Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Item Compositional changes of proteins and amino acids in germinating coffee seeds(Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar, 2000-07) Shimizu, Milton Massao; Mazzafera, PauloEndosperm is the main reserve tissue in coffee seeds. Coffee (Coffea arabica L.) seeds were germinated for six weeks and qualitative and quantitative changes in amino acids and proteins were investigated. The total content of free amino acids were reduced during germination, however, protein content remained constant. SDS-PAGE profiles showed that legumin-like proteins became less stained in the last weeks. Asparagine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, alanine and lysine were the major free amino acids, although serine and glutamine were also significant. Except for tyrosine, which increased with germination, all other amino acids were reduced. Analysis of the amino acid composition of the total soluble protein showed glutamic acid/glutamine and glycine as the main amino acids. However, other amino acids such as leucine, aspartic acid/asparagine, alanine, lysine, serine were also found in reasonable amounts.Item Influence of coffee pruning on the severity of frost damage(Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar, 2000-03) Androcioli Filho, Armando; Caramori, Paulo HenriqueFrost damages in a field experiment of pruning types and systems for the cultivars of Coffea arabica Catuaí and Mundo Novo, were evaluated at Londrina (23 o 22’S, 52 o 10 ́W), State of Parana, southern Brazil, during the winter of 1990 and 1994. Pruning types evaluated were ‘esqueletamento’ (cutting off all plagiotropic branches at 20-30 cm from the orthotropic branch), ‘decote’ (cutting off the orthotropic branch at 1.5 m and 2.0 m above ground) and ‘recepa’ (cutting off the orthotropic branch at 0.8 m above ground), performed on all rows and on alternate rows, and on different sections of the plant. Results indicated that frost damage could increase according to the type and height of pruning. The pruning type ‘esqueletamento’ and prunings at higher levels were more suitable for regions with frost risk. Under severe frost condition, pruning type did not affect the damage in anyone of the treatments evaluated.Item Genetic diversity among forty coffee varieties assessed by rapd markers associated with restriction digestion(Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar, 2005-07) Diniz, Leandro Eugênio Cardamoni; Ruas, Claudete de Fátima; Carvalho, Valdemar de Paula; Torres, Fabrício Medeiros; Ruas, Eduardo Augusto; Santos, Melissa de Oliveira; Sera, Tumoru; Ruas, Paulo MaurícioThe genetic variability of 40 accessions of C. arabica was evaluated using a combination of the random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique and restriction digestion of genomic DNA. The genetic variability and the relatedness among all accessions were initially evaluated using 195 RAPD primers which revealed a very low level of genetic variation. To improve the efficiency in the detection of polymorphism, the genomic DNA of all accessions were submitted to digestion with restriction endonucleases prior to PCR amplification. A total of 24 primers combined with restriction digestion of DNA rendered 318 bands, of which 266 (83.65%) were polymorphic. The associations among genotypes were estimated using UPGMA-clustering analysis. The accessions were properly clustered according to pedigree and agronomic features. The ability to distinguish among coffee accessions was greater for RAPD plus restriction digestion than for RAPD alone, providing evidences that the combination of the techniques was very efficient for the estimation of genetic relationship among C. arabica genotypes.Item Production, composition, fatty acids profile and stability of milk and blood composition of dairy cows fed high polyunsaturated fatty acids diets and sticky coffee hull(Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar, 2014-07) Santos, Geraldo Tadeu dos; Schogor, Ana Luiza Bachmann; Romero, Jakeline Vieira; Lima, Luciano Soares de; Pintro, Paula Toshimi Matumoto-; Grande, Paula Adriana; Kazama, Daniele Cristina da Silva; Santos, Fabio Seiji dosFour lactating Holstein cows were assigned to a 4 × 4 Latin square design to determine the effects of feeding sticky coffee hull (SCH) as a source of antioxidants on dairy cows fed with high PUFA diets. The treatments (on DM basis) were control diet, diet with 30 g/kg of soybean oil, diet with 30 g/kg of soybean oil and 100 g/kg of SCH, and diet with 30 g/kg of soybean oil and 150 g/kg of SCH. Inclusion of 150 g/kg of SCH decreased the crude protein digestibility. Lower values of NDF digestibility were also observed when cows were fed with 100 g/kg and 150g/kg of SCH. The digestibility of NDT was lower in the control and 150 g/kg of SCH diets. Milk production and composition did not differ among the treatments. Inclusion of SCH increased the total polyphenols and flavonoids in the milk and reducing power as well. Soybean oil and SCH supplementation increased the LDL and total cholesterol concentration in the plasma. Milk fatty acid profile was barely altered by the treatments. In conclusion, the results confirmed that SCH added up to 15% in the diet did not alter milk production, improved its stability, and incorporated antioxidants substances in the milk, improving its quality for human health.Item Tolerance of arabica coffee cultivars for aluminum in nutritive solution(Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar, 2011-09) Macedo, Célia Maria Peixoto de; Lopes, José Carlos; Amaral, José Augusto Teixeira do; Fonseca, Aymbiré Francisco Almeida da; Amaral, José Francisco Teixeira doThis work aimed to evaluate the Coffea arabica cultivars for aluminum toxicity tolerance, in modified Hoagland solution. A completely randomized design with five repetitions in a factorial 4 x 4 (cultivar x combinations of aluminum) was used. After 44 days of the sowing, were transferred ten seedlings each cultivar germinated in the absence of Al 3+ to solution without Al 3+ , and ten for solution with Al 3+ ; ten seedlings each cultivar germinated in presence of Al 3+ to solution without Al 3+ , and ten for solution with Al 3+ . In the treatment with aluminum, the element was added to the nutritive solution in the concentration of 0.83 mmol L -1 as Al 2 (SO 4 ) 3 .16H 2 O. The cultivars Catuaí Amarelo IAC 62 and Iapar 59 were tolerant to the aluminum; cultivar Oeiras presented intermediate tolerance, while cultivar Obatã IAC 1669-20 was sensitive. The tolerance of the coffee cultivars to the aluminum during the initial development of the seedlings did not depend on the presence of aluminum in the germination phase.Item Partial resistance to fruit necrosis associated to Colletotrichum spp. among arabic coffee genotypes(Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar, 2007-05) Sera, Gustavo Hiroshi; Sera, Tumoru; Ito, Dhalton Shiguer; Azevedo, José Alves de; Ribeiro Filho, Claudionor; Mata, João Siqueira daThe aim of this study was to evaluate the resistance to fruit necrosis associated to Colletotrichum spp. in Coffea arabica L.. Twenty-two arabic coffee genotypes were performed in a randomized block design, with three replications and ten plants per plot. They were evaluated for the variables fruit necrosis, luminosity index inside of the plant canopy and fruits per productive nodes of the plants. There was genetic variability for the resistance to fruit necrosis. Different partial resistance levels, varying from highly susceptible (score = 3.89) to moderately resistant (score = 1.77) were observed. The genotypes that presented moderate resistance were the cultivars IPR- 100, IPR-103, IPR-105 and IPR-108 and the coffee selection IAPAR-00023.