Produção de mudas de cultivares de mamoeiro produzidas sob doses de Spirulina platensis.

Abstract

The application of biofertilizers or biostimulants for the purpose of improving the performance of agricultural crops has driven the use of products based on microalgae, as an alternative to the use of fertilizers and being ecologically correct. Thus, the objective of this work was to evaluate the production and quality of papaya seedlings produced with the use of Spirulina platensis through seed treatment and additional applications via soil and foliar via, in a protected environment. The research was carried out at the Agro-Food Science and Technology Center of the Federal University of Campina Grande, Pombal-PB. Four experiments were carried out, using a completely randomized experimental design (DIC), with five replications and three replications per replicate. In order to follow the growth of the seedlings, the split-plot scheme was composed of two factors, Spirulina platensis (0.0; 0.4; 0.8; 1.2; 1.6 and 2.0%) and (20, 28, 36, 44 and 52 days). The treatments were carried out in the seeds for five minutes and applied over time. Immersion of seeds at Spirulina platensis doses does not influence the rate of emergence and the percentage of emergence. However, the applications carried out over time via soil in papaya plants of the hybrid Tainung-1, referring to the group 'Formosa' and Sunrise soil, referring to the 'Papaya' group, influence positively, being the doses from 0.4 up to 1.6% of Spirulina platensis that provided the highest growth in the number of leaves, plant height, stem diameter, leaf area, root length, fresh shoot, root and total mass, shoot dry matter, of the root and total, root/shoot ratio and Dickson Quality Index. The 2.0% dose of Spirulina platensis provided greater accumulation of N in the leaf dry mass. However, for the 'Papaya' papaya, it influenced the fresh mass of the aerial part, root and total. For the other variables studied there was no response. The 2.0% and control dose gave higher accumulation of N and P, respectively, in the dry mass of Papaya papaya leaves.