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A quinquennium of coexistence in portugal

Portugal is one of the few European Union countries that experience the “coexistence” of a coexistence legal framework with a regular coexistence practice. Since 2005, Bt maize crops have been grown in different regions—either in small or large farms—in compliance with a law that envisages coexistence procedures for either individual farmers or groups of farmers that agree to establish the so called “production...

Lycopene content and antioxidant capacity of portuguese watermelon fruits

Red flesh watermelon is one of the main food sources with lycopene as the most abundant carotenoid and has been associated with a lowered risk of prostate cancer. In order to assess health benefits of Portuguese watermelon, five acessions from the Portuguese Bank of Germplasm were were chosen for antioxidant quantification and total solids content. Two of the acessions were further characterized for lycopene co...

Avaliação de populações locais de abóbora menina (Cucurbita maxima Duch. ex Lam)

Projecto Agro nº 58 - Recursos genéticos de Cucurbitáceas - Abóboras e Melancias ; A cultura da abóbora tem importância significativa na dieta alimentar portuguesa, tendo o seu consumo tendência para aumentar, continuando a ter procura as espécies normalmente cultivadas entre nós, nomeadamente a abóbora menina (Cucurbita maxima Duch. Ex Lam), registando-se uma tendência cada vez maior para a valorização das po...

Recursos genéticos de cucurbitáceas: abóboras e melancia

Characterisation of germoplasm of annual medics (Medicago polymorpha L.) in the...

This work corresponds to the first stage of a project whose aim is the further selection of cultivars of annual medics for the limestone massif of Central Portugal, and it reports on the characterisation and preliminary evaluation of 45 populations of annual medics (Medicago polymorph L.) collected in the “Região Agrária do Ribatejo e Oeste”. Thirty six traits, decided after the descriptors for annual medics of...