ANGELOTTI, F.

FRIGHETTO, R. T. S.

GHINI, R.

HAMADA, E.

TORRE NETO, A.

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Project Climapest - Global climate change impacts on agricultural pests.

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Project Climapest - Global climate change impacts on agriculturalpestsRaquel Ghini'. Emília Hamada'. Francislene Anqelotti", Rosa Toyoko Shiraishi Frighetto' & André Torre Neto"'Embrapa Environment. 2Embrapa Tropical Semi-Arid. 3Embrapa Agricultural Instrumentation.The c1imate change is expected to interfere on the current scenario of pests-plants interactions ofBrazilian agriculture. Therefore. the objective of the present project is to evaluate the impacts ofc1imate change on plant diseases, pests, and weeds of important crops for Brazilian agribusiness.These studies intend a long range results in order to develop adaptation alternatives for the controlof plant diseases, pests and weeds which are likely to predominate in the future c1imate scenarios,as well to support elaboration of public policies. Climapest project was started in January 2009, andis comprised of five Component Projects: 1) technical and financial administration, 2) impacts ofrising atmospheric C02 concentration in two types of facilities (FACE - Free Air Carbon DioxideEnrichment and OTC - Open Top Chambers), 3) impacts of temperature increase, 4) impacts ofUV-B enhancement caused by 03 depletion, under controlled and field environment, over theorganisms and selected crop systems, and 5) simulation studies performed using temporal andgeographic maps of main diseases, arthropod-pests and weeds incidence in the future weatherscenario based on the c1imate variables predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC). The project involves the participation of 134 researchers from 37 institutions,comprising 17 Ernbrapa s Units, 15 universities and research institutions, and 5 private companies,spread throughout ali regions of Brazil in 12 different states. The study encompasses 85 plantdiseases, pests, and weeds among 20 major crops: apple, banana, bean, cassava, castor bean,coconut, coffee, corn, cotton, forage, forest species, grape, mango, orange, palm oil, peach,peanut, rice, soybean and sugar cane. The main results up-to-date are the installation of the firstFACE facility in South America; installation of six OTC experiments throughout the country; facilitiesfor UV-B studies in the field; data about the impacts of high temperature on pests; results abouteffects of increased UV-B radiation on the interaction between pathogens and plants as well theinteraction between insects, plants, and entomopathogens; and maps of potential geographicaldistribution of plant diseases, pests, and weeds of important crops of Brazil in the future c1imate. Formore information, the website ofthe project is:http://www.macroprograma1.cnptia.embrapa.br/c1imapest16International Workshop inClimate Change and AgricultureEmbrapa Agricultural Informatics and Labex USACampinas, São Paulo - BrazilNovember 3-4, 2011OrganizersGiampaolo Oueiroz PellegrinoLadislau Martin NetoLuís Gustavo Barioni

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