REQUERIMENTOS DE POLINIZAÇÃO DO MELOEIRO (Cucumis melo l.) NO MUNICÍPIO DE ACARAÚ - CE - BRASIL
2009
Raimundo Maciel Sousa | Odaci de Sousa Aguiar | Breno Magalhães Freitas | Antonio Abreu da Silveira Neto | Tadeu Fladner Costa Pereira
This work was carried in commercial areas cultivate with muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.), variety AF- 646, in the municipal district of Acaraú, state of Ceará, Brazil. The investigation was split in four treatments: hand cross pollination, open pollination in presence of the honey bee hives, open pollination and resricted pollination. The observed variables were: rate of fruit set, fruit weight and seed number of fruits. The hand cross pollination showed the best effect to number of fruit set, fruit weight and seed number of fruits, following to open pollination in presence of the honey bee hives, open pollination and resricted pollination, without fruit set. Considering the melon cultivated at open fields and during the dry season in NE Brazil, it is possible to conclude that it depends on biotic pollinators and that honeybees promote efficientily the pollination.
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