Efeito do período de armazenamento sobre a brotação de mudas de bananeiras do cultivar "nanicão" (musa acuminata aaa)

Abstract

Because of the tremendous current dernand for Nanicão {Musa acuminata AAA) banana shoots in the state of Goiás, notably in the "Mato Grosso Goiano" área,shoots ha ve had to be imported from far away. The greater part of these shoots are transpor􀄮ed in rootstalk form. Each root􀀩 talk weighs approximately l Kg. A larger portion of these shoots than been anticipated, are defective. The present study 􀅍as undertation to determine the effect of storage. 􀀲irne on the budding of this particular banana rootstalk. The resulta of the experiment show that d􀀂 ring the period of storages, forty-two (42) days,that was studied, there was almost no difference in budding among the rootstalks. Only those which were stored for five (5) weeks showed, unexplainably, a low budding index.