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Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA). Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduation at Agronomia from Universidade de Brasília (1997), master's at Genetics from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1999) and doctorate at Agronomia Genética e Melhoramento de Plantas from Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (2004). Has experience in Agronomy, focusing on Vegetable Improvement, acting on the following subjects: arachis, pré-melhoramento, recursos genéticos, amendoim and caracterização fitopatológica. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The ongoing Fapesp Regular Project (grant number 2018/07624-3) was approved in August 2018 and focuses on: 1) inducing polyploidization of two diploid Paspalum species, 2) determining the cytogenetic and reproductive behaviors of all polyploids recovered and 3) identifying molecular markers linked to apomixis in Paspalum. Significant progress has been made to date, including: 1) confirmat…
The genus Paspalum is native to America and has approximately 400 species distributed into informal groups. One of these groups is Plicatula, in which there are many species with potential forage value. Many cultivars of Plicatula species have been released for forage purposes worldwide; however, all of them were based on ecotype selection. In order to develop breeding programs within Pli…
The visit of Dr. Acuña will begin on February 21st 2016 and will finish on February 27th 2016. Researches related to breeding of Paspalum species that are made in Embrapa Southeast Livestock will be presented to the visitor. The researcher will make presentations at Embrapa and UFSCAR on the Paspalum breeding program at Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Dr. Acuña will visit the experimen…
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Almost 80% of Brazilian pastures are formed with exotic forage species, especially Brachiaria. The use of native species of Paspalum can diversify the supply of forage crops in Brazil and neighboring countries. As lawn, P. notatum is already widely grown. Most species of the informal group Plicatula is tetraploid and apomictic. The identification of diploid and sexual cytotypes and obtain…
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