Produção de biomassa e teor de cumarina em folhas de guaco (Mikania laevigata Sch. Bip. ex Baker) em diferentes idades da planta

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Dayane Graziella Pereira de Oliveirs dos [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/138871
• topic: Medicinal plants; Phytochemistry; Spectrophotomete; Asteraceae; Cultivo de plantas medicinais; Espectrofotômetro; Fitoquímica

The species Mikania laevigata Sch. Bip. ex Baker, popularly known as guaco, belongs to the Asteraceae family and it is native to southern Brazil it is among the medicinal plants adopted by the Unified Health System in Brazil (SUS). M. laevigata is a promising option in agricultural cultivation of medicinal plants and is accessible to small farmers, in view of the growing demand of the Brazilian market for herbal medicines. Since medicinal plants are classified as natural products, the law allows them to be grown and marketed it they achieve the required quality standards. This work was conducted at the Lageado Experimental Farm, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences - UNESP, Botucatu, State of São Paulo. The objective of this research was to evaluate the productivity of biomass and coumarin content of guaco harvested at different ages of the plant. It was observed higher productivity for the variables evaluated at eleven months of guaco, obtaining 0.96 t ha-1 of dry leaf and there was no statistical difference in the coumarin content at 7, 9, and 11 months of age Mikania laevigata. The conditions under which the survey was conducted, the higher biomass yield x coumarin content of guaco was obtained at 11 months of age, which enabled the best result for the extraction yield of coumarin in dry leaves.