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- Title
Forma e tamanho de sementes de duas variedades de abóboras durante a secagem.
- Authors
da COSTA JÚNIOR, José Roberto; Cabral de OLIVEIRA, Daniel Emanuel; Guimarães CARVALHO, José Mauro; Sousa BUENO, Sarah Gabrielle; FERREIRA, Valdenice Batista; ALVES, Estenio Moreira
- Abstract
The pumpkin culture is of great importance for food. In the mold of today's agriculture, the precision of equipment is essential for the success of post-harvest activities. The objective was to define the shape and size of two varieties of pumpkins in different water levels during drying. The experiment was developed at the Instituto Federal Goiano - Campus Iporá. The seeds were submitted to oven drying with forced air ventilation at 45 °C, until reaching a moisture content of 0.0731 for cv. Rajada and 0.0711 for AC 53 (db). Length, width, thickness, circularity, sphericity, volume, geometric diameter, surface area, projected area, surface-volume ratio and volumetric contraction index were evaluated. The reduction of the moisture content provides the reduction of the orthogonal axes, sphericity, volume, geometric diameter, surface area, projected area and volumetric contraction index, increase in the surface volume ratio during the drying process in pumpkin seeds. No equation fit the circularity data, with the mean value for AC 53 being 53.72% and for Rajada 60.24%. The equation that best represents the volumetric contraction of cv. Blast is the Polynomial equation and for AC 53, Bala & Woods.
- Publication
Nativa, 2021, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2318-7670
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31413/nativa.v9i1.10274