The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) have high content of dietary fiber and protein of high quality, so it can be considered a functional food. The objectives of this work were: (1) to verify if occurs maternal effect ...

Periodically humanity is challenged to discovering new ways to progress, since conventional technologies fatally lose their function at the frontier of a new age. In agriculture the new challenger is get more productivity ...

The soil phosphorus availability depends on a dynamic process and it involves its different forms in the soil. The bond energy of phosphorus and its ligants drives the desorption phenomenon and lability of the different ...

The cultivation of medicinal plants, like marigold, is increasing in Brazil and is an alternative for cultivation in small areas. For this reason it is important to know about its bioclimatic requirements and its phenometric ...

The objectives of this work were divided in two experiments phases. In the first phase, it was studied the presence of trans-resveratrol in temperate climate fruits and the variation of their concentration in these fruits ...

The continuous growth of the world population, intensive competition among humans and plant pests for the same food sources, the resistence to existing inseticides by some insects and the persistence of residues in the ...

Several causes are pointed as responsible for the numbness in seeds of rice. The fenolic compounds have influence in the swinging between promoters and inhibitors of the germination of seeds, could represent an obstacle ...

The objectives of this work was to estimate the potential of flesh browning development in Gala , Royal Gala , Fuji e Braeburn apples after controlled atmosphere storage (CA). This study was realized through correlation ...

One hundred and twenty eight genotypes of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) divided into local varieties, cultivars and lines both from meso-america and andean gene pool, were evaluated in 2003 and 2004. Several experiments ...

The quality of red wine was evaluated relating the variation of meteorological conditions such as color quantification and phenolic compound. Red wines of the cultivars Vitis vinifera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Tannat, ...