Scientific research of the Agronomic Institute of Campinas. He is coordinator of the Citrus Biotechnology Laboratory in the Citriculture Center, in Cordeirópolis, São Paulo. Currently he is its Director. His main research area includes studies on the plant-pathogen interactions with focus in the integration of genetic breeding and genomic. Supported by CNPq his coordinated grants of PADCT II, Pronex, BioEx and Millennium Institute. In the FAPESP he is leader of Thematic and Individual Projects. He collaborates as adviser in the Master of Science and PhD of Genetic and Molecular Biology and Functional and Molecular Biology at University of Campinas (Unicamp), and Genetic at Unesp (Botucatu). He is the leader of the National Institute for Science and Technology of Genomics for Citrus Breeding. Member of the National Technical Committee on Biosafety (CTNBio) and Member of the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology (CA-BI) of CNPq. Member of Brazilian Science Academy. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The mission of the Agronomic Institute (IAC/APTA/SAA) is to generate and transfer science, technology and products for the optimization of plant production systems, with environmental responsibility, aiming at socioeconomic development and food security through research, training of human resources and heritage preservation. In recent years, special emphasis has been placed on the transfe…
The main goal of the Institutional Development Plan is to improve the work conditions and the development of products and services targeted to agribusiness production chains. These products and services, developed by the Agronomic Institute, should positively impact the scientific development and those technological packages that brings innovations to the agribusiness. On such a backgroun…
Citrus industry is one of the most important activities of the Brazilian agriculture. São Paulo, Sergipe and Bahia are the main citrus producers, and Brazil is by far the main producer and exporter of frozen concentrated (FCOJ) and not from concentrated (NFC) orange juice in the world. The low Brazilian yield (approximately 2 boxes 40.8 kg/tree/year) is strictly associated to the incidenc…
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The citrus industry has been extremely affected by Huanglongbing (HLB), a disease caused by the ±-proteobacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas). As all commercial species are susceptible to HLB, the development of tolerant commercial varieties has become the biggest challenge in citrus production. The possibility of creating targeted mutations using CRISPR technology promoting …
Citriculture is one of the main agro-industrial activities in the State of São Paulo. Currently, production costs have increased due to the management necessary for the maintenance of orchards in front of Huanglongbing (HLB), one of the main threats in the world citrus industry. The search for genotypes that show greater tolerance to the bacteria has been one of the biggest challenges in …
Associated with responses to biotic and abiotic stresses, the accumulation of callose is an important defense mechanism of the plants. Callose is a polymer of B-1,3-glucan units that accumulate on phloem sieve tube plates, on the wall of the pollen grains, pollen tube, on other cell wall reinforcing structures. In citrus, callose seems to play an important role in defense responses to bio…
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Citrus leprosis virus C (CiLV-C), type member of the genus Cilevirus, is an enveloped (+) ssRNA virus that atypically does not spread systemically in its plant hosts. Upon virus inoculation using viruliferous Brevipalpus sp. mites, only local lesions are observed and the viral infection remains restricted to cells around the inoculation sites. Half of the CiLV-C encoded genes have unknown…
Brazil is responsible for a third of world production of orange, as well as for 80% of international orange juice market. The European Union is the main market in this Brazilian agrobusiness. However, losses in the export of fruits occur because of A1 quarantine diseases, causing restrictions on the importation of Brazilian citrus products into European countries. One of these diseases is…
Diaphorina citri (Kuwayama) is one of most important vectors of citrus diseases. It transmits the bacteria Candidatus Liberibacter americanus and Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, the causal agents of citrus huanglongbing (HLB). The management of HLB in Brazil is based on the use of healthy young plants from protected nurseries, eradication of infected plants, and chemical control of the…
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