Genetic studies of the Sporosorium scitamineum, the causal agent of sugarcane smut

• Grant number: 10/05591-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2010
• End date: January 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Genetics - Molecular Genetics and Genetics of Microorganisms
• Principal Investigator: Claudia Barros Monteiro Vitorello
• Grantee: Claudia Barros Monteiro Vitorello
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Monalisa Sampaio Carneiro ; Silvana Aparecida Creste Dias de Souza

Abstract

Sugar cane cultivated in Brazil has been receiving significant attention due to the increasing use of renewable sources of fuels such as ethanol. Therefore, aspects related to biomass production are relevant to allow advances in bioenergy research. Among sugarcane production limiting factors are the severity of some diseases which usually requires resistance of cultivated varieties or a quick exchange of susceptible cultivars before making ratoon crops unprofitable. Sugarcane producers in Brazil have reported 40 out of the 177 diseases provoked by fungi, bacteria, virus and mycoplasma detected around the world. The four most important are: smut, ratton stunting disease, mosaic and leaf scald. This project is concerned with smut caused by Sporosorium scitamineum. The objectives are to access genetic diversity among isolated fungus of infected plants located in different regions of Brazil developing a telomeric fingerprinting tool and to perform a characterization of subtelomeric regions regarding gene content. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

TANIGUTI, LUCAS M.; SCHAKER, PATRICIA D. C.; BENEVENUTO, JULIANA; PETERS, LEILA P.; CARVALHO, GISELLE; PALHARES, ALESSANDRA; QUECINE, MARIA C.; NUNES, FILIPE R. S.; KMIT, MARIA C. P.; WAI, ALVAN; et al. Complete Genome Sequence of Sporisorium scitamineum and Biotrophic Interaction Transcriptome with Sugarcane. PLoS One, v. 10, n. 6, JUN 12 2015. (10/05591-9, 08/52074-0, 12/09524-0, 13/15014-7, 14/21802-0, 13/25599-2)

BENEVENUTO, JULIANA; LONGATTO, DANIEL P.; REIS, GISLAINE V.; MIELNICHUK, NATALIA; PALHARES, ALESSANDRA C.; CARVALHO, GISELLE; SAITO, SUZANE; QUECINE, MARIA C.; SANGUINO, ALVARO; VIEIRA, MARIA LUCIA C.; et al. Molecular variability and genetic relationship among Brazilian strains of the sugarcane smut fungus. FEMS Microbiology Letters, v. 363, n. 24, DEC 2016. (10/05591-9, 14/21802-0)

SCHAKER, PATRICIA D. C.; PALHARES, ALESSANDRA C.; TANIGUTI, LUCAS M.; PETERS, LEILA P.; CRESTE, SILVANA; AITKEN, KAREN S.; VAN SLUYS, MARIE-ANNE; KITAJIMA, JOAO P.; VIEIRA, MARIA L. C.; MONTEIRO-VITORELLO, CLAUDIA B.. RNAseq Transcriptional Profiling following Whip Development in Sugarcane Smut Disease. PLoS One, v. 11, n. 9, SEP 1 2016. (10/05591-9, 15/07112-4, 12/09524-0, 13/25599-2)

DE SETTA, NATHALIA; MONTEIRO-VITORELLO, CLAUDIA BARROS; METCALFE, CUSHLA JANE; QUEIROGA CRUZ, GUILHERME MARCELO; DEL BEM, LUIZ EDUARDO; VICENTINI, RENATO; SILVEIRA NOGUEIRA, FABIO TEBALDI; CAMPOS, ROBERTA ALVARES; NUNES, SIDENY LIMA; GASPERAZZO TURRINI, PAULA CRISTINA; et al. Building the sugarcane genome for biotechnology and identifying evolutionary trends. BMC Genomics, v. 15, JUN 30 2014. (10/05591-9, 08/54201-9, 08/52074-0, 08/58031-0, 08/52197-4, 08/52146-0)