• Low salt stress affects physiological parameters and sugarcane plant growth 

  Cruz, Flávio José Rodrigues ; Júnior, Domingos da Costa Ferreira ; dos Santos, Durvalina Maria Mathias (Australian Journal of Crop Science, 2018) [Artigo]

  Sugarcane is a renewable source for biofuel production and widely grown in tropical regions of the world. However, its cultivation might be limited in regions with soils affected by high level of soluble salts. This work ...

• A glimpse into the physiological, biochemical and nutritional status of soybean plants under Ni-stress conditions 

  Reis, André Rodrigues dos ; de Queiroz Barcelos, Jéssica Pigatto ; de Souza Osório, Christian Rones Wruck; Santos, Elcio Ferreira; Lisboa, Lucas Aparecido Manzani ; Santini, José Mateus Kondo ; dos Santos, Maria José Dornelas ; Furlani Junior, Enes ; Campos, Marcelo ; de Figueiredo, Paulo Alexandre Monteiro et al. (Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2017) [Artigo]

  Nickel (Ni) toxicity has been reported to decrease productivity in soybean (Glycine max L.). However, soybean responses to Ni toxicity are not well understood. The aim of the present study was to describe Ni toxicity in ...

• Sperm count of Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862) populations with distinct life histories, with introduction of a simple counting method 

  Paschoal, Lucas Rezende Penido ; Zara, Fernando José (Aquaculture, 2018) [Artigo]

  Sperm count is an important quality assessment tool in farming programs and stock improvement in crustaceans. However, this procedure is still little used in caridean shrimps and standardization of appropriate techniques ...

• Alteration in expression of atrogenes and IGF-1 induced by fasting in Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus juveniles 

  Nebo, Caroline ; Overturf, Ken; Brezas, Andreas; Dal-Pai-Silva, Maeli ; Portella, Maria Célia (International Aquatic Research, 2017) [Artigo]

  The growth rate of farmed fish is an important factor regarding aquaculture success. An understanding of the cellular events that occur in skeletal muscle when fish undergo periods of fasting and refeeding provides information ...

• Do conspecific populations exhibit divergent phenological patterns? A study case of widespread savanna species 

  Lacerda, Dinnie Michelle Assunção; de Araújo Barros, Judá Ben-Hur; de Almeida, Eduardo Bezerra; Rossatto, Davi Rodrigo (Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants, 2017) [Artigo]

  Widespread savanna tree species can grow and survive at sites that diverge in water availability and seasonality, thus these species may be able to adjust their phenology in response to site variations. Here we evaluated ...

• Eficácia do diquat isolado e em mistura com fontes de cobre no controle da macrófita submersa Hydrilla verticillata e da microalga Ankistrodesmus gracilis 

  Malaspina, I. C. ; Cruz, C.; Garlich, N. ; Bianco, S. ; Pitelli, R. A. (Planta Daninha, 2017) [Artigo]

  The goal of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of diquat, both isolated and associated with copper sources (oxychloride and hydroxide) in controling the H. Verticillata submerged macrophyte and the A. Gracilis ...

• Morpho-anatomical characterization of diaspores and seedlings of Livistona rotundifolia 

  Viana, Fábio Alessandro Padilha; Costa, Anne Pinheiro; Moro, Fabíola Vitti ; Pivetta, Kathia Fernandes Lopes (Ornamental Horticulture, 2016) [Artigo]

  Livistona rotundifolia (Lam.) Mart. (Arecaceae) is an ornamentally important species used for landscaping and commonly grown as a potted plant. However, seedling production is hindered by the lack of information available ...

• Characterization of new exopolysaccharide production by Rhizobium tropici during growth on hydrocarbon substrate 

  Castellane, Tereza Cristina Luque ; Campanharo, João Carlos ; Colnago, Luiz Alberto; Coutinho, Isabel Duarte; Lopes, Érica Mendes ; Lemos, Manoel Victor Franco ; de Macedo Lemos, Eliana Gertrudes (International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2017) [Artigo]

  Exopolysaccharide (EPS) are produced by a diverse of rhizobia species and has been demonstrated to be a bioemulsifier with potential applications in the degradation of hydrocarbons. In the present study, attempts were made ...

• Composição química e teste de tetrazólio em sementes de Syagrus romanzoffiana (Cham.) Glassman 

  Iossi, Emerson ; Moro, Fabiola Vitti ; Vieira, Bruno Guilherme Torres Licursi ; Barbosa, Rafael Marani; Vieira, Roberval Daiton (Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2016) [Artigo]

  Queen palm is a tropical species of ecological importance and economic potential in various uses, including food. However, the knowledge about the nutritional value of fruits and the estimation of seed viability are still ...

• Cadmium Application in Tomato: Nutritional Imbalance and Oxidative Stress 

  Nogueirol, Roberta Corrêa; Monteiro, Francisco Antonio; Gratão, Priscila Lupino ; de Alcântara da Silva, Berenice Kussumoto; Azevedo, Ricardo Antunes (Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 2016) [Artigo]

  Over the last few decades, the concentration of cadmium (Cd) in the environment has increased considerably in many countries due to anthropogenic activities. Cd is one of the most toxic pollutants in the environment and ...

