Pepper production in function of plant vibration under protected enviroment with and without lateral closing

• Grant number: 11/09459-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Crop Science
• Principal Investigator: Antônio Ismael Inácio Cardoso
• Grantee: Antônio Ismael Inácio Cardoso
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The experiment will be installed and carried out at São Manuel Experimental Farm UNESP/FCA, in São Manuel, São Paulo State, Brazil. The aim of this work will be to evaluate pepper fruit yield with and without plant "vibration" under protected environment with and without lateral closing. Randomized blocks design will be used with four replicates and six plants per plot. There will be six treatments, in a split splot design where the plots will be constituted by "vibration" or not "vibration" of plants, and subplots by pepper cultivars (Malagueta, Dirce and Dínamo). The following characteristics will be evaluated: total number of fruits per plant, number of marketable fruits per plant, total weight per plant, marketable weight per plant, rate of marketable fruits, diameter and length of the fruits, fruit average weight, commercial fruit average weight, number and weight of seeds per fruit. Tukey test will be carried at 5% of probability to compare the treatments averages and conjunt analysis will be used to compare environments. (AU)