{"id":250520,"date":"2017-12-19T17:53:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=250520\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T17:53:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:53:30","slug":"a-passion-fruit-suited-for-growing-in-the-caatinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/a-passion-fruit-suited-for-growing-in-the-caatinga\/","title":{"rendered":"A passion fruit suited for growing in the Caatinga"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_250521\" style=\"max-width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/012-017_notas_257-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-250521\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/012-017_notas_257-3-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Fernanda Birolo \/ Embrapa<\/span><\/a> The BRS Sert\u00e3o variety is the product of genetic improvement of passion fruit<span class=\"media-credits\">Fernanda Birolo \/ Embrapa<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A variety of passion fruit developed for commercial planting was introduced by Embrapa in Petrolina, state of Pernambuco, in June 2017.\u00a0 Known as BRS Sert\u00e3o Forte, the variety was adapted for semi-arid climates that receive little rainfall. The new cultivar is the product of research that led to the genetic improvement of a wild species of the plant known as <em>maracuj\u00e1-do-mato<\/em> or Caatinga passion fruit (<em>Passiflora<\/em> <em>cincinnata)<\/em>, which occurs naturally in arid regions of the Brazilian Northeast but has low yield. BRS Sert\u00e3o Forte retains the ability to survive in environments with little water\u2014a special feature of the <em>maracuj\u00e1-do-mato<\/em>\u2014yet it produces larger fruit and higher yield per planted area. It also offers certain advantages over the purple granadilla (<em>Passiflora<\/em> <em>edulis)<\/em>, the species most frequently planted in Brazil. The variety developed from the <em>maracuj\u00e1-do-mato<\/em> has a longer productive life and shows good resistance to fusarium, a fungal disease that often attacks commercial passion fruit crops. \u201cBRS Sert\u00e3o Forte can be grown using low-cost technology,\u201d explains agronomist Francisco Pinheiro de Ara\u00fajo of Embrapa Semi-Arid, who was responsible for developing the cultivar, in a press release announcing the variety. \u201cIt is very well suited for family farming, and especially for organic production.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A passion fruit suited for growing in the Caatinga","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[251],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-250520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250520"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=250520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}