Establishment of indexation methods of viruses and of clonal cleaning via micro-grafting in the Biotechnology Laboratory of the Estação de Limeira

• Grant number: 92/00543-6
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: October 01, 1992
• End date: September 30, 1994
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Physiology
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Antonio Machado
• Grantee: Marcos Antonio Machado
• Host Institution: Instituto Agronômico (IAC). Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios (APTA). Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento (São Paulo - Estado). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant(s): 95/04334-0 - Indexing of virus and viroids and production of disease-free plants by shoot-tip grafting in sao paulo/brazil., AR.EXT

Abstract

The need to control and eliminate the principal viruses that attack citrics in the state of São Paulo, has meant that new diagnostic methods, associated with traditional biological indexing, have been implemented. Associated with the identification of a virus in a clone of interest, this offers the possibility of its elimination through the process of micro-grafting. With the aim in this way of implanting methods of biological, immunological and molecular indexing for Tristeza, Sorosis, Xyloporosis and Exocortis, as well as the cleaning of clones via micro-grafting, the Biotechnology Laboratory of the Estação de Limeira is initiating its activities. (AU)