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Minimum number of measurements for evaluating Bertholletia excelsa.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR, 2017 Repeatability studies on fruit species are of great importance to identify the minimum number of measurements necessary to accurately select superior genotypes. This study aimed to identify the most efficient method to estimate the repeatability coefficient (r) and predict the minimum number of measurements needed for a more accurate evaluation of ...
A B, Baldoni +4 more
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Acta Amazonica, 2012 A study was carried out to evaluate the association of levels of radioactivity, selenium and aflatoxin in shelled Brazil nuts, which were classified in different sizes, for export.
Maristela Martins +5 more
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Pest potencial of Sitophilus zeamais on Brazil nut under storage conditions
Bioscience Journal, 2020 The Brazil nut, fruit of Bertholletia excelsa H.B.K., a native plant of the Amazon region and may be considered one of the main extractivist products of countries like Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil.
Evaldo Martins Pires +5 more
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Photosynthetica, 2020 Phosphorus (P) fertilization and liming can reduce negative effects caused by a sudden increase in light availability after thinning of forest plantations.
K.C. PIRES DA COSTA +2 more
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Aflatoxins in raw Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa H.B.K.)
Journal of Agricultural Studies, 2023 The Brazil nut is a nutritionally rich food, produced and consumed in tropical regions. On the other hand, it may be suitable to toxigenic fungi and consequently contamination by aflatoxins (AFL), toxic substances to consumers. In this context, the objective of this work was to evaluate the occurrence of AFL in raw Brazil nuts, that is, before being ...
Ariane Mendonça Kluczkovski +4 more
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Anthropogenic landscape in southeastern Amazonia: contemporary impacts of low-intensity harvesting and dispersal of Brazil nuts by the Kayapó Indigenous people. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Brazil nut, the Bertholletia excelsa seed, is one of the most important non-timber forest products in the Amazon Forest and the livelihoods of thousands of traditional Amazonian families depend on its commercialization. B.
Maria Beatriz N Ribeiro +6 more
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Growth and functional leaf traits of coppice regrowth of Bertholletia excelsa during an El Niño event in the central Amazon [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2023 The most severe drought of this century in the Amazon rainforest, which was caused by El Niño, occurred from 2015 to 2016. With a focus on the ecophysiology of the regrowth of the Brazil nut tree, Bertholletia excelsa, it was investigated how the ...
Saine Leonam Kador FORTES +6 more
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Effect of Mechanical, Chemical and Physical Scarification on the Germination of Brazil Nut Seeds (Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl.) in Peru [PDF]
Nature Environment and Pollution TechnologyBertholletia excelsa Bonpl. (Brazil nut) is an economically important species in the Amazon, whose natural seed production takes between 365 and 545 days and shows low germination rates.
Josue Ely Ponce-Avila, Jairo Edson Gutiérrez-Collao, Julio Miguel Ángeles-Suazo, Charles Frank Saldaña-Chafloque, Benancio Pantoja-Medina, Rodrigo Ponce-Escobal and Flor Yenny Tucto-Ortega
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Ciência Florestal, 2012 This work objectives to analyze the absolute growth rate (AGR), leaf gas exchange and leaf water potential (YW) of young Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa Humb.
Marciel José Ferreira +2 more
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Growth and survival over ten years of Brazil-nut trees planted in three anthropogenic habitats in northern Amazonia [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2021 We examined the growth and survival of Brazil-nut trees, Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidaceae) under different environmental conditions and levels of canopy openness within experimental plantations in the Trombetas River valley, in northern Brazil.
Ricardo SCOLES, Rogério GRIBEL
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