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CIENCIA E AGROTECNOLOGIA
Volume 32, Issue 6, Pages 1781-1786Publisher
UNIV FEDERAL LAVRAS-UFLA
DOI: 10.1590/S1413-70542008000600016
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Degree-days; phenology; Coffea arabica; evapotranspiration
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Base temperature and heat requirement, using degree-days were evaluated for coffee cv. Mundo Novo. The sum of reference (ETo) and actual (ETr) evapotranspiration were also determined for the flowering-harvest phonological stage, using coffee phonological data for the growing season from 1971 to 2004. A correction factor was proposed for the degree-days sum related to available water on the first eighty days during the beginning of flowering. The obtained values of base temperature and degree-days requirements were, respectively, 10.2 degrees C and 2887 degree-days and 10.5 degrees C and 2761 degree-days when evaluated with and without adjustement for water deficit. The mean value for ETo sum was 761 mm, and for ETr, 689 mm. When considered the sum of ETr during the development of the berries (first 80 days after flowering) was considered the mean values were 721 mm. The correction factor for water deficit improved the determination of base temperature and heat sum for the flowering-harvest stage for Mundo Novo coffee plants.
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