Importância da vegetação espontânea na polinização de pimenta, Capsicum frutescens

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Rafael Macedo de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3997
• topic: Capsicum frutescens; Polinização por insetos; Manejo da vegetação; Capsicum frutescens; Pollination by insects; Vegetation management; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::FITOSSANIDADE::ENTOMOLOGIA AGRICOLA

In most Brazilian regions a landscape of patches of native vegetation is found in an array of productive systems. This has caused a decrease in pollinator diversity and consequently the production of various crops. This work was initially studied the stigmatic receptivity of chilli pepper, Capsicum frutescens and the importance of pollination in the production (Chapter 1). Subsequently, the main pollinators of chili, the importance of spontaneous vegetation in the abundance of floral visitors and production of chilli pepper (Chapter 2) was studied. The experiments lasting flower and stigmatic receptivity were conducted in the laboratory of Entomology EPAMIG with 30 buds. Have the experiment to evaluate the importance of pollination in the production was performed in Oratorios/MG , in which 896 flower buds were marked to compose the two treatments , and restricted free pollination . Finally experiments of importance of spontaneous vegetation attract pollinators and production of chilli pepper were conducted in the municipalities of Oratorios/MG in six plants composed of 100 experimental sites, three free spontaneous vegetation and three containing spontaneous vegetation in edge and the line between the cultivation of pepper and Piranga/MG which had four of eight experimental areas free of spontaneous vegetation and the other four had the presence of spontaneous vegetation at the edge of cultivation and leading. The stigmatic receptivity occurred on the day of anthesis of 9 to 12 hours. The main floral visitors were bees, Tetragonisca angustula being the only species considered common in the environment. The diversity of floral visitors was higher in areas with pepper and without spontaneous vegetation. However, the area with natural vegetation present in one of the edges of the crop had greater abundance of floral visitors, showing that spontaneous vegetation is important for attracting pollinators. The proceeds of fruits pollinated flowers had greater mass than fruits of restricted pollination. The areas surrounded with spontaneous vegetation had a higher production of pepper compared with areas without spontaneous vegetation. Therefore, the spontaneous vegetation is important for higher abundance of pollinators and increased production of pepper.