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Journal of Agronomy

Year: 2015 | Volume: 14 | Issue: 2 | Page No.: 98-101
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Sample Dimension for Estimation of Biomass and Yield of Sunn (Crotalaria juncea L.) and Showy rattlebox (C. spectabilis Roth.)

Paulo Eduardo Teodoro
State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), 87020-900, Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Carlos Antonio da Silva Junior
Departament of Agronomy, State University of Maringá (UEM), Av. Colombo, 5790-Bloco J45, Postal Code 87020-900, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil
Larissa Pereira Ribeiro
State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), 87020-900, Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Flavia Alves da Silva
State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), 87020-900, Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Caio Cesar Guedes Corraa
State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), 87020-900, Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Angelita dos Santos Zanuncio
State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), 87020-900, Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Francisco Eduardo Torres
State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), 87020-900, Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Green manure brings numerous benefits that promote, essentially, the maintenance and conservation of agro-systems and its implementation is fundamental to Brazilian Cerrado region. In this scenario, the present research aimed to determine the sample size for estimation biomass and productivity of sunn and showy rattlebox. The experiment was installed in the experimental area of the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul-Unit University Aquidauana (UEMS/UUA), located in the Brazilian Cerrado. It were randomly selected 45 plants in the experimental area of each crop to determine Fresh Mass (FM), Dry Mass (DM) and yield (YI), being the measures of central tendency, variability, asymmetry and kurtosis were calculated and checked for normality by Lilliefors’s test. In sunn and showy rattlebox, 340 and 197 plants, respectively, are sufficient for the estimation of evaluated descriptors, with confidence interval of 95%. The species evaluated did not differ for the characters FM and DM, both of which are recommended for cultivation in the Cerrado.
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Paulo Eduardo Teodoro, Carlos Antonio da Silva Junior, Larissa Pereira Ribeiro, Flavia Alves da Silva, Caio Cesar Guedes Corraa, Angelita dos Santos Zanuncio and Francisco Eduardo Torres, 2015. Sample Dimension for Estimation of Biomass and Yield of Sunn (Crotalaria juncea L.) and Showy rattlebox (C. spectabilis Roth.). Journal of Agronomy, 14: 98-101.

DOI: 10.3923/ja.2015.98.101

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