Bárbara Gonçalves Silva

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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

Bárbara Gonçalves Silva in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.

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"Witche's broom" is the main disease affecting cacao (Theobroma cacao), limiting cocoa production in South America and the Caribbean. The basidiomycete fungus Moniliophthora perniciosa, the etiologic agent of the disease, has a hemibiotropic lifestyle with a long and peculiar biotrophic period, causing the symptoms of swelling and induction of lateral shoots in the infected branches. The …
Functional analysis of the SlUACA gene potentially associated with resistance to Moniliophthora perniciosa, which causes the witches' broom disease in cacao, tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cv. Micro Tone, BP.IC

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Antonio Vargas de Oliveira Figueira

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Biological Sciences Genetics

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