Growth of forage palm cultivars irrigated with saline waters

Pereira, Mariana de Oliveira; Ramos, Jailton Garcia; Tomaz, Beatriz de Araújo; Cabral, João Henrique de Andrade; Pereira, Márcia Cristina de Araújo; Azevedo, Carlos Alberto Vieira de; Lyra, Gustavo Bastos; Silva, Patrícia Ferreira da

Forage palm (Cactaceae) is considered an important resource in the semiarid region of Brazil. This study aimed to analyze the effect of different levels of salinity in irrigation water on the growth of three forage palm cultivars. The study was conducted at the Federal University of Campina Grande (7° 12' 52.6" S; 35° 54' 22.3" W) in 120 L pots open to the sky. The experiment was a complete randomized block, with four replications and a 4 × 3 factorial arrangement. The treatments consisted of four levels of salinity in irrigation water with electrical conductivity of 0.2, 2.0, 3.8, and 5.6 dS m¹, and three forage palm cultivars Miúda or Doce (Nopalea cochenillifera Salm Dyck), Orelha de Elefante (Opuntia stricta), and Baiana or IPASertânia (Nopalea cochenillifera Salm Dyck). At 150 days after treatments, it was evaluated length, width and perimeter of primary and secondary cladodes and total number of cladodes. Variance analysis was performed using an F-test (p < 0.05); significant effects were subjected to quadratic regression analysis for the quantitative variable, and the Tukey test (p < 0.05) for the qualitative variable. Salinity levels in irrigation water did not affect the growth variables. There was a significant difference in the growth of forage palm as a function of its cultivar. The Baiana cultivar showed the highest vegetative growth of length and perimeter of primary and secondary cladodes, while Miúda and Orelha de Elefante presented the greatest cladode numbers for plant and cladode widths, respectively.

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Growth of forage palm cultivars irrigated with saline waters / Crescimento de cultivares de palma forrageira irrigadas com águas salinas

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