O cultivo da soja - Glycine max (Roundup Ready® - RR) tem aumentado, e pouco tem sido relatada a influência do glyphosate sobre o estado nutricional das plantas. O objetivo deste trabalho foi comparar o acúmulo de nutrientes em diferentes estádios fenológicos entre os cultivares BRS 184 (convencional) e BRS 243 RR (transgênico), com mesmo ciclo vegetativo e reprodutivo, sob diferentes sistemas de manejo de plantas daninhas (capina e herbicida). O acúmulo de nutrientes e matéria seca na soja convencional foi superior ao da soja RR tratada com glyphosate, indicando que um nível maior de nutrientes pode ser requerido pelos cultivares RR para atingir a eficiência fisiológica e, provavelmente, uma nova recomendação de adubação para as culturas RR deve ser levada em consideração devido à redução da eficiência nutricional imposta pelo glyphosate.

The cultivation of soybean-Glycine max (Roundup Ready® - RR) has increased and little has been reported on the influence of glyphosate on the nutritional status of the plants. The aim of this work was to compare nutrient accumulation at different phenological stages between the cultivars BRS 184 (conventional) and BRS 243 RR (transgenic), with the same crop cycle, under different weed management systems (hand weed and herbicide). Nutrient accumulation and dry matter in conventional soybean was superior to that in the glyphosate-treated RR soybean, indicating that a higher level of nutrients might be required for the RR cultivars to achieve physiological efficiency and a new fertilizer recommendation for RR crops may be considered, due to the reduced nutritional efficiency imposed by glyphosate.

The aim of this study was to determine if bone marrow mononuclear cell (BMMC) transplantation is safe for moderate to severe idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC). Clinical trials have shown that this procedure is safe and effective for ischemic patients, but little information is available regarding non-ischemic patients. Twenty-four patients with IDC, optimized therapy, age 46 ± 11.6 years, 17 males, NYHA classes II-IV, and left ventricular ejection fraction <35% were enrolled in the study. Clinical evaluation at baseline and 6 months after stem cell therapy to assess heart function included echocardiogram, magnetic resonance imaging, cardiopulmonary test, Minnesota Quality of Life Questionnaire, and NYHA classification. After cell transplantation 1 patient showed a transient increase in enzyme levels and 2 patients presented arrhythmias that were reversed within 72 h. Four patients died during follow-up, between 6 and 12 weeks after therapy. Clinical evaluation showed improvement in most patients as reflected by statistically significant decreases in Minnesota Quality of Life Questionnaire (63 ± 17.9 baseline vs 28.8 ± 16.75 at 6 months) and in class III-IV NYHA patients (18/24 baseline vs 2/20 at 6 months). Cardiopulmonary exercise tests demonstrated increased peak oxygen consumption (12.2 ± 2.4 at baseline vs 15.8 ± 7.1 mL·kg-1·min-1 at 6 months) and walked distance (377.2 ± 85.4 vs 444.1 ± 77.9 m at 6 months) in the 6-min walk test, which was not accompanied by increased left ventricular ejection fraction. Our findings indicate that BMMC therapy in IDC patients with severe ventricular dysfunction is feasible and that larger, randomized and placebo-controlled trials are warranted.

Com o objetivo de avaliar a dessorção de fósforo por silício nas camadas superficiais de um Latossolo Vermelho-Escuro sob cerrado e de um Cambissolo sob campo cerrado, da zona fisiográfica Campos das Vertentes (MG), foram realizados experimentos em casa de vegetação do Departamento de Ciência do Solo da Universidade Federal de Lavras (MG), no período de agosto de 1997 a maio de 1998. Cada solo foi submetido a três incubações seqüenciais: (a) CaCO3 + MgCO3, para manter o pH em torno de 6,0; (b) fertilização básica, incluindo o fósforo em dose única, calculada para manter 0,2 mg L-1 de P em solução; (c) seis doses de silício (CaSiO3), definidas com base na dose de fósforo. Plantas de eucalyptus grandis foram cultivadas por 120 dias em vasos com capacidade para 3 dm³ de solo. A produção de matéria seca e o teor de P na matéria seca foram avaliados aos 60, 90 e 120 dias do transplantio das mudas para os vasos. Ajustaram-se superfícies de resposta dessas variáveis às doses de Si e às épocas. O P dessorvido contribuiu com 15,25% do conteúdo do nutriente na matéria seca das plantas cultivadas no Cambissolo (maior teor de caulinita).

With the objective to evaluate the desorption of phosphorus by silicon in surface layers of a Dark-Red Latosol (Oxisol) under cerrado vegetation and Cambisol (Inceptisol), under open cerrado vegetation at Campos das Vertentes physiographical region State Minas Gerais, experiments were carried out under greenhouse conditions at the Soil Science Department of the Federal University of Lavras, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, from August 1997 to May 1998. Each soil was submitted to three sequential incubations: (a) CaCO3 + MgCO3 to maintain the pH around 6.0; (b) basic fertilization, including phosphorus in one dose calculated to maintain 0.2 mg L-1 of P in soil solution; and (c) six silicon (CaSiO3) doses defined with basis on phosphorus dose. Seedlings of Eucalyptus grandis were cultivated during 120 days in pots with 3 dm³ of soil. Dry matter production and dry matter P content were evaluated at 60, 90 and 120 days after seedling transplanting to the pots. Response surfaces of these variables were adjusted as a function of Si doses and times. The desorbed P contributed with 15.25% of the content of this nutrient in dry matter of plants cultivated in the Cambisol (higher content of kaolinite).