The present work aimed to evaluate the incidence of rust and coffee plant cercosporiose in different systems of agroforest cultivation and in the full sunshine through the progress curve of those diseases. The completely randomized design with three treatments and seven replicates was utilized. The treatments were made up of coffee plants mixed with ingazeiro, coffee plants mixed with grevílea and coffee plants cultivated conventionally in the full sunshine. The evaluations were performed monthly during the period of April 2001 to March 2003. The calculation of the area bellow the disease progress curve (ABDPC), which was submitted to the variance analysis. For the incidence of the coffee plant rust, the coffee plant x ingazeiro mixing presented the highest indices of the disease, the treatments coffee plant x grevílea mixing and coffee plant in the full sunshine did no differ from each other and presented the smallest indices of the disease. Decrease in the direct solar light and higher humidity may have supported rust in the coffee plant x ingazeiro system. For the incidence of cercosporiose, the coffee plants in the full sunshine obtained higher values of incidence of the disease followed by coffee plants x grevílea and lowest rates of the disease were found in the coffee plant x ingazeiro mixings. The incidence of direct solar radiation may have supported the highest incidence of cercosporiose on the coffee plants in the full sunshine.
Coffee plants diseases; agroforestry systems
