graduation at Agronomia from Universidade de São Paulo (1982), master's at Ciências Biológicas (Biologia Vegetal) from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1987) and doctorate at Ciências Biológicas (Biologia Vegetal) from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1990). Has experience in Botany, focusing on Vegetal Physiology, acting on the following subjects: café, lignina, cafeína, eucalipto and cana de açúcar. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Currently, the agricultural sector faces two concurrent challenges: the increasing the food productivity of the growing global population, increasing the efficiency of resource use, and reducing the environmental impact on ecosystems and human health generated by the excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The use of plant biostimulants is a very helpful practice in resolvin…
This proposal aims to integrate research developed in Brazil, by the group of Dr Paulo Mazzafera, from the State University of Campinas, with the expertise in metabolomics of Dr Toshihiro Obata, from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Two projects under development in Brazil, one granted by FAPESP, would have their materials subjected to metabolomics analyses. In the first project (Fap…
In several plants, Na can partially replace K, leading to even greater growth. This substitution would be mainly linked to the effects on the osmotic potential. In Eucalyptus, this has been studied, and its viability has been verified in the field, where Na could partially replace K, with reduced fertilization costs and without adverse effects on growth. However, this possibility has been…
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The partial replacement of potassium (K+), the most demanding nutrient for Eucalyptus, by sodium (Na+), a beneficial element, has been proposed as a promising management strategy to enhance forest productivity and alleviate drought impacts. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms triggering K+ and Na+-upregulated plant metabolism is a key challenge for the agricultural industry that …
Biostimulants are substances of increasing interest as they are inputs originating from different sources that can enhance nutritional efficiency, tolerance to abiotic stress, and/or the quality characteristics of the harvest. The current model of agricultural production, centered on productivity, is sustained by dependence on chemical fertilizers, giving rise to concerns related to resou…
Conservationist production systems, such as no-tillage system (NT), represent a sustainable way to produce food, as long as its three principles are attained: (i) no soil tillage; (ii) permanent soil cover either as plant residues or living plants; and (iii) crop rotation. However, the way NT is done in Brazil, those principles are not always attained and problems such as soil compaction,…
This project aims to study the existence of a synergistic interaction between P and Mg, leading to better development of eucalyptus species, which differ in terms of their efficiency and responsiveness regarding P uptake. A few studies show that this occurs in plants but has never been evaluated in eucalyptus. Therefore, because we will use two species of eucalyptus that differ regarding…
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Phosphorus (P) is part of essential molecules for life, such as ATP, RNA and DNA molecules, membrane lipids, among others without which plants cannot survive. Phosphate rocks used to produce fertilizers are finite, and the fact that P in the soil is frequently poorly available to plants makes it necessary to maximize the efficiency of P use by plants. More than 80% of terrestrial plant sp…
Phosphorus (P) is part of essential molecules for plants life. Because phosphate rocks used to produce fertilizers are finite and soil P availability is generally low in areas with P-fixing soils, there is a need to better understand plant responses to P availability. To access soil P, plants possess a series of mechanisms required to maximize P-uptake and its use efficiency. In previous …
Genome editing using clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9 system (CRISPR/Cas9) has been proven as a powerful tool in genome editing and promises to revolutionize the use of biotechnology for crop breeding. Engineered from prokaryotes immune system, genome editing by CRISPR enable the progress of more accurate science considering its high r…
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