Tronco decomposto de acuri (Attalea phalerata Mart. ex Spreng.) como substrato alternativo para produção de mudas de manjericão.

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Plant-pathogen interactions: what is proteomics telling us?

Review article - In this review, we highlight the proteins expressed during plant-virus, plant-bacterium, plant-fungus and plant-nematode interactions reported in proteomic studies, and discuss these findings considering the advantages and limitations of current proteomic tools

Transcriptome analysis in response to gradual water deficit in Arachis wild relatives.

Peanut (cultivated tetraploid Arachis hypogaea) is an important food legume widely cultivated mainly in Asia, Africa and the Americas although its productivity is limited in drought-prone areas; therefore the development of drought-resistant varieties is a priority. Peanut has a narrow genetic diversity and is reproductively isolated from its wild diploid relatives due to ploidy differences. In contrast to peanut, wild relatives have higher genetic diversity and show adaptation to a range of environments thus constituting a rich source of allele diversity for resistance to biotic and tolerance to abiotic stresses. In this study, the transcriptomes of two wild diploids, A. duranensis and A. magna, representatives of the AA and BB peanut component genomes respectively, were analyzed under gradual water deficit. Two SSH libraries produced from roots of A. magna generated 759 Sanger ESTs with 249 Unigenes, whilst from A. duranensis roots, 380,601 Roche/454 reads resulted in12,792 Unigenes. Forty-six Unigenes were selected as drought-related candidates for validation by RT-qPCR by in silico analysis of all libraries. A total of 18 candidate genes showed significantly different levels of expression in stressed plants, confirming their involvement in drought response. To date, this is the first report on global gene expression profile of wild Arachis species submitted to an abiotic stress. Data produced in this study is a valuable resource for gene identification, characterization of new alleles and development of molecular markers in Arachis

The genome structure of Arachis hypogaea (Linnaeus, 1753) and an induced Arachis allotetraploid revealed by molecular cytogenetics.

Peanut, Arachis hypogaea (Linnaeus, 1753) is an allotetraploid cultivated plant with two subgenomes derived from the hybridization between two diploid wild species, A. duranensis (Krapovickas & W. C. Gregory, 1994) and A. ipaensis (Krapovickas & W. C. Gregory, 1994), followed by spontaneous chromosomal duplication. To understand genome changes following polyploidy, the chromosomes of A. hypogaea, IpaDur1, an induced allotetraploid (A. ipaensis × A. duranensis)4x and the diploid progenitor species were cytogenetically compared. The karyotypes of the allotetraploids share the number and general morphology of chromosomes; DAPI+ bands pattern and number of 5S rDNA loci. However, one 5S rDNA locus presents a heteromorphic FISH signal in both allotetraploids, relative to corresponding progenitor. Whilst for A. hypogaea the number of 45S rDNA loci was equivalent to the sum of those present in the diploid species, in IpaDur1, two loci have not been detected. Overall distribution of repetitive DNA sequences was similar in both allotetraploids, although A. hypogaea had additional CMA3+ bands and few slight differences in the LTR-retrotransposons distribution compared to IpaDur1. GISH showed that the chromosomes of both allotetraploids had preferential hybridization to their corresponding diploid genomes. Nevertheless, at least one pair of IpaDur1 chromosomes had a clear mosaic hybridization pattern indicating recombination between the subgenomes, clear evidence that the genome of IpaDur1 shows some instability comparing to the genome of A. hypogaea that shows no mosaic of subgenomes, although both allotetraploids derive from the same progenitor species. For some reasons, the chromosome structure of A. hypogaea is inherently more stable, or, it has been at least, partially stabilized through genetic changes and selection

Morpho-agronomic characterization and genetic divergence in lentil genotypes.

The aim of this study was to evaluate 48 lentil inbred lines and one commercial cultivar (Silvina), based on morpho-agronomic traits and to identify genotypes which can be used in a plant breeding program

Analysis of the leaf transcriptome of Musa acuminata during interaction with Mycosphaerella musicola: gene assembly, annotation and marker development.

