This project aims to index viral matrices from black pepper nursery ponds in the state of Pará and Espírito Santo, and also to characterize biologically, serologically, morphologically, and molecularly the unknown virus and develop diagnosis kits for such, to optimize a black pepper in vitro propagation protocol, to form a basic matrix (cloned garden) in screened green house, and to offer seedlings to nursery ponds in order to revitalize the existing matrix, to offer training on black pepper vir ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

The identification of animals with more efficiency in feed utilization is one of the alternatives to overcome the challenges as increased production costs, increased consumer awareness regarding food safety, animal welfare and environmental impacts of the agriculture and livestock. As feeding expenses account for the main cost of livestock activity, differences among animals in converting diet to beef and milk are of great relevance. Animals that use feed more efficiently need to consume less to

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017

Milk production systems in Brazil are based, for the most part, on the use of tropical grass pastures as the main source of nutrients for animals. Keeping high levels of pasture-based milk production depends on the following factors: supply of forage in quantity and quality, maximum duration of the grazing season, rational use of energy, protein and mineral supplements, and definition of management strategy that aims at productivity by area. Therefore, intensive pasture management results in for

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017

Due to the importance of leguminous vegetables for human diets, the year of 2016 was declared by FAO the International Year of Pulses. Pulses are well appreciated in Brazil, and are consumed either fresh or in the form of processed products. Internal consumption has required frequent imports of such pulses; for peas and chickpeas alone, they represented US$ 14 million a year. The domestic market tends to expand due to the constant association of such foods with a series of attributes of high foo

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016

Embrapa has built a highly conducive environment for the use of strategic and competitive intelligence to support action planning and scheduling and to provide important information to the different agents in the supply chains to which it relates. This is expressed in Embrapa's Agropensa (Strategic Intelligence System) dedicated to producing and disseminating knowledge and information in support of the formulation of research, development and innovation strategies for the corporation and its par

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017

The epiteliochorial nature of pig placenta lines it against the transfer of maternal immunoglobulins to the embryo, and hence, the piglets depend on the ingestion of colostrum to acquire passive immunity. Colostrum is rich in immunoglobulins and in immune cells besides other bioactive compounds that jointly nourish and regulate biological functions. However, little is known about the role of some of these components, such as cytokines, for instance, which participate in the innate and adaptative

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018

Brazil is the fifth largest producer of milk in the world with 35 billion liters produced in 2015. However, Brazilian dairy farmers still need improve milk quality and reduce production costs. One of the major limiting factors to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of milk production in Brazil is the management of dairy farms. In this context, Embrapa Gado de Leite developed, in partnership with the Central Cooperative of Rural Producers of Minas Gerais -(Cooperativa Central dos Produtor

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018

Staphylococcus aureus ( S. aureus) is often associated with cases of bovine mastitis, a common disease in dairy herds that causes economic losses to the farmer and industry. In addition, S. aureus is often associated with outbreaks of food poisoning, as some strains can produce staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs). SEs are a major cause of gastroenteritis resulting from the consumption of contaminated foods, including milk and dairy products. Although S. aureus is dest ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017

The technology for gene editing based on the CRISPR / Cas9 system (Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats associated to Cas9 endonuclease) consists of an endonuclease (Cas9) guided by RNA (guide RNA - sgRNA), which is capable of editing the genome with accuracy. This system enables the inactivation of genes through cleavage followed by repairing the strands by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) leading to the knockout of the expression, which results extremely useful to prevent

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018

In intensive milk production systems, planning roughage supplementation is critical to the success of the activity. In Brazil the main forage conservation strategy is ensilage, in which maize is the main crop used, due to its high ensilability and silage nutritive value. However, the oscillation of input prices (fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, etc.) has increased the production costs of such crop, a fact that has been pointed out by farmers as a barrier for the economic viability of the producti

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017