CV Lattes
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genética (CBMEG) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Biologist (UFAM - 2009), M.Sc. in Genetics, Conservation and Evolutionary Biology (INPA - 2011), Ph.D. in Genetics and Plant Breeding (ESALQ/USP - 2015). Current position: Professor in the Department of Genetics of the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo. Interested in population genetics and genomics of native plant species, Conservation genetics, Biometry of genetic markers, Bioinformatics, Domestication and evolution of Amazonian crops. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is the staple food crop that originated in Amazonia that reached the biggest importance in the world, and is currently the eight most cultivated crop. Cultivated manioc (ssp. esculenta) was domesticated from M. esculenta ssp. flabellifolia, and currently two major groups of varieties (sweet and bitter manioc) are cultivated. The objective of this proposal…
Manioc (Manihot esculenta ssp. esculenta Crantz) was domesticated in the southwestern Amazon basin and currently is the main source of calories for more than 800 million people in the world. After its initial domestication, divergent selective pressures gave rise to two major groups of varieties (sweet and bitter manioc), which differ in their contents of toxic compounds. Although there i…
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