CARACTERIZAÇÃO BIOMÉTRICA DE FRUTOS E SEMENTES DE GENÓTIPOS DE MURICI (Byrsonima verbascifolia (L.) Rich.) DO TABULEIRO COSTEIRO DE ALAGOAS
2009
Rychardson Rocha de Araújo | Emanuelle Dias dos Santos | Eurico Eduardo Pinto de Lemos | Ricardo Elesbão Alves
The objective of this work was to characterize plants and fruits of native muricy (Byrsonima verbascifolia Rich. former. Juss), a tropical underutilized and endangered fruit tree in a coastal area of Northeast Brazil. There were evaluated the main biometric parameters of 20 plants and 200 fruits collected from a natural occurring area in Alagoas. The fresh fruits weight 1,21 g in average, the longitudinal and transversal diameter of the fruits were, respectively, 8,5 mm and 7,4 mm with an average income of 63% of pulp. The fresh mass of the fruit was proportional to the amount of pulp (r = 0,605; P < 0,05), indicating an interesting potential to select elite trees with fruit quality for futures works on genetic improvement.
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