La variabilidad en guayaba en las colecciones de germoplasma en Brasil es todavía bastante restricta, existiendo muchas "landraces" a ser recolectadas y caracterizadas. La necesidad de diversificar y aumentar la disponibilidad de genotipos productivos y de buena calidad, hizo con que el Instituto Agronômico de Pernambuco (IPA) introdujera en la "Chapada do Araripe", en la región semiárida del Estado de Pernambuco, una colección de germoplasma de guayabo conducida bajo régimen de sequío. La colección es constituida de 21 accesos (IPA B-22.1, IPA B-15.1, IPA B-14.3, IPA B-14.2, Patillo 1.1, Patillo 1.2, Patillo 1.3, Patillo 2.1, Patillo 2.3, Red Selection of Florida 1, Ruby Supreme.2, Ruby Supreme.3, Surubim.3, EEF.3, IPA B-38.3, IPA B-38.1, White Selection of Florida.1, White Selection of Florida.2, Pentecostes.3, Grande Vermelha.2 e Red Selection of Florida.2) originarios de varias partes de Brasil. Fueron observados descriptores de caracterización y evaluación. Debido a su rusticidad, el guayabo se adaptó a la "Chapada do Araripe" y la colección presentó una gran variabilidad entre las características evaluadas. Considerando la doble utilización de ese germoplasma, se constató que los accesos de pulpa roja para la agrindustria Patillo2.3, Ruby Supreme.3, e IPA B-15.1 se han destacado por sus buenas producciones y Red Selection of Florida.1, por aliar buena producción a frutos grandes y de pulpa espesa. Entre los accesos destinados exclusivamente al consumo in natura, se debe destacar la 'Grande Vermelha.2' por las mismas razones.

The hulls and the presscake, the two most important residues of castor processing and industrialization, are traditionally used as organic fertlizer. This study aimed to evaluate these residues as organic fertilizers in vases in order to optimize doses and promove the best use of their chemical properties. A trial was run in a randomized block design with four replications and eight treatments: four doses of castor presscake (0,5; 1,0; 1,5 e 2,0 t/ha) and four doses of castor hulls (0,5; 1,0; 1,5 e 2,0 t/ha) with addition of nitrogen fertilizer. Seeds of CSRN 393 castor bean line were planted in 22 liters vases. At 60 days after emergence, values of height, stem diameter, leaf area and total dry weight were taken. Castor bean presscake was showed to be a good organic fertilizer, mainly due to its high N content, however castor hulls was showed to be inappropriate as organic fertilizerdue to its high C/N ratio that cause nitrogen deficiency.

The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the reply of the scarlet culture (Solanum gilo Raddi) irrigated submitted the different applied doses phosphate in the plantation hollow. The used experimental delineation was of randomized blocks, being tested four levels of simple superphosphate (0, 1.000, 2.000, 3.000 kg ha-1). The phosphate fertilization in the plantation caused an increase in the following characteristics total of fruits to plant, commercial weight of fruits to plant, not commercial weight of the fruits to plant and productivity to fruits to hectare. The doses of phosphate that got a bigger efficiency to get a good productivity in the conditions of Cassilândia-MS, was of 1590 kg ha-1 of simple superphosphate that is the equivalent 286,2 kg of P2O5.