(He/Him) Dr. Carlos Hotta is an Associate Professor at the Biochemistry Department at University of São Paulo (Brazil). Dr. Hotta graduated in Biology at Universidade de São Paulo (2000), got a Master's Degree in Animal Physiology from Universidade de São Paulo (2002), and a Ph.D. in Plant Sciences from University of Cambridge (2007). His research group is interested in the circadian rhythms of plants. The main topic of his research is to study how the circadian clock increases the productivity of a plant and how it can be used in agriculture. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The circadian clock is a signaling network that allows plants to track the time of the day. Plants with circadian clocks that are in synchrony with environmental rhythms assimilate more C, grow more, and have larger fitness than plants with altered circadian clocks. Traditional breeding methods have led to changes in the circadian clock of many crops, such as wheat, barley, and rice, whic…
The aim of this project is to consolidate a Max Planck Institute/Universidade de São Paulo collaboration to investigate the interplay between the metabolism and the circadian clock in plants. The research group in the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (Germany) has a long history investigating several aspects of the regulation and integration of the plant metabolism. The …
The aim of this project is to characterize the circadian clock in different organs and tissues in C4 grasses and investigate their interaction. As secondary aims, we will characterize diurnal and circadian rhythms in the mesophyl and bundle sheath cells in sugarcane and Setaria viridis; characterize the differences between the circadian clocks in the leaves and the internodes of sugarcane…
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The circadian clock is a molecular regulatory mechanism that is synchronous with environmental variables in order to measure diurnal and seasonal cycles. In plants, it is known that the circadian clock regulate most of metabolism, including photosynthesis. In addition to photosynthetic genes, chloroplast genes are also subject to circadian control. Recently, it was discovered that circadi…
Endogenous oscillators are ubiquitous in nature and allows organisms to synchronize their internal rhythms to the abiotic rhythms and anticipate significative changes in their habitat. Desiccation is a harsh stress that is present in all ecosystems, which through thousand years selected many groups of organisms that were able to tolerate it. Part of this tolerance is due to its anticipati…
Sugarcane is a cultivar with great economical importance. There has been an effort to develop new biotechnological tools that could increase sugarcane productivity or add new features to the crop, like drought resistance. Recent studies in our research group found that a relatively high proportion of the sugarcane transcriptome is under control of the circadian clock. Among these transcri…
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Green algae are photosynthetic eukaryotes with great importance in the trophic chain and in the biogeochemical cycles in all aquatic ecosystems. In temperate oceans, the drastic increase in phytoplankton growth rate in the winter - spring transition is known as algal bloom. The increase of day length during spring is a key factor in the induction of algae growth. One signalling pathway in…
The main PhD project Characterization of the circadian clock and its impact on sugarcane metabolism aims: I) to understand how the sugarcane circadian clock core oscillator works and all its mechanisms; II) to analyze the circadian clock impact on sugarcane metabolism. In order to achieve this characterization, two sugarcane fields were cultivate for 14 months, the first one sown in the d…
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