Moacir Rossi Forim

• Abstract

  Despite significant advances in the production processes and agricultural controls, insects are still the main competitors of humans for food. As a result of breeding programs for productivity gains, among other characteristics, most agricultural cultivars currently available do not present efficient resistance mechanisms against insects. Therefore, the comparative metabolomic study betwe…

  Search for bioactive molecules to pest insect control through comparative metabolomic analysis among genotypes of commercial interest, AP.R

• Abstract

  Plants have developed various defense strategies against herbivory such as responses of constitutive and induced defenses, that represents the biosynthesis of phytotoxic molecules present, or produced under attack, respectively. In their turn, the insects have been seeking expertise to overcome the plant defense mechanisms allowing the continued practice of herbivory. One hypothesis is th…

  Evaluation of environmental factors on the metabolic profile of Gossypium hirsutum L., resistant (FMT-701) and susceptible (DeltaOpal), and its relation with detoxification mechanisms promoted by microorganisms associated to insect pests, AP.R

• Abstract

  Nature is plentiful of organic compounds of almost all conceivable kinds of chemical structures. Brazilian Cerrado (savannah) biome solely has nearly 160,000 species of plants, animals and fungi, which through its history has been exposed to complex interactions. These interactions have created a complex system of chemical communication intra and inter species, thus constituting a fascina…

  Phytochemical studies on plants from cerrado and their potential to control symbiont microorganisms of insect plague, AP.R

• Abstract

  Decades ago, agrochemicals were introduced with the aim of increasing crop yields through controlling pest insects. Due to the adaptation and resistance developed by these insects, each year more insecticides are consumed. However, this practice has been causing undesirable effects such as environmental contamination accompanied by an increase in the cost of food production. Pest insects …

  Chemical study of symbiont bacteria from soil pest insects, BP.IC

• Abstract

  The central aim of this plan of the work of the scientific initiation student is to study the chemical profile of the extract of endosymbiotic bacteria of Diabrotica speciosa. This plan of the work is a derived subproject from the main project which comes investigating the possibilities of population control of plague insects, for example, D. speciosa, through the biological inhibition ac…

  Chemical profile study of the extracts of endosymbiotic bacteria of the Diabrotica speciosa, BP.IC

• Abstract

  The female climacteric period (or peri-menopause) is the transition from fertile to infertile phases. Physiologically, during this time, the plasma estrogen level decreases, meanwhile the levels of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) in the pituitary gland increase. Due to the estrogen secretion step-down, many women can show some typical climacteric symptoms, …

  Method development and validation for standardization of Morus spp. leaves extracts and evaluation of biological activity of phytotherapic formulation for climacteric symptoms treatment, BP.DR

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• Abstract

  Decades ago, agrochemicals were introduced with the aim of increasing agricultural yields and the control of insects and weeds. Due to the adaptation and resistance developed by these pests, each year greater quantities of pesticide are consumed and/or greater is the need for new protection compounds. However, these practices have caused undesirable effects of environmental contamination.…

  Study of the efficiency of biodegradation processes of organic pollutants by endosymbiotic micro-organisms of the insect Diabrotica speciosa and its impact on the acquisition of resistance against insecticides, BE.PQ