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| Author(s): |
Raul Santin Almeida
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2003-01-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Antonio Vargas de Oliveira Figueira;
Ricardo Ferraz de Oliveira;
Eugenio Cesar Ulian
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| Advisor: | Antonio Vargas de Oliveira Figueira |
| Abstract | |
Brazil is rsponsible for 25% of the world production of sugarcane (Saccharum spp.), and the economic importance of this crop is related to its increasing use as energy source and sugar. Traditional genetic breeding programs are hamperd by the genomic complexity, derived from its multi-specific origing adn polyploidy. The availability of inorganic phosphorous (Pi) in agri-ecosystems is one of the largest limiation for plant growth and yield, because Pi uptake by the roots depends on the variation of the concentration of labile phosphorous in the soil and against an eletric and concentration gradient. For intensive agriculture, inorganic and organic sources of phosphorous are largely used, but part of this Pi is not recoverd from the soil, because around 80% becomes adsorbed or complexed to the organic fraction, together with heavy metals residues (ex: Zn, Cd, Ni or Cu). Genes of low affinity phosphate transporters are constitutively expressed and work under higher concentrations of available Pi. Sequences of high affinity phosphate transporters already described (PHO84 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae; PHO-5 of Neurospora crassa; GvPT of Glomus versiforme; AtPT1 and AtPT2 of Arabidopsis thaliana; LePT1 and LePT2 of Lycopersicum esculentum; StPT1 and StPT2 of Solanum tuberosum) encoded a Pi transporter protein with 12 conserve d transmembrane domains. Their expression in plants occur preferntially ion roots under phosphorous deficiency. Using the sequences of these high affinity phosphate transporter genes, ESTs sequences with high identity were identified in the sugarcane genome project, especially the cluster SCEQRT1028B07.g, with a complete cDNA, which deducted sequence coded for a protein with 541 amino acids, and 12 transmembrane domais, typical of these transporters. (AU) | |