Desenvolvimento de plantas de coentro (Coriandrum sativum L.) em função da força iônica da solução nutritiva

Abstract

The coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) is found mainly in the Northeast and Northern of Brazil, where large numbers of producers are involved with their exploration, thus making it a culture of great socioeconomic importance. Your culture seeks to obtain the green mass, much used in cooking in various dishes, in addition to the production of dried fruit for use in pharmaceutical and food industries. The concentration of nutrients from the nutritive solution is a feature very important for the development of plants, and one way to measure it is the electrical conductivity. This is directly related to the content of soluble salts, which can affect the development of plants. This study aimed to evaluate in terms of a greenhouse, growth and metabolism of coriander according to the ion concentration of two nutritive solutions under conditions of hydroponic cultivation. Treatments consisted of a factorial arrangement (7 X 2), with seven levels of electrical conductivity (0.0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0 dS.m -1) and two nutritive solutions with four repetitions totaling 56 experimental units. The nutritive solutions used were according to Castellane and Furlani with modifications to achieve the desired conductivity. The plants were collected after 60 days of planting. The data were submitted to the analysis of variance and regression. The solution that produced greater amount of green mass and dry mass was to Furlani, although this solution the plants were more sensitive to increased electrical conductivity. The levels of chlorophyll and carbohydrates showed a trend of increasing proportion of these compounds to increase the electrical conductivity. When connected the levels of chlorophyll and carbohydrates and the two nutrient solutions, only to the concentration of carbohydrates was no difference between the solutions, in conductivities of 1.0 and 1.5 dS.m-1. Generally, the electrical conductivity changed the concentration of nutrients, but did not cause disturbances in the plant, since none of the ions had evaluated their negative or overpaid for the culture of coriander. So is true that the original solutions can be used for the production of hydroponic coriander.