Lettuce baby leaf production in trays with substrate reuse

• Grant number: 11/01407-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: April 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Crop Science
• Principal Investigator: Luis Felipe Villani Purquerio
• Grantee: Lívia Aguiar Sumam de Moraes
• Host Institution: Instituto Agronômico (IAC). Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios (APTA). Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento (São Paulo - Estado). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

With great increasing potential in market, baby leaf can stimulate vegetable consumption by Brazilian population, mainly children, helping to increase consumption numbers that are low in the country and reduce obesity. In the same way of market, production systems for baby leaf are beginning in Brazil needing to be studied. In the project FAPESP 2008/52305-1, recently finished, it were studied baby leaf production of four species (lettuce, watercress, table beat and rocket salad) in trays used to produce seedlings with different cell volumes. It was verified that is possible to produce baby leaf in this production system and it was also verified that substrate cost is representative in the total cost. Substrate reutilization can be a possibility to reduce production cost contributing for its optimization once that is not necessary to acquire new substrate. In parallel is necessary that the reused substrates are free of pathogens being solar treatment a tool to this finality. In that way the objectives of the present work are to verify the effect of one, two and tree reuses of coconut fiber substrate, with and without solar treatment in lettuce cv. Elisa baby leaf production in tray production system. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

LÍVIA AS MORAES; ALEX H CALORI; THIAGO L FACTOR; FLÁVIA RA PATRÍCIO; RAQUEL GHINI; MONICA F ABREU; LUIS FV PURQUERIO. Produção de alface para baby leaf em bandejas com reuso e solarização de substrato. Horticultura Brasileira, v. 34, n. 4, p. 463-469, 2016-12-00. (11/01407-1)

MORAES, L. A. S.; PURQUERIO, L. F. V.; CALORI, A. H.; FACTOR, T. L.; DORATIOTO, T. R.; NASCIMENTO, WM; SILVA, PP; ROSSETO, M. Lettuce and table beet baby leaf production in function of nitrogen doses. VI INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SEED, TRANSPLANT AND STAND ESTABLISHMENT OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS, v. 1249, p. 6-pg., 2019-01-01. (11/01407-1)