Toxicity assessment of percolated vinasse in tilapia gills

• Grant number: 15/15623-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2015
• End date: August 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Applied Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Carmem Silvia Fontanetti Christofoletti
• Grantee: Louise Idalgo Vasques
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 12/50197-2 - Action of products used in cultivation of sugar cane on non-target organisms, AP.BIOEN.TEM

Abstract

The inappropriate and indiscriminate disposal of sugarcane vinasse in soil and water resources received much attention in recent decades because of environmental problems that this practice causes. Disposal in waters is prohibited for several years, but the indiscriminate use of soils can lead to contamination of water, either by leaching and / or percolation. Different studies demonstrated the toxicity of vinasse on aquatic organisms. The one of objective of the Thematic Project investigate the toxic potential of vinasse after percolation tests; in this sense, this project aims to investigate the toxicity of the leachate of vinasse sugarcane in gills of tilapia, using histopathological analysis.

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)

MANCINI COELHO, MARIA PAULA; CORREIA, JORGE EVANGELISTA; VASQUES, LOUISE IDALGO; DE CASTRO MARCATO, ANA CLAUDIA; GUEDES, THAYS DE ANDRADE; SOTO, MIGUEL ALFARO; BASSO, JULIANA BROGGIO; KIANG, CHANG; FONTANETTI, CARMEM SILVIA. Toxicity evaluation of leached of sugarcane vinasse: Histopathology and immunostaining of cellular stress protein. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY, v. 165, p. 367-375, DEC 15 2018. (15/15624-5, 15/15623-9)