graduate at Engenharia Agronômica from Universidade de São Paulo (1981), master's at Genética e Melhoramento de Plantas from Universidade de São Paulo (1987) and ph.d. at Genética e Melhoramento de Plantas from Universidade de São Paulo (1998). He is currently professor doutor at Universidade de São Paulo. Has experience in Genetics, acting on the following subjects: microssatélites, diversidade genética, variabilidade genética, agricultura tradicional and mandioca. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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In Brazil, the extraordinary diversity and potentiality of the fruits of the Amazon and Northeast regions, deserve special mention, which has aroused great interest. Among these are the bacuri (Platonia insignis Mart.), hog plum (Spondias mombin L.) and umbu (S. tuberosa Arruda Câmara). This project aims to investigate the phylogeographic patterns and demographic history of these fruit tr…
The processes of plant domestication and dispersal occurred over the past 12,000 years, involving strong selective pressures caused both by humans and by natural selection itself, leading to genetic modifications to better adapt selected populations to the ecological and agronomic conditions, and cultural aspects of human populations that cultivated them. By using tools of molecular genet…
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The domestication of plants is a coevolutionary process, involving the selection and human propagation of phenotypes of interest, which may result in morphological and genetic changes, distinguishing the domesticated plants from their wild progenitors. In the Amazon, species selection dates from the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, having at least 83 native plant species with populati…
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Annatto (Bixa orellana L.) is a tropical crop indigenous to America, probably to the Amazon region. This species is receiving great attention due to the natural red dye extracted from its seeds used in the pharmaceutical, textile, dairy, food, beverage, paints and cosmetics industries. Despite its growing economic importance, the conservation and manipulation of annatto genetic resources …
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