet ...

Pfaffia glomerata (Spreng) Pedersen, also known as Brazilian ginseng, has been used in popular medicine due to its important medicinal qualities. This study aims to characterize the nutrient needs of P. glomerata, (Chapter ...

Many biotechnological techniques have been formed by new tools to the study of medicinal plants and for the production of homogenous and productive biomass. This work aimed to examine aspects of morphogenesis and callogenesis ...

Aluminum (Al) is the most abundant metal in the earth s crust, affecting thegrowth and development of plants. The objective of this work was to investigate and compare biochemical and physiological responses of potato ...

Tree experiments were conducted in Santa Maria end Constantina (State of Rio Grande do Sul- Brazil), objecting to determine the best plant population of type II e III of common bean grown in the season and latter season, ...

The objectives of this research were to select new strawberry clones for the estate of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and to develop methods of multiplication to obtain disease-free transplants with high physiological quality. ...

The interior of a plastic greenhouse whose plants had been cultivated on soil can be considered a heterogeneous environment due high variability in the production, being necessary the use of experimental techniques for ...

The release of new cultivars and improvement in management practices is necessary to examine the time and nitrogen (N) rates to be applied to obtain high yields. Also there is little information about the effect of the N ...