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| Author(s): |
Guilhermo Francklin de Souza Congio
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2010-10-08 |
| Examining board members: |
Moacyr Corsi;
Jose Raul Valerio;
José Djair Vendramim
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| Advisor: | Moacyr Corsi |
| Abstract | |
Among the pests found in pastures spittlebugs have a prominent place due to large economic losses. However, the lack of studies to quantify forage plants responses to insect attack difficult to understand the magnitude of the damage, preventing the definition of control strategies. The objective of this experiment was to characterize and quantify responses of Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu under infestation levels of adult spittlebugs of the genus Mahanarva sp. (Hemiptera: Cercopidae). The experiment was carried out in a greenhouse, at Piracicaba SP and their treatments corresponded to four spittlebugs infestation levels (5, 10, 20 and 40 adults pot-1) plus the control (no spittlebugs), distributed in the experimental units (pots) according to a completely randomized design. The study included period of infestation by insects and regrowth of plants and evaluated the following response variables: forage accumulation and morphological composition, bromatological parameters (phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sulfur (S), crude protein (CP) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF)), root mass, organic reserves content in reserve organs, morphogenetic and structural characteristics. Increased infestation levels provided reduction in forage accumulation with results adjusted to the quadratic regression model. The proportion of leaves, stems and dead material were also affected by the insects. In general, the concentration of bromatological parameters was elevated with increasing infestation levels, CP and S responded linearly, and P and Ca were adjusted to a quadratic regression model. The number of live tillers increased with increasing infestation levels in quadratic manner. The residue and roots mass, as well as the nonstructural carbohydrates concentration in accumulation organs, was influenced only during the regrowth period. The total nitrogen concentration was influenced by the interaction between infestation levels and regrowth period both in the residue fraction as in roots. Among morphogenetic characteristics, the elongation and leaf senescence rates were affected with results adjusted to linear and quadratic regression model, respectively. Among the structural, the final leaf length and stem length responded linearly and quadratically respectively. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/04701-8 - Characterization and quantification of two spittlebugs species (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) injuries in Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu at two cutting heights. |
| Grantee: | Guilhermo Francklin de Souza Congio |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |