Tratamento alternativo para o controle de pragas durante o armazenamento de sementes de feijão: Phaseolus vulgaris L., var. carioca e Vigna unguiculata L. Walp. var. cariri.

Abstract

This work has got as its aims to make sure about alternative products efficiency, the physiological and sanitary quality of beans seeds {Phaseolus vulgaris L.) kind carioca and (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) kind cariri in Solanea's county, PB for six months of storage. Statistic lining all casual has been used, with factorial arrange 9 x 6 represented by nine treatment and six storage stages, with four repetitions. The physiological quality of seeds was checked from the beginnig through every 30 day storage according to the following parameters: wet intensity, infestation level, germination and strength. By the results it was possible to conclude that the seeds of carioca beans could keep their physiological quality, without lost of strength or germination during all period of storage, not depending on the alternative products application; whereas seeds of cariri beans had their physiological quality decreased, presenting lost of strength and germination during the storage process. Orange peel and crashed pepper were the most efficient alternative products to hold infestation in cariri beans seeds.