Utilização de características ópticas para estimar o teor de óleo e volume do mesocarpo nos frutos de macaúba

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Matsimbe, Sofrimento Fenias Savanto
• Orientador(a): Motoike, Sérgio Yoshimitsu
• Banca de defesa: Kuki, Kacilda Naomi
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Fitotecnia
• Departamento: Plantas daninhas, Alelopatia, Herbicidas e Resíduos; Fisiologia de culturas; Manejo pós-colheita de
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Acrocomia aculeata; Quantificação do óleo; Calibração e validação VIS-NIR; biometria dos frutos
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Acrocomia aculeata; Calibration and validation VIS-NIR; Fruit biometrics; Imaging processing
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::FITOTECNIA
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4571

The macaúba [Acrocomia aculeata (Jacq.) Lodd. Ex Mart.] is a rustic oilseed, with high productivity and multiple potential, which is strongly demanded in the food, cosmetic, and especially the energy industries, due of its suitability for biodiesel production. However, despite the enormous potential, the exploitation of macaw palm still boils down to foraging. Studies aiming at their sustainable use and the resulting domestication of the species are ignorant, because of the lack of practical and efficient methods to support breeding programs on genotypes selections. The main objective of this study was to develop and propose methods to estimate the oil content and volume of the mesocarp in macaw palm fruit using optical characteristics. For methodologies evaluation two assays were carried out. In the first, 420 samples were used to develop calibration model to predict oil content of mesocarp using visible and near infrared spectrometry. The soxhlet method was used as reference. In the second, consisted of 20 samples, were developed imaging algorithms to estimate the mesocarp volume, and as a reference was used water displacement method. In the first assay the developed model showed consistent results in the calibration and validation sets, and it s potentially feasible for preliminary selections and characterization of genotypes intended macaw palm improvement. In the second, were developed two algorithms, one considering each fruit as sphere and another one using ellipsoid approximation. The results show that the algorithms can be used in the pre and post-harvest sector and to make genotypes selection in macaw palm breeding programs.