Background: Although banana (Musa sp.) is an important edible crop, contributing towards poverty alleviation and food security, limited transcriptome datasets are available for use in accelerated molecular-based breeding in this genus. 454 GS-FLX Titanium technology was employed to determine the sequence of gene transcripts in genotypes of Musa acuminata ssp. burmannicoides Calcutta 4 and M. acuminata subgroup Cavendish cv. Grande Naine, contrasting in resistance to the fungal pathogen Mycosphaerella musicola, causal organism of Sigatoka leaf spot disease. To enrich for transcripts under biotic stress responses, full length-enriched cDNA libraries were prepared from whole plant leaf materials, both uninfected and artificially challenged with pathogen conidiospores. Results: The study generated 846,762 high quality sequence reads, with an average length of 334 bp and totaling 283 Mbp. De novo assembly generated 36,384 and 35,269 unigene sequences for M. acuminata Calcutta 4 and Cavendish Grande Naine, respectively. A total of 64.4% of the unigenes were annotated through Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) similarity analyses against public databases. Assembled sequences were functionally mapped to Gene Ontology (GO) terms, with unigene functions covering a diverse range of molecular functions, biological processes and cellular components. Genes from a number of defense-related pathways were observed in transcripts from each cDNA library. Over 99% of contig unigenes mapped to exon regions in the reference M. acuminata DH Pahang whole genome sequence. A total of 4068 genic-SSR loci were identified in Calcutta 4 and 4095 in Cavendish Grande Naine. A subset of 95 potential defense-related gene-derived simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci were validated for specific amplification and polymorphism across M. acuminata accessions. Fourteen loci were polymorphic, with alleles per polymorphic locus ranging from 3 to 8 and polymorphism information content ranging from 0.34 to 0.82. Conclusions: A large set of unigenes were characterized in this study for both M. acuminata Calcutta 4 and Cavendish Grande Naine, increasing the number of public domain Musa ESTs. This transcriptome is an invaluable resource for furthering our understanding of biological processes elicited during biotic stresses in Musa. Gene-based markers will facilitate molecular breeding strategies, forming the basis of genetic linkage mapping and analysis of quantitative trait loci

Federalism and decentralization: Impact on International and Brazilian Health Policies

This article discusses the implications of decentralization in the light of international and Brazilian federalism, and its effects on public health policy. In a comparative analysis among countries, the authors find there is no single model; rather, each country has a unique structure of institutions and norms that have important implications for the operation of its health system. Brazil shares some similarities with other countries that have adopted a decentralized system and is assuming features ever closer to U.S. federalism, with a complex web of relationships. The degree of inequality among Brazilian municipalities and states, along with the budgetary imbalances caused by the minimal levels of resource utilization, undermines Brazil's constitutional principles and, consequently, its federalism. To ensure the constitutional mandate in Brazil, it is essential, as in other countries, to create a stable source of funds and increase the volume and efficiency of spending. Also important are investing in the training of managers, improving information systems, strengthening the principles of autonomy and interdependence, and defining patterns of cooperation within the federation

Gene expression revealed during the interaction of resistant Arachis stenosperma and Meloidogyne arenaria.

The plant-parasitic root-knot nematodes have evolved sophisticated strategies for exploiting plants with high impacts in agriculture worldwide. The wild species Arachis stenosperma shows high levels of resistance to M. arenaria and other parasites. A genome-wide overview of differential gene expression during this plant?nematode interaction at different time points (3, 6 and 9 DAI)and healthy roots was conducted using Illumina Hi-Seq 2000. Eight cDNA libraries produced a total of 38´241´633 reads with an average sequence size of 200 bp and were assembled into 44,133 contigs. These unique sequences were grouped into eight clusters corresponding to their expression profile estimated by RPKM values. We found that a comparable number of genes were up- and down-regulated during the resistance response and genes belonging to the same family were often differentially regulated. Defencerelated genes (calmodulin, patatin, DC1, RGAs and PR), transcription factors and components of hormonal signaling pathways (ARP, CKX) were further characterized using qRT-PCR for validation of their expression profile. This study aimed to characterize genes regulated during early response of resistant Arachis to M. arenaria, which in association with gene-expression analysis at the cellular level, in planta gene function validation and biochemical data, will provide a set of candidate genes for plant transformation aiming nematode resistance in peanut