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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Marcos Buckeridge is plant biologist who has spent 20 years working at the Botanical Institute of São Paulo with native Neotropical species. During his masters and PhD he worked with cell wall polysaccharides in plants and in 1995 established a line of research focused on the comprehension of the physiological and cellular mechanisms involved in seedling establishment in tropical biomes as well as the development of biotechnological tools to help the sustainable use of biodiversity. More than 80 publications were produced following these lines of research. With the increasing importance of the impact of Global Climatic Changes in the world, Dr. Buckeridge pioneered studies that try to understand how the rain forest, including Atlantic and Amazonian species, are responding to the increasing carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere. More recently, his research group added another focus, which is to understand how the sugar cane plant will respond to the climatic changes. This is important because sugarcane is now one of the most important crops in Brazil, being responsible for the production of ethanol as a fuel. Dr. Buckeridge moved to the University of São Paulo in 2006 and from 2009 to 2012 shared this position with the Scientific Directory of the Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory at Campinas. He is also the actual coordinator of the National Institute of Science and Technology of Bioethanol (INCT do Bioetanol) a virtual organization that congregates 31 laboratories from 6 states of Brazil working on bioenergy. He has been president of the Botanical Society of São Paulo from 2001 to 2005 and is one of the lead authors for the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climatic Changes (IPCC) to be presented in 2014. Presently, Dr. Buckeridge is a communicating editor for Trees:structure and function (Springer), Bioenergy Research (Springer), Global Change Biology Bioenergy and the Australian Journal of Botany. Buckeridge has been President of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo from 2015 to 2019. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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| Los árboles tropicales viven menos |
| Entre azúcares y genes |
| Between sugars and genes |
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During the second phase of the INCT-bioethanol we intend to integrate the knowledge obtained during the last 6 years to assemble enzyme consortia that will hydrolyze the cell walls of sugarcane quickly and efficiently. The main focus will be to design enzyme consortiums that can be used to hydrolyze diverse sugarcane biomasses as well as genetically and chemically transformed varieties. T…
The allocation of funds for repairing and maintenance of equipment and the renovation of laboratories is a constant need of the Institute of Biosciences, as it enables researchers to improve the research infrastructure. The acquisition of permanent materials will meet the specific needs of some of the unit's multi-user laboratories. (AU)
The allocation of funds for repairing and maintenance of equipment and the renovation of laboratories is a constant need of the Institute of Biosciences, as it enables researchers to improve the research infrastructure. The acquisition of permanent materials will meet the specific needs of some of the unit's multi-user laboratories. (AU)
This study aims at evaluating the physiological and metabolic responses of crops to global climate changes. Projections indicate an elevation of the atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]) concomitantly with an intensification of drought for this century, will increase the challenges to food security. On the one hand, drought is a main environmental factor responsibleltor decreasing crop pr…
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Sugarcane bagasse is a promising raw material for the production of second-generation ethanol, but its use presents challenges, from the high costs of pre-treatment and hydrolysis, associated with cell wall recalcitrance, which limits the saccharification yield. Although pectins have been largely neglected as important components of the cell wall, due to their low content (~8%) in sugarca…
The aerenchyma of sugarcane roots consists of a modular, constitutive, and lysigenic mechanism, in which cells in the root cortex are degraded via programmed cell death and there are changes in the cell wall. Inherent in the process of aerenchyma formation, it is already known that the transcription factor ScRAV1 is an important regulator, which negatively controls the expression of an en…
Xyloglucan (XG) is the principal hemicellulose in plants, being probably the most abundant polymer in nature after cellulose. XG displays specific interaction with cellulose and is thought to form a covering layer onto cellulose microfibrils, composing a network of polymers that, on one hand alters the mechanical properties of the cell wall and on the other hand protects cell walls agains…
Increasing crop yield relies crucially on a holistic understanding of plant growth, which results from the combined action among metabolism, water/nutrient availability, cellular and development programs. These elements will collectively govern the balance among carbon (C) assimilation, allocation and usage during the diel cycle as well as along developmental stages. Plant cell walls repr…
Tree rings are one of the most reliable natural archives, which is able to produce reconstructions with annual resolution. It has being largely used for the reconstruction of climate and pollution data prior to instrumental records, in both temperate and tropical regions. The aim of the present study is to reconstruct the climate and the atmospheric pollution in five regions of São Paulo …
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A significant knowledge gap in bioenergy science is how products of polysaccharide biosynthesis are integrated into composites and how their structural complexities contribute to macro and micro-scale architectures. Solving such problems can be helpful to a) improve hydrolysis procedures that could be more precise and effective in producing free sugars and b) design polymers tailored for …
Mechanisms incurring in degradation of plant cell wall polysaccharides are quite frequent, given that it is an important barrier to the entry of pathogens and is it also an obstacle to the physical expansion, cell division and differentiation of a tissue. In many physiological events the cell wall has to be modified to enable structural changes typical of each event. The study of these pr…
During development of the roots of sugarcane, the cells of the cortex undertake transformations related to programmed cell death in which a series of events lead to degradation of organelles and changes in cell walls. The observations found in the literature describe the phenomenon as a result of a gene transcription program that leads to a series of events occurring in a particular order…
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