Can we control how plants produce their biomass?

• Grant number: 16/50189-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2017
• End date: August 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Botany - Pant Physiology
• Agreement: University of Melbourne
• Mobility Program: SPRINT - Projetos de pesquisa - Mobilidade
• Principal Investigator: Igor Cesarino
• Grantee: Igor Cesarino
• Principal researcher abroad: Steffan Persson
• Institution abroad: University of Melbourne, Australia
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 12/19561-0 - Regulation of plant growth by the Target of rapamycin (TOR) pathway, AP.BIOEN.JP

Abstract

Plants ability to grow tall and slender depends on how well they produce secondary cell wall structures. These structures are largely made of sugar-based polymers, and also constitute the bulk of a plant's biomass and are thus also essential for many industrial applications, including fuel, construction and biomaterials. We will investigate how a central carbon-coordinator, the TOR complex, regulates the carbon partitioning into secondary walls in Arabidopsis and the important C4 crop model plant Setaria viridis. The results will lay a foundation to an important research collaboration that include student exchange and that will strengthen the alignments between FAPESP and the University of Melbourne. (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)

SIMOES, MARCELLA SIQUEIRA; CARVALHO, GABRIEL GARON; FERREIRA, SAVIO SIQUEIRA; HERNANDES-LOPES, JOSE; DE SETTA, NATHALIA; CESARINO, IGOR. Genome-wide characterization of the laccase gene family in Setaria viridis reveals members potentially involved in lignification. PLANTA, v. 251, n. 2, JAN 9 2020. (15/02527-1, 16/06917-1, 16/50189-0)

SIMOES, MARCELLA SIQUEIRA; FERREIRA, SAVIO SIQUEIRA; GRANDIS, ADRIANA; RENCORET, JORGE; PERSSON, STAFFAN; FLOH, ENY IOCHEVET SEGAL; FERRAZ, ANDRE; DEL RIO, JOSE C.; BUCKERIDGE, MARCOS SILVEIRA; CESARINO, IGOR. Differentiation of Tracheary Elements in Sugarcane Suspension Cells Involves Changes in Secondary Wall Deposition and Extensive Transcriptional Reprogramming. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, v. 11, DEC 18 2020. (14/50884-5, 16/50189-0, 15/02527-1, 19/13936-0, 15/18361-5, 16/06917-1, 16/17541-2)

FERREIRA, SAVIO SIQUEIRA; SIMOES, MARCELLA SIQUEIRA; CARVALHO, GABRIEL GARON; ALVES DE LIMA, LEYDSON GABRIEL; DE ALMEIDA SVARTMAN, RAPHAEL MENDES; CESARINO, IGOR. The lignin toolbox of the model grass Setaria viridis. Plant Molecular Biology, v. 101, n. 3, p. 235-255, OCT 2019. (16/06917-1, 16/50189-0, 15/02527-1)

CESARINO, IGOR; DELLO IOIO, RAFFAELE; KIRSCHNER, GWENDOLYN K.; OGDEN, MICHAEL S.; PICARD, KELSEY L.; RAST-SOMSSICH, I, MADLEN; SOMSSICH, MARC. Plant science's next top models. ANNALS OF BOTANY, v. 126, n. 1, p. 1-23, JUN 29 2020. (16/50189-0, 15/02527-1)