Incidencia del musgo (Rigodium implexum) en la baja producción del cultivo de cacao (Theobroma cacao L.).

Mosses, like most bryophytes, are plants mainly of humid places, although there are groups that have adapted to conditions with water deficit for prolonged periods. They are all foliose and their vegetative body grows from a single apical cell. They have leaves, generally arranged radially on the stem, which are generally entire; The stems can be erect, prostrate, creeping or pendulous. This moss has the peculiarity of not being fixed to the ground, but is attached to the trunk and thick cocoa branches as a parasite, it is capable of surviving by hygroscopicity or transmission of water by contact from the ground, as well as due to the humidity from rain. Furthermore, mosses are generally found in adult forests, normally in humid areas, with protection from more or less closed trees and bushes. In open sectors it is not able to survive. This study serves to inform each cocoa producer of the consequence of having the branches of the cocoa crop covered by this moss. Since the farms are located in humid areas and are in contact with raindrops, they will have an impact on the loss of the fertile layer of the branches if good maintenance is not carried out. The objective of this research is to characterize the incidence of moss (Rigodium implexum) in the low production of cocoa crops (Theobroma cacao), and at the same time describe the damage of moss (Rigodium implexum) in the cocoa crop and detail the methods of moss control in cocoa cultivation.

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Santana Ube, Tiffany Mayerly (author)
• التنسيق: bachelorThesis
• منشور في: 2024
• الموضوعات: Cacao; Musgo; Producción; Zonas húmedas
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://dspace.utb.edu.ec/handle/49000/16163