Starter culture production in fluidized bed reactor with a flocculent strain ofL. plantarum

A lactic starter culture of a flocculentLactobacillus plantarum was produced in a fluidized bed reactor with higher cell volumetric productivities than in a continuous stirred tank reactor. The fluidized bed reactor was operated at optimised parameters obtained in batch reactor performed with and without pH control

Prospecção fenotípica de genótipos de soja resistentes ao nematoide reniforme.

JIPE 2013

Genetic diversity as an additional selection criterion in a carioca common bean recurrent selection program for resistance to common bacterial blight.

Common beans are a key source of protein and are consumed daily by most of the Brazilian population. More than 70% of what is consumed in this country is classified as carioca beans, based on seed qualities and appearance. We evaluated progenies of carioca common beans of the Brazilian agriculture research agency (Embrapa) recurrent selection program. This recurrent selection program is based on resistance to common bean bacterial blight (CBB), seed yield, and other important agronomic traits. Selection also considers the genetic representativeness of the parents and the genetic diversity among phenotypically selected progenies. Initially, 60 superior progenies were selected based on resistance to CBB and on seed type, in two locations (Santo Antônio de Goiás, GO and Ponta Grossa, PR). These progenies were evaluated in the C0S0:2 generation in field trials in six locations during the rainy growing season. A randomized block experimental design was used with two replications, in plots of two 3-m rows spaced at 0.5 m. The most promising C0S0:3 progenies for combined agronomic performance in the different environments were selected and were then evaluated by means of 24 microsatellite molecular markers for the purpose of determining the genetic representativeness of their parents and the genetic diversity among them. The phenotypic data was subjected to analysis of variance for each trait in each of the environments, and then joint analyses were performed. To estimate genetic diversity among the progenies, the Rogers-W genetic distance was used, and a dissimilarity matrix was used to construct a dendrogram of genetic distances through the UPGMA method. Among the 60 C0S0:2 progenies that were evaluated, those that stood out for resistance to CBB also stood out for seed yield and for resistance to other diseases. Various progenies were superior, exhibiting large genetic distances between each other and in relation to the parents. This indicates a possibility of direct and indirect gains from the recurrent selection program. This molecular information will help direct selection of individuals for future recombination cycles

High cell density reactor for the production of Lactobacillus plantarum

The production of a flocculent strain of Lactobacillus plantarum was performed in a high cell density reactor: a fluidized bed reactor (FBR) with a settler and an external cell recirculation. Two variables were assessed, the recirculation rate (R) and the dilution rate (D). The effect of the latter is much more important than the effect of the former in ensuring a quick start up in the flocculation process. The cell volumetric productivities obtained with this system increase directly with dilution rate and recirculation rate. The values of cell volumetric productivities obtained are considerably higher than those obtained in continuous stirred tank reactors (CSTR) and much higher than in batch reactors

Caracterização molecular de linhagens de introgressão do cruzamento interespecífico Oryza sativa x O. glumaepatula por marcadores SSR fluorescentes.

Este trabalho teve como objetivo realizar a caracterização molecular de 114 linhagens de Introgressão RC2F9 derivadas do cruzamento O. sativa Cica-8 x O. glumaepatula RS-16

The Quark-Gluon Vertex and the QCD Infrared Dynamics

The Dyson-Schwinger quark equation is solved for the quark-gluon vertex using the most recent lattice data available in the Landau gauge for the quark, gluon and ghost propagators, the full set of longitudinal tensor structures in the Ball-Chiu vertex, taking into account a recently derived normalisation for a quark-ghost kernel form factors and the gluon contribution for the tree level quark-gluon vertex identified on a recent study of the lattice soft gluon limit. A solution for the inverse problem is computed after the Tikhonov linear regularisation of the integral equation, that implies solving a modified Dyson-Schwinger equation. We get longitudinal form factors that are strongly enhanced at the infrared region, deviate significantly from the tree level results for quark and gluon momentum below 2 GeV and at higher momentum approach their perturbative values. The computed quark-gluon vertex favours kinematical configurations where the quark momentum $p$ and the gluon momentum $q$ are small and parallel. Further, the quark-gluon vertex is dominated by the form factors associated to the tree level vertex $\gamma_\mu$ and to the operator $2 \, p_\mu + q_\mu$. The higher rank tensor structures provide small contributions to the vertex.Comment: Some rewriting. Version accepted for publication in Eur Phys J

Efeito da interação genótipo x ambiente no ganho esperado com seleção em feijoeiro-comum.

O objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar o efeito da interação genótipos x ambientes e o reflexo do ganho com a seleção em determinados ambiente, por meio da seleção praticada em outros ambientes, para produtividade de grãos.CONAF

Diversidade genética de cultivares e linhagens de feijoeiro-comum com base na reação a doenças.

Este trabalho objetivou estimar a diversidade genética entre cultivares e linhagens elite desenvolvidas pela Embrapa e parceiros com base na reação às principais doenças que acometem a cultura no Brasil: antracnose (Colletotrichum lindemuthianum), ferrugem (Uromyces appendiculatus), mancha-angular (Pseudocercospora griseola), murcha-de-fusário (Fusarium oxysporum) e crestamento-bacteriano-comum (Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. phaseoli).CONAF