The practice of green manuring promotes benefits to production systems of hortals. One experiment was carried out at experimental farm of Departament of plant Sciences, Federal Rural University of the Semi-Arid (UFERSA), Mossoró-RN, in the period from June to October 2009, with the aim of evaluating the agronomic performance of coriander under different amounts and decomposition times of and scarlet starglory incorporated into the soil. The experimental design was a randomized complete block with treatments arranged in a 4x4, with three replications, and 144 plants per plot, where the first factor consisted of the amounts of scarlet starglory (5.4, 8.8, 12.2 and 15.6Mg ha-1 dry matter), the second one by the times of soil incorporation (0, 10, 20, and 30 days before sowing - DAS). The cultivar planted of cilandro was Verdão. The characteristics evaluated in the cilandro were: plant height and number of stalks per plant, fresh mass and dry matter mass of shoots. Was significant interaction between for number stalks per plant. The best agronomic performance for cilantro was obtained in the dose of 15.6Mg ha-1 of scarlet starglory incorporated into the soil at time 30 days.
Coriandum sativum L.; Merremia aegyptia L.; green manuring
