RESUMOO trabalho foi realizado em cafeeiros cultivados a pleno sol e consorciado com grevíleas em Vitória da Conquista (BA), em duas estações: seca e chuvosa, com objetivo de verificar a influência da arborização dos cafezais e da disponibilidade hídrica sobre a densidade de Fungos Micorrízicos Arbusculares (FMA) e ainda relacionar tais fatores com aspectos fisiológicos do cafeeiro. O experimento foi realizado em campos de observação com dois tratamentos e seis repetições, sendo as médias comparadas pelo teste t (p<0,05), relacionando os sistemas e as estações. Verificou-se maior número de esporos em época seca. A taxa de colonização radicular de FMA foi maior no cultivo consorciado, não diferindo em função da estação. O manejo dos cafeeiros sob sombra e a época seca contribuíram para maior teor de clorofila nas folhas. Maior valor absoluto do potencial hídrico foliar foi verificado quando avaliado na época chuvosa. Palavras-chave:Grevillea robusta A. Cunn., Coffea arabica L., micorrizas ABSTRACT ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF COFFEE CONDUCTED IN AGROFLORESTAL SYSTEM AND AT FULL SUNThe work was performed aiming to check the influence of the agroforestry system and water availability on the density of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF), and to correlate these factors with physiological aspects of coffee. This study was conducted in a full sun coffee field, where coffee plants were associated with grevilea during dry and rainy seasons. The experiment had two treatments and six replicates, and the resulting averages were compared by a t test at 5% of probability, comparing the systems and seasons. There was a rise in spore number in the dry season. Also the rate of root colonization of AMF was higher in intercropped cultivation but it did not differ between seasons. The shading of coffee plants in dry season promoted a raise of leaf Spad index. In the rainy season the leaf water potential had higher absolute value.

RESUMOObjetivou-se com este estudo avaliar o comportamento de plantas de Pterogyne nitens Tull. sob diferentes níveis de restrição luminosa durante seu desenvolvimento inicial. O estudo foi conduzido no período de março a junho de 2008, no campo agropecuário da Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia -UESB, em Vitória da Conquista, BA. Sete experimentos foram definidos por níveis de 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% e 70% de restrição luminosa e plantas mantidas a pleno sol. Cada um dos experimentos foi organizado em delineamento experimental inteiramente casualizado, com cinco repetições e parcelas constituídas por 12 plantas. Durante o período de 15 a 75 dias após a emergência das plântulas, em intervalos de 15 dias, foram avaliadas as características morfológicas e quantitativas de crescimento e o índice de qualidade Dickson (IQD). Os gradientes de restrição de luz induziram a alterações morfológicas como elevação da altura e aumento da área foliar individual e total das plantas. Reduções de massa do sistema radicular ocorreram em detrimento de tais modificações. Invariavelmente, os maiores índices de IQD foram verificados para as plantas mantidas sob 36,5% de restrição luminosa. Palavras-chave: viveiro; sombreamento; luz; índice de qualidade. ABSTRACTThe objective of this study was to evaluate the initial development and quality of seedlings Pterogyne nitens Tull., produced under different luminosity levels. The experiment was conducted from March to June 2008, in the agricultural field at the State University of Southwestern Bahia state -UESB, in Vitoria da Conquista, BA state. Seven experiments were defined for levels of 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% and 70% of light restriction and plants kept in full sun. For each experiment was followed the completely randomized design with five replications and each experimental unit was composed for12 plants. In a period from 15 to 75 days after the plant emergence, at intervals of 15 days, the morphological and quantitative characteristics of growth and quality index of Dickson (IQD) were evaluated. The constraint of light gradients induced morphological changes such as raising the height and increased individual and total leaf area of plants. Reductions in root system mass occurred at the expense of such modifications. Invariably, the highest rates were observed for the IQD plants lied under 36.5% light restriction.

No abstract

No abstract

Nitrogen metabolism in two coffee cultivation systems during drought period of the rainy seasonThe objective of this work was to evaluate the influence of a short drought period in the middle of the rainy season on nitrogen assimilation of coffee plants shaded by avocado (Persea americana Mill.) and Inga edulis Mart. in comparison with unshaded plants, in January (drought period of rainy season) and March (end of rainy season), with 5 replications per experimental field. The highest nitrate-N foliar content was observed in the full sun system, in all evaluations. In March, there was higher organic N accumulation in the upper third of the canopy of full sun plants and in the middle part of the shaded coffee. Higher values of nitrate-N and a tendency to a higher nitrate reductase activity were found in the shaded coffee, when evaluations were carried out in the same part of the coffee canopy..