Agronomía Colombiana
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La revista Agronomía Colombiana ha cumplido con lasexigencias anunciadas por Colciencias que se daráninicio a partir del 2014 y en la cual se contempla que hastaun 30% de los autores pueden tener un vínculo a la ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Characterization and typification of citrus production systems in the department of meta
Agriculture is a co-evolutionary process between society and nature. Agroecology is an environmental science which focuses on ecosystem-culture and society-nature interactive systems, the effect of human intervention in ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
The effect of high iron doses (fe2+) on the growth of broccoli plants (brassica oleracea var. italica)
Tests were carried out under greenhouse conditions in Tunja (Colombia) in order to evaluate the effect of Fe2+ toxicity on the growth of broccoli plants. ‘Legacy’ hybrid Brassica oleracea var. Italica plantlets were grown ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Ethylene and 1-mcp affect the postharvest behavior of yellow pitahaya fruits (selenicereus megalanthus haw.)
The pitahaya or dragon fruit is one of the most representative exotic fruits that Colombia has, with an important, growing international market, but the cultivation and postharvest of this fruit lack sufficient technological ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Nutrient uptake of the criolla potato (solanum phureja var. galeras) for the determination of critical nutritional levels
Based on the nutrient uptake of the criolla potato (Solanum phureja var. Galeras), the critical nutritional levels were determined on a farm in the Carrizal district of the municipality of Granada (Cundinamarca). Five ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Temperature effect on rose downy mildew development under environmental controlled conditions
The rose downy mildew disease, caused by Peronospora sparsa Berkeley, is one of the most important that affect rose crops in Colombia. To manage this disease, flower growers must deal with high-costs due to the excessive ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Tree-ring growth and hydro-climatic variability in temperate dendrochronologies of northern mexico
This report addresses the following questions: a) is the diameter growth described by the standard ring width anomaly (SRWA) of Psudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco trees related to precipitation (P), pan evaporation (E), ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Critical reflections on the new rurality and the rural territorial development approaches in latin america
This paper presents a critical approach to the New Rurality and the Rural Territorial Development (RTD) perspectives, which nowadays are hegemonic for governmental organizations and Latin American academies. RTD’s core ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
A checklist of the ants (hymenoptera: formicidae) of the department of antioquia, colombia and new records for the country
Antioquia is a state (department) of Colombia, located in thenorthwestern Andes of South America. Geologically, the northwesternregion of the Western Range in Antioquia and Chocóincludes the fault resulting from the ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Sorption isotherms for oat flakes (avena sativa)
Moisture sorption isotherms of oat flakes were determined at temperatures of 5, 25 and 37ºC, using a gravimetric technique in an aw range of between 0.107 and 0.855. These curves were modeled using six equations commonly ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Comparison of dna extraction methods for detection of citrus huanglongbing in colombia
Four DNA citrus plant tissue extraction protocols and three methods of DNA extraction from vector psyllid Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) were compared as part of the validation process and standardization ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Proposal for a strategic management plan for experimental agricultural and academic farm “el cairo” of arauca
This paper presents a design for a strategic management plan for the Experimental Agricultural and Academic Farm: El Cairo of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Orinoquia branch. A non-experimental methodological design ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Reappraising the multiple functions of traditional agriculture within the context of building rural development investigative skills
The productivist and reductionist vision of industrial agriculture in the twentieth century prevented the analysis of the other multiple functions of traditional agriculture, such as those corresponding to the ecological ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Determination of an efficient irrigation schedule for the cultivation of rose cv. freedom under greenhouse conditions in colombia
An experiment on rose (Rosa sp.) cv. Freedom was performed in a greenhouse on the Bogota Plateau, Colombia, to identify an efficient irrigation regime for this crop. The tested treatments were based on three irrigation ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
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Agriculture is an essential human activity with a social function that shapes civilization; and is vital to the survival and well-being of humanity. This idea forms the cornerstone for the Facultad de Agronomía with its ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Physiological and morphological characterization of american oil palms (elaeis oleifera hbk cortes) and their hybrids (elaeis oleifera × elaeis guineensis) on the indupalma plantation
The morphological and photosynthetic activity were characterizedin six genotypes of American oil palm (E. oleifera) ofdifferent origins and three of their OxG hybrids (E. oleifera × E.guineensis) with a completely randomized ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Evaluation of various conventional methods for sampling weeds in potato and spinach crops
This study aimed to evaluate (at an exploratory level), some of the different conventional sampling designs in a section of a potato crop and in a commercial crop of spinach. Weeds were sampled in a 16 x 48 m section of a ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Considerations on the research and dissemination of agricultural knowledge by the facultad de agronomía
In order to mark the 50-year-history of the Facultad de Agronomía of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, this article reviews the beginning of agronomy in Colombia, the creation of the Facultad de Agronomía, the development ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Near-infrared (nir) diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for the prediction of carbon and nitrogen in an oxisol
The characterization of soil properties through laboratory analysis is an essential part of the diagnosis of the potential use of lands and their fertility. Conventional chemical analyzes are expensive and time consuming, ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana. -
Variation in parameters related to growth in six genotypes of determinate shrub and indeterminate prostrated beans (phaseolus vulgaris l.)
A group of six common bean accessions of the Mesoamericanoand Andino genetic groups of the Colombia national germplasmbank at the Corporación Colombiana de InvestigaciónAgropecuaria (Corpoica) was evaluated using 41 ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Agronomía Colombiana.