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Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Brasil). Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA). Embrapa Meio-Ambiente (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Itamar Soares de Melo in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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Agriculture is the central pillar of human social structure. On this activity lies the generation of food, energy, clothing and many other essential products to society. However, this activity can also act as a causal agent of important environmental changes, such as soil contamination with agricultural inputs (pesticides and fertilizers), and the Greenhouse Gases (GG) emissions. Given th…
Fungal breakdown of lignocellulose in tropical forests is of central importance to terrestrial carbon cycling, and the fungus Trichoderma, an ubiquitous colonizer of cellulosic materials, is one of the most frequently isolated in most soils of various ecosystems, and produces cellulolytic enzymes that function synergistically to decompose plant biomass. It make a significant contribution …
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Water stress can cause a high problem to the crop field and limitation on plant growth in the whole world. Corn is one of the bigger crops produced in Brazil that together with Soybean are responsible for 15% of GDP. Water is essential for the plant, and when a crop is submitted to lost water during the planting period that can be directly related to grain yield decrease. Thus, it is impo…
Water stress is taken as the main point for studies in future scenarios, where agricultural production must be maintained (or increased) even in the least available water. This proposal aims to give greater support to the part of the project that explores this interaction. This project will be based on this link between a soil biology (with emphasis on microbial communities) and a higher …
Many species of the fungus Trichoderma spp. have economic importance due its use in biological control in different cultures, and many of these strains have various mechanisms, such as antibiosis, production of cell wall degrading enzymes, competition for nutrients and microparasitismo resulting in beneficial effects on plants. With the great diversity and richness that the Amazon forest …
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Cyanobacteria are among the richest organisms on the planet in terms of biologically active secondary metabolites production. These natural products represent diverse compounds and drug leads that can be used for applications as therapeutic agents and antibiotics. However, these natural products are often produced in low amounts by these organisms, which can grow slowly, and sometimes can…
Complex polyketides are microbial natural products (including clinically-useful medicines) whose chemical structures correlate with the sequence of the modular enzymes responsible for their biosynthesis. This unique paradigm means that the structure of the gene can be inferred from the chemical structure of the molecule, and (with less certainty) the reverse is true. Now, genome-scale seq…
The use of NGS technologies have allowed researchers to study host-microbe interactions at an unprecedent scale. These studies began with a huge interest in the study of human gut microbiome and other eukaryotic hosts. However, it has been realised the importance of studying plant-associated microorganisms, especially those inhabiting the rhizosphere, which is modulated by root exudates t…
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| 33 / 14 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
| 3 / 3 | Completed scholarships abroad |
| 50 / 25 | All research grants and scholarships |
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