• Leaf epidermis images for robust identification of plants 

  Da Silva, Núbia Rosa; Oliveira, Marcos William Da Silva; Filho, Humberto Antunes De Almeida; Pinheiro, Luiz Felipe Souza ; Rossatto, Davi Rodrigo ; Kolb, Rosana Marta ; Bruno, Odemir Martinez (Scientific Reports, 2016) [Artigo]

  This paper proposes a methodology for plant analysis and identification based on extracting texture features from microscopic images of leaf epidermis. All the experiments were carried out using 32 plant species with 309 ...

• Interference of seeding and regrowth of signalgrass weed (Urochloa decumbens) during the initial development of Eucalyptus urograndis (E. grandis × E. urophylla) 

  Bacha, Allan Lopes ; Pereira, Fernanda Campos Mastrotti ; Pires, Rodrigo Neto; Nepomuceno, Mariluce Pascoina ; Alves, Pedro Luís da Costa Aguiar (Australian Journal of Crop Science, 2016) [Artigo]

  Young eucalyptus seedlings in general are sensitive to stress factors during early development and establishment. Weed competition is one of the major biotic effects contributing to reductions on the initial growth of ...

• Eficácia do diquat, hidróxido de cobre, oxicloreto de cobre e suas associações no controle da macrófita submersa Ceratophyllum demersum 

  Garlich, N. ; Cruz, C. ; Silva, A. F. ; Malaspina, I. C. ; Ferreira, R. G. ; Tedesque, M. G. ; Pitelli, R. A. ; Bianco, S. (Planta Daninha, 2016) [Artigo]

  The aims of this study were to evaluate the effectiveness of diquat, copper hydroxide, copper oxychloride and their associations diquat + 0.1% copper oxychloride and diquat + 0.1% copper hydroxide to control Cerathophyllum ...

• Mineral nutrition and specific leaf area of plants under contrasting long-term fire frequencies: a case study in a mesic savanna in Australia 

  de Souza, Marcelo Claro ; Rossatto, Davi Rodrigo ; Cook, Garry David; Fujinuma, Ryosuke; Menzies, Neal William; Morellato, Leonor Patricia Cerdeira ; Habermann, Gustavo (Trees - Structure and Function, 2016) [Artigo]

  Key message: The association between frequent long-term fires and soil fertility may control the nutritional status and leaf scleromorphism of Australian savanna species. Abstract: Fire frequency is considered to be a ...

• Medium to large-sized mammals of the augusto ruschi biological reserve, São Paulo state, Brazil 

  Fornitano, Larissa ; Angeli, Thaís ; Costa, Rômulo Theodoro ; Olifiers, Natalie; Bianchi, Rita de Cassia (Oecologia Australis, 2015) [Artigo]

  Although São Paulo state presents two biodiversity hotspots – the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest – it currently retains only 13% of its native vegetation, which is divided into 8,300 fragments harboring as a whole at least ...

• Morfoanatomia do fruto, da semente e da plântula de Ormosia paraensis Ducke 

  Silva, Breno Marques da Silva; Silva, Camila de Oliveira; Môro, Fabíola Vitti ; Vieira, Roberval Daiton (Journal of Seed Science, 2015) [Artigo]

  Ormosia paraensis Ducke, known as “tento”, has seeds that are used to make handcrafts and wood that is worked on by furniture makers. For forest identification and seeds technology, the information about the morphoanatomy ...

• Identifying plant species using architectural features in leaf microscopy images 

  Florindo, Joao Batista; Bruno, Odemir Martinez; Rossatto, Davi Rodrigo ; Kolb, Rosana Marta ; Gómez, Maria Cecilia; Landini, Gabriel (Botany, 2016) [Artigo]

  This work proposes an analytical method to identify plant species based on microscopy images of the midrib cross-section of leaves. Unlike previous shape-based approaches based on the individual shape of external contours ...

• Toxicidade e capacidade de ligação de proteínas Cry1 a receptores intestinais de Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) 

  Sebastião, Isis ; Lemes, Ana Rita Nunes ; Figueiredo, Camila Soares ; Polanczyk, Ricardo Antonio ; Desidério, Janete Apparecida ; Lemos, Manoel Victor Franco (Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira, 2015) [Artigo]

  The objective of this work was to evaluate the toxicity and the binding capacity of the Cry1Aa, Cry1Ab, Cry1Ac, and Cry1Ca proteins, from Bacillus thuringiensis, to Helicoverpa armigera intestine receptors. Binding analysis ...

• Preferência alimentar e consumo de macrófitas aquáticas submersas pelo caramujo Pomacea Canaliculata 

  Cruz, C. ; Silva, A. F. ; Venturini, F. P. ; Garlich, N. ; Pitelli, R. L.C.M. ; Pitelli, R. A. (Planta Daninha, 2015) [Artigo]

  The objective of this study was to evaluate the consumption potential, food preference and use of snail Pomacea canaliculata as a biocontrol agent of four submerged aquatic macrophytes (Ceratophyllum demersum, Egeria densa, ...

• Ecotoxicidade da vinhaça para o peixe mato grosso (Hyphessobrycon eques) e para a macrófita lentilha d’água (Lemna minor) 

  da Silva, Adilson Ferreira ; Carraschi, Silvia Patrícia ; Gírio, Ana Cristina Fausto ; Neto, Antônio Nader ; da Cruz, Claudinei; Pitelli, Robinson Antonio (Boletim do Instituto de Pesca, 2015) [Artigo]

  The aims of this study were to evaluate the possibility of using the tetra-serpae fish (Hyphessobrycon eques) and macrophyte duckweed (Lemna minor) as biomarkers of toxicity of vinasse, estimating the LC50 and mortality ...

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