| Grant number: | 13/04819-4 |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants |
| Start date: | November 01, 2013 |
| End date: | October 31, 2018 |
| Field of knowledge: | Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Crop Science |
| Principal Investigator: | Alessandra Ferreira Ribas |
| Grantee: | Alessandra Ferreira Ribas |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias. Universidade do Oeste Paulista (UNOESTE). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil |
| Associated researchers: | Gustavo Maia Souza ; Luiz Gonzaga Esteves Vieira ; Nelson Barbosa Machado Neto |
| Associated scholarship(s): | 16/06874-0 - AIPC cassette:ipt construction and establishment of co-bombardment conditions, BP.IC |
Abstract
In Brazil, raising cattle for meat and milk production is done in approximately 172 million hectares, in which grasses from the genus Urochloa represent the major cultivated species. In São Paulo, the area occupied with pastures is 39% from total and the genus Urochloa represents 89%, being the species U. brizantha the most used. Despite of their high biomass yield in the tropics, species from Urochloa genus are subjected to environmental stresses. Hence, the search of plants that can growth in sub-optimal conditions is crucial for maintaining the sustainability in these production systems. U. brizantha cultivars are clones due to their apomitic reproduction system, and therefore can be considered monocultures that implies into great economic and environmental risk. As a result, for reaching their production and growth potentials it is necessary to have genotypes with increased tolerance to adverse factors such water deficit and cold stress. Genetic modified plants expressing genes that codes for the key enzyme in the biosynthesis of proline (1-pirrolina-5-carboxilato sintetase - P5CS) or for the first enzyme involved in the synthesis of the growth regulator citokinin (isopenteniltransferase - ipt) have been very effective in increasing the tolerance to abiotic stress. Thus, this study aims to transform U. brizantha with the P5CS and ipt genes under the control of stress inducible promoters AIPC (ABA inducible promoter complex) and COR15 (cold-related promoter), and evaluating the transformed plants for tolerance to abiotic stress. (AU)
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