SELEÇÃO AGRONÔMICA DE ACESSOS E CULTIVARES DE MAMONEIRA (Ricinus communis L.)

Abstract

The objective of this work was to evaluate agronomic and to characterize morfologic, 23 genetic materials collected with agricultural producers of diverse and regions two to cultivate, for comparative effect, ` Guarani ' and ` IAC 80 '. The experiment was established in the Department of Agriculture of the Federal University of Lavras, Lavras - MG where 23 accesses had been characterized morphologic and agronomic in accordance with the describers considered for the Agronomic Institute of Campinas. The identification of the adapted accesses more was made by means of evaluations, during one year, of the agronomic characteristics: evolution cycle, height of plant; diameter of main connecting rod; height until the insertion of first racimo; number of stem until first racimo; relation weight of first racimo and all up weight; weight of first racimo and total weight, in a competition assay. In accordance with the analysis of variance, did not have significant difference between the treatments.

Keywords

• Improvement
• Biodiesel
• Selection