Biometric characterization, water absorption curve and vigor on araçá-boi seeds

Submitted: 24 October 2015
Accepted: 12 December 2015
Published: 18 August 2016
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Araçà-boi is a fruit, which awakes great interest for presenting pulp of quality. Their seeds are recalcitrant and present a relatively short period of viability. The water absorption by seeds is a mechanism of growth resuming of the embryo with a subsequent of the tegument breakage by the radical. The seed electric conductivity is a vigor testing is directly related to the membrane permeability. Study of the curve of water absorption by the araçá-boi seeds will contribute to characterize their germination process. In this context, studies concerned with seeds were conducted, which characterized the mass, biometrics, water content, electric conductivity and water imbibition by seeds. It was found that the population of plants established in Manaus-AM produces small, medium and large seeds and which present 70.2, 68.2 and 47.5% of moisture. The greatest water increase takes place in the first hour of absorption, regardless of the size of seeds and water absorption velocity is not influenced by their size. The imbibition curves characterized in the 144-hour period, independent of the size of seeds, show changes of two physiological phases. Both the large and medium seeds present smaller conductivity values, obtaining smaller percentages of germination for possessing increased vigor indices.

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da Silva Moura, M. L., Chagas, E. A., Smiderle, O. J., Vilaça, R., Chagas, P. C., de Moura, E. A., & Farias, E. E. (2016). Biometric characterization, water absorption curve and vigor on araçá-boi seeds. International Journal of Plant Biology, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2016.6265