Molecular and morphoanatomical phylogeny of the genus Acrocomia (Arecaceae): a taxonomic study of a group of palm trees with great socioeconomic and environmental importance

• Grant number: 17/20381-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: December 01, 2017
• End date: January 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Augusto Colombo
• Grantee: Suelen Alves Vianna
• Host Institution: Instituto Agronômico (IAC). Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios (APTA). Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento (São Paulo - Estado). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 14/23591-7 - Selection of donnor trees of macaúba aiming to biodiesel for forming garden seed and commercial seedlings production preserving genetic variability, AP.TEM

Abstract

The nature and number of characters used for the identification and systematization of plants have increased and changed greatly throughout the history of plant classification, especially with the advent of DNA discovery and the use of molecular techniques for their study. Analyzes based on molecular data, in increasing and rapid progress, associated with morphological data are excellent sources of information for evolutionary and phylogenetic reconstruction studies. The palm trees (Arecaceae) have the highest morphological diversity within monocotyledons, being represented by about 2,700 species distributed in more than 240 genera, constituting one of the most characteristic groups of tropical flora, with great economic, social and ecological importance. Thus, the present project proposes the execution of an in - depth study of the external morphology, leaf anatomy and, molecular, with use of chloroplastid, nuclear, and SNPs markers in the Acrocomia palms, a taxonomically unresolved genus distributed throughout Tropical and Subtropical Americas, widely used for oil production and with great potential for use in other segments, in order to reconstruct phylogenetic hypotheses that allows the interpretation of the evolution of characters important to its circumscription. The results to be obtained with the present proposal, which unites knowledge of different areas, will contribute to future studies including their use, conservation and, above all, their breeding, including the correct identification and characterization of the individuals used for the formation of the Acrocomia Germplasm Bank in current implantation in the Institution (FAPESP 14/23591-7). (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)

LUSTRI, ELIVELTON ALVES; SIQUEIRA, WALTER JOSE; DE AZEVEDO FILHO, JOAQUIM ADELINO; VIANNA, SUELEN ALVES; COLOMBO, CARLOS AUGUSTO. Estimates of genetic parameters for juvenile traits in macaw palm. Bragantia, v. 80, 2021. (14/23591-7, 17/20381-0)