Toxicity and genotoxicity evaluation of percolated from sugarcane vinasse in tilapia

• Grant number: 15/16138-7
• 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: Mônica Cyntia Ferreira Santos
• 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 bodies 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 bodies, either by sugarcane vinasse leaching and/or percolation. Since several developed studies demonstrated the toxicity of vinasse on aquatic organisms, it is part of the objectives of the Thematic Project investigate the toxic potential of vinasse after percolation tests; in this sense, this project aims to investigate the toxicity and genotoxicity of sugarcane vinasse leachate in peripheral blood of tilapia.

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)

SANTOS, M. C. F.; ANSOAR-RODRIGUES, Y.; MOREIRA-DE-SOUSA, C.; SOUZA, R. B.; MARCATO, A. C. C.; CORREIA, J. E.; VASQUES, L. I.; COELHO, M. P. M.; SOUSA, C. P.; RODRIGUES, V. C.; et al. Evaluation of the toxicity and genotoxicity of percolated from sugarcane vinasse in Oreochromis niloticus (PISCES) by micronucleus test. Toxicology Letters, v. 259, p. 1-pg., 2016-10-01. (15/16138-7, 12/50197-2)