Mulberry (Morus sp.) leaf moisture in storage enviroments

Authors

  • Antonio José Porto Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento do Estado de São Paulo, Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios, Polo Regional de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico dos Agronegócios do Centro Oeste, Unidade de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento de Gália, Gália, SP
  • Ciniro Costa Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Melhoramento e Nutrição Animal, Botucatu, SP

Keywords:

water purport, pos-harvest, storage, moisture exchange

Abstract

Mulberry leaves (IZ 56/4 cultivar) in the pos-harvest, had been taken to the laboratory and submitted to six storage environments (8 hours in open ambient-O, 8 hours in cover ambient- C, 1hO/7hC, 2hO/6hC, 3hO/5hC and 4hO/4hC), aiming to evaluate moisture exchange capacity . It was utilized the experimental design split plot with five replications (blocks), six principal treatments (parcels) and nine secondary treatments (sub parcels, weighing of hour in hour, of 08h00min. until 16h00min.). In the period of eight hours of experimentation mulberry leaves moisturedevreased in all the ambients evaluated. However, for cover leaves with wet cloth, for all periods, the water purport (74,63%) was maintained close to the original value (08h00min.- 76,07%), demonstrating the efficiency technique in the conservation of the humidity of leaves for feeding silkworm.

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Published

2010-02-25

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Section

ANIMAL NUTRITION

How to Cite

Mulberry (Morus sp.) leaf moisture in storage enviroments. (2010). Bulletin of Animal Husbandry, 67(2), 183-189. http://bia.iz.sp.gov.br/index.php/bia/article/view/1075

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