Biosafety evaluation of genetic modified cultivars of sugarcane: genetic flow and nutritional composition studies of commercial hybrids

• Grant number: 13/50195-2
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research Partnership for Technological Innovation - PITE
• Start date: August 01, 2015
• End date: July 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Genetics - Plant Genetics
• Principal Investigator: Giancarlo Conde Xavier Oliveira
• Grantee: Giancarlo Conde Xavier Oliveira
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Company: Associação das Empresas de Biotecnologia na Agricultura e Agroindústria (AgroBio)
• City: Piracicaba
• Pesquisadores principais: Maria Teresa Mendes Ribeiro Borges ; Monalisa Sampaio Carneiro

Abstract

This project aims at obtaining Information to advise this risk evaluation process of forthcoming genetically modified sugarcane cultivars in areas where there is no available data on the current scientific literature, viz. (a) Evaluation of the potential gene flow among commercial hybrids and native Saccharum species. In order to achieve this purpose, information about the sexual reproduction of the native Saccharum species will be intensively gathered through observation and experiments. These data will then be used to plan artificial hybridization experiments among these species and sugarcane commercial hybrids; (b) Evaluation of nutritional composition and its variation range in the commercial hybrids at the main productive regions in Brazil. The information gathered will be publicly available on a database that may be used for further substantial equivalence studies for the forthcoming genetic modified sugarcane cultivars. (AU)

Scientific publications

(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)

BRESSAN, EDUARDO ANDRADE; SANTOS DE CARVALHO, IGOR ARAUJO; MENDES RIBEIRO BORGES, MARIA TERESA; CARNEIRO, MONALISA SAMPAIO; DA SILVA, EDSON FERREIRA; GAZAFFI, RODRIGO; SHIRASUNA, REGINA TOMOKO; ABREU, VINICIUS; POPIN, V, RAFAEL; FIGUEIRA, ANTONIO; et al. Assessment of Gene Flow to Wild Relatives and Nutritional Composition of Sugarcane in Brazil. FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, v. 8, JUN 19 2020. (13/50195-2)

CARNEIRO, MONALISA S.; GAZAFFI, RODRIGO; PISTARINI, NARA F.; LORENCETTI, RODOLPHO T. G.; BRESSAN, EDUARDO A.; DA SILVA, EDSON F.; OLIVEIRA, GIANCARLO C. X.; BORGES, MARIA TERESA M. R.. Nutritional composition of commercial sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) genotypes evaluated over regrowth cycles in different environments in Brazil. FIELD CROPS RESEARCH, v. 288, p. 10-pg., 2022-11-01. (13/50195-2)