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Evaluación de biomasa y contenido de almidón en yerba venezolana (Paspalum fasciculatum)
(2017)
The Mexican crowngrass (Paspalum fasciculatum) is considered an invasive species in the humid zones of Puerto Rico. Little is known about its growth and development in colonized ground, information that is important to ...
Etiología de la pudrición del cogollo de la palma aceitera (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) en el Ecuador
(2012)
Oil palm bud rot is an important disease affecting the oil palm industry in Ecuador. The disease causes yellowing and drying of young leaves, bud rot and yellowing of unopened leaves and even death of the palm when the rot ...
Análisis fenotípico y genético de frijol tépari (Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray) para tolerancia a factores bióticos y abióticos
(2018)
High temperatures, drought and diseases are critical factors that limit the production of grain legumes, especially in tropical countries. Tepary beans (Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray) is a species that is highly tolerant ...
Searching for the best methodology to determine lime requirement of selected Puerto Rican soils
(2010)
The accuracy of six methods to estimate lime requirement was evaluated using ten acid soil series from Puerto Rico. The methods selected for the research were soil-lime incubation, buffer solutions (Shoemaker-McLean-Pratt, ...
Effect of exogenous bio-regulators on organically-managed Tahiti lime (Citrus latifolia Tanaka) fruit and essential oil productivity and quality
(2013)
Tahiti or Persian lime productivity is limited because of its high abortion rate (>90%). Scientific literature is short of information regarding ethylene inhibitors, cytokinins and brassinolide in this crop and even less ...
Evaluación de bioestimulantes y prácticas orgánicas de manejo de malezas en la productividad y calidad de la fruta de pulasán [Nephelium ramboutan-ake (Labillardiére) Leenhouts]
(2015)
In 2012 and 2013 experiments were conducted in the mountains of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico to establish the effects of biostimulants and weed control in pulasán (Nephelium ramboutan-ake). The biostimulants used were seaweed ...
Descomposición de leguminosas coberturas en un oxisol en Isabela, Puerto Rico
(2011)
Lablab purpureus cv. Rongai and Mucuna pruriens (dwarf mucuna) are used as cover crops because of their beneficial contribution to physical and chemical soil properties. Two studies were conducted at the Agricultural ...
Evaluación de características hortícolas de cinco líneas avanzadas de ají dulce (Capsicum chinense Jacq.)
(2018-05)
Sweet chili is the sixth most important vegetable in Puerto Rico. It is used to make “sofrito”, an important ingredient in Puerto Rican cuisine. The production of this vegetable depends on the planting of cultivars adapted ...
Occurrence and characterization of Mn nodules in a Toposequence at Coloso valley agricultural reserve
(2010)
Manganese (Mn) nodules are sedimentary rocks, generally spherical or irregularly round in shape with concentric layers formed from manganese and iron mineral precipitation. These are redoximorphic features in soils with ...
Organic sweet pepper yield and soil microbial communities as afected by a commercial organic fertilizer and sunn hemp as a cover crop in Puerto Rico
(2013)
Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea) is a legume cover crop that produces large amounts of biomass which, combined with its relatively high nitrogen (N) content and N-fixing capacity, can potentially offset N fertilizer needs by ...