African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12496

Full Length Research Paper

Phenology of “Niagara Rosada” grapevines grafted on different rootstocks grown on Cerrado (Brazilian savanna) of Goiás State, Brazil

Mauro Brasil Dias Tofanelli1*, Renato Vasconcelos Botelho2, Erasmo José Paioli Pires3, Laίze Aparecida Ferreira Vilela4 and Diego Oliveira Ribeiro4
1Departamento de Engenharia Agronômica, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 49100-000 São Cristóvão, Sergipe, Brasil. 2Universidade do Centro Oeste, Unicentro, Rua Simeão Varela Camargo de Sá 3. 85040-080 Guarapuava, Paraná, Brasil. 3Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, Caixa Postal 28, 13001-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil. 4Instituto de Ciências Agrárias, Faculdades Integradas de Mineiros, Fimes, Caixa Postal 104, 75830-00, Mineiros, Goiás, Brasil.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 19 November 2010
  •  Published: 25 April 2011

Abstract

The purpose of this experiment was to study the phenological stages from pruning to harvest of the ‘Niagara Rosada’ grapevine grafted on different rootstocks grown on Cerrado conditions (Brazilian savanna) at the Goiás State, in the middle west of Brazil. The trial was carried out in Mineiros County, to evaluate phenological stages of ‘Niagara Rosada’ grapevines grafted on three rootstocks (‘Ripária do Traviú, ‘IAC-766 - Campinas’ and ‘IAC-572 - Jales’ and cultivated on climate and soil conditions of Cerrado (Brazilian savanna). The results showed that the cycle (from pruning to harvest) of ‘Niagara Rosada’ had differences on number of days according to the rootstock: 109 days on ‘Ripária do Traviú’, 112 days on ‘IAC-766’, and 113 on ‘IAC-572’, and the thermal summation requirements to complete the phenological cycle of ‘Niágara Rosada’ were 1,167.4, 1,197.9 and 1,207.4 degree-days, respectively. It can be concluded that climate and soil of Cerrado provided cycle reduction of ‘Niagara Rosada’.

 

Key words: Vitis vinifera, rootstock, phenologycal characterization, Brazilian savanna.