This project aims to study nutritional factors and establish new types of diets for tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus), pintado ( Pseudoplatystoma corruscans), tambaqui ( Colossoma macropomum) and marine shrimp ( Litopenaeus vannamei.), species inserted into production chains still incipient in Brazil. Due to the differentiated state of each species, studies were conducted in oreder to fill the nutritional gaps in key technological areas in which each species had greate ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

There is pressure from society for sustainable production systems, which makes it necessary the establishment of sustainability parameters for the production systems. In this regard, animal nutrition can influence the viability and sustainability of the production system, not only by the herd feeding impact on milk production cost but also by the emission of greenhouse gases and excretion of pollutants. The basic premise of precision nutrition is the knowledge of the animal nutritional requireme

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

This project involves activities and research related to clonal forestry, nutrition, and health foryerba mate involving pest and disease monitoring. These activities involve partnerships withthe Brazilian Yerba Mate Institute (IBRAMATE) and Ervateira Baldo S.A., which provide financialresources, space, labor, and raw materials. Research will be conducted to improve the yerbamate production system in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Paraná. The objectives are toassess progeny tests and clones ...

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

The experiment's goal is to study the interaction between nutrient availability and plant density over the production and allocation of biomass, nutrition and wood quality of homogenous populations of balsa wood ( Ochroma pyramidale )

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

The project intends to develop an agricultural process for the use of manipueira aiming at plant nutrition and control of fusariosis in passion fruit.

Status: In progress     Start date: Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2021

The project has the aim of finishing the development of the mobile and Remote Small Ruminant Nutrition Advice Service - AssessoNutri by assessing the technological solution in its actual environment and measuring its impacts. The Service, which can estimate the composition of the diet and pastures consumed by animals and prescribe the formulation of diets and need for supplements with higher precision, will be implemented in three Technical Reference Units in the region of the Inhamuns backcount

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

The general objective of this project was to identify microbial strains that produce enzymes capable of degrading fibers or hydrolyzing secondary anti-nutritional compounds, aiming to identify microbial isolates (rumen bacteria or fungi) with fibrolytic capacity or tolerant to anti-nutritional factors, as well as to expeditiously isolate and characterize fibrolytic enzymes. It was also the objective of this project that the use of laboratory procedures would serve to train undergraduate and grad

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

This project consistes in the development of the Uzum system for the diagnosis of diseases, pests and nutritional and physiological disorders in four temperate climate fruits: Grapes, Peaches, Strawberries and Apples. The software uses artificial intelligence to quickly diagnose possible disturbances occurring in the orchard, using a simple and direct interface. The knowledge base is generated from information and images provided by experts in each area. The system is being developed initially f

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

Since Brazil has a strong prospect of becoming a major exporter of dairy products, the production chain of milk needs to prepare to overcome obstacles such as non-tariff barriers related to food safety and quality assurance. Thus, this project aimed to gather information and develop methodologies for addressing such a challenge. One of the goals was the physicochemical and microbiological characterization of four dairy products (Minas Standard cheese, curd cheese, condensed milk, and whey powder

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

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: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019