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| Brazilian native fruit species are excellent generators of income and job opportunities to family farmers and micro-entrepreneurs especially from the Northern and Northeastern regions of Brazil. Species such as the Platonia insignis, Myrciaria dubia, Byrsonima crassifolia and the Spondia mombin L. have been frequently cited as economically promising in the field of family farming, due to the myriad of business possibilities linked to the ever increasing demand of Status: Completed Start date: Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008 |
| Germplasm banks have as their main purpose to get together in one place part of the genetic variability (germplasm), in order to prevent the loss of genes or gene combinations (genetic erosion), thus ensuring a broad genetic basis for research programs. Germplasm banks are usually made up of local races (ethnovarieties), improved varieties and wild species of the same genus. And because they bring together genetic constitutions of different origins and different breeding levels, they can be grea Status: Completed Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| Genetic Vegetable resources, globally, involve a number of around 300,000 identified species, of which 30,000 are edible and only 30 consist of foods that feed the world's population. However, from this total, only three species provide 50% of proteins necessary in a regular diet (rice, wheat and corn). This situation has been stimulating a great number of researchers in the quest to increase the number of species dedicated to feed the population. Brazil is considered the world's greatest source Status: Completed Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| Embrapa invests in the conservation of native strains of microorganisms, which can be used by the scientific community in several research programs, ranging from diagnosis, treatment of diseases and production of vaccines for human and animal application to reducing the environmental impact of Productive processes and the generation of renewable energy. Status: Completed Start date: Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008 |
| Cereal such as wheat, rice, corn, maize, oats, sorghum, millets, triticale, and rye make up the base of human and animal foods and feeds, respectively. Many of these species contribute significantly to the sustainability of agricultural production systems in Brazil, generating jobs and boosting the country's economy. Collectively, these cultures add up to 19 millions of cultivated hectares and 47 million tons of produced grains, which is almost half of the country's total grain production. Howev Status: Completed Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| Molecular genetics is an additional tool which provides information for the detection and exploitation of genes or chromosomal regions with large influence on economic traits. This comes from the development of dense maps of linkage disequilibrium among genetic markers for many livestock species. Although each type of genetic marker has advantages and disadvantages, the only polymorphisms with enough density to meet important requirements for gene mapping are the Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013 |
| The use of nanotechnology has been putting nanoparticles and nanostructures in contact with live organisms in ways not yet fully understood. In agriculture, this interaction can occur on a large scale, such as in the applications of controlled release nanostructure-encapsulated pesticides whose toxicity inherent to the drug release system still requires continual verification. Cases like this have motivated the proposal of this project, whose objective was to evaluate the potential impact on liv Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| With 200 million head, Brazil is the largest world producer of cattle. However, national beef cattle farming is characterized by low productivity and a large variation in beef quality. This second aspect can be justified by the large Zebu fraction found in the genetic base of our herds. Zebu breeds normally present less soft beef with lower marbling when compared with taurine breeds, making the appraisal of this meat difficult in international markets. Therefore, the development of genotypes tha Status: Completed Start date: Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| Status: Completed Start date: Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 |
| The development of new technologies for the agricultural sector from cutting-edge areas such as nanotechnology is a demand Embrapa has recognized. The crosscutting and pervasive nature of developments in this area also makes it difficult to understand models that allow these new technologies to actually reach the production sector. It is evident that when a company in the food sector assimilates new technology, its behavior is structurally different from that of a company in the plastics industr Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |