Performance of Pereskia aculeata Mill. on colored shading meshes

Abstract

With the Industrial Revolution, it became necessary to produce quality food, as well as the creation of new technologies for food production, mainly shading levels, with the use of colored shading meshes that contribute to productivity. The objective was to evaluate the performance of Ora-pro-nóbis - Pereskia aculeata Miller under shade screens with colored meshes. The work was developed at the LABPANC Unit of the Universidade Federal do Acre. The experimental design employed was the Completely Randomized, using mini-cuttings of 7.5 mm and 10 cm in height, with treatments: Full sun, Blue, Black, Red and Aluminet, with 50% colored meshes, with 5 repetitions, totaling 25 units experimental. Analyzes of height, number of leaves, number of branches and leaf area were performed. The data were submitted to analysis of variance and tukey test at 5%. In general, Pereskia aculeata presents similar results in all treatments. The black and red conditions provided the highest average height, being similar for leaf numbers, branch numbers were significant only in full sun, and leaf area showed similar results between treatments. It was concluded that the use of colored nets had a positive influence on the morphological performance of ora-pro-nobis.