SucEST - the sugarcane EST project - sequencing laboratory

• Processo: 99/02867-2
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa GENOMA
• Data de Início da vigência: 01 de junho de 1999
• Data de Término da vigência: 31 de dezembro de 2002
• Área do conhecimento: Ciências Biológicas - Genética - Genética Molecular e de Microorganismos
• Pesquisador responsável: Maria Helena de Souza Goldman
• Beneficiário: Maria Helena de Souza Goldman
• Instituição Sede: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brasil
• Bolsa(s) vinculada(s): 00/02999-5 - SUCEST: The Sugarcane Est Project, BP.TT; 00/04735-5 - SUCEST: The Sugarcane Est Project, BP.TT; 99/12753-4 - SUCEST: The Sugarcane Est Project, BP.TT; 99/12752-8 - SUCEST: The Sugarcane Est Project, BP.TT; 99/12754-0 - SUCEST: The Sugarcane Est Project, BP.TT
• Assunto(s): DNA complementar Cana-de-açúcar Análise de sequência de DNA Genoma Cana-de-Açúcar - SucEST
• Palavra(s)-Chave do Pesquisador: Cdna | Est | Grasses | Saccharum | Sequencing | Sugarcane

Resumo

Sugarcane is one of the world's most important crop plants and is cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas. Brazil is responsible for 25% of the world's production, half of which comes from Sao Paulo state. The main goal of SUCEST is to undertake a large scale EST (expressed sequence tag) program by sequencing random clones from cDNA libraries prepared from several sugarcane tissues (calli, root, stalk, etiolated leaves, flowers, developing seeds, etc.). ESTs should play a major role in generating information on expressed genes in grasses. The aim of the SUCEST project is to identify around 50,000 sugarcane genes. The information provided by SUCEST can be exploited by the research community in studies aimed to use the sugarcane genes as source of markers for agriculturally significant characteristics and also to provide molecular basis for studies of plant growth and development that could be further used to solve questions in plant physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, pathology and ultimately plant breeding. (AU)