Agriculture in Brazil is a means for promoting significant socioeconomic sustainable progress. However, the productivity of cereal crops such as maize, rice, wheat and sorghum is below their potential. The low availability of phosphorus (P) and inadequate fertilization are some of the major challenges of modern agriculture. In tropical soil, the phosphorus is carried out by adding high dosages of water-soluble phosphates, since most of the added fertilizer becomes unavailable because of fixat

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

Recent evidence from observational studies and controlled clinical trials indicates that milk fat, although predominantly saturated, has neutral or positive effects on cardiometabolic health. Such benefits have been attributed to the complex and unique chemical nature of milk fat, which contains several compounds potentially beneficial to health, such as butyric acid (C4:0), vaccenic acid ( trans-11 C18:1), rumenic acid ( cis--9, trans-11 CLA), oleic acid ( cis-9 C18 ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016

The identification of economically relevant genes might translate into considerable competitive advantage in markets more and more competitive and globalized. Genes which are associated with plague resistance, productivity increase and organoleptic attributes (which can be experienced by the senses such as color, taste and texture) appreciated by consumers are extremely important to the Brazilian stockbreeding market. There is a considerable number of bioinformatic tools that are available to th

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008