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| This is a Co-financed Project (Edictal CAPES/Embrapa n° 15/2014), conducted with the partnership between the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) - Capão do Leão Campus, the leader institution, and Embrapa Trigo, the partner. Its main objective is the training of human resources (master, doctorate, and postdoctorate) to act on the cereal science and technological area, through the wheat technological quality evaluation as for structural, functional and technological characteristics, promoting k ... Status: Completed Start date: Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| raditional breeding has generated significant genetic gain over time. However, this strategy falls short of yielding information on the biological processes involved. Additionally, there are great difficulties for the genetic improvement of characteristics which are measured solely in one gender and/or late in the life span of the animal. With the development of DNA chips it became possible maximizing genetic gain by reducing the generation interval and increasing the intensity of selection. The Status: Completed Start date: Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| This project proposes to develop selected pure lineages of maternal traits for high reproduction performance, weight gain, longevity and functional structure: selected pure lineages of terminal paternal traits for high performance, weight gain, food conversion and meat quality; and to define usage strategies to optimize genetic material (crossbreeding to form matrices and slaughter animals) with this material's cost reduction to producers. The strategy is to develop technical cooperation contrac Status: Completed Start date: Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| The recent expansion of sugarcane's culture by the mid-southern states of Brazil (Paraná, São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais - except the north, and Goiás), has been mostly happening on areas where degraded grasslands occur, characterized by eroded soils which are poor in nutrients, under distinct hydric regimes in regions of traditional sugarcane production. The incorporation of these flat topography areas enables mechanized harvesting and a more intensive soil use, with the eliminatio ... Status: Completed Start date: Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| Brazil is the world's third largest fruit producer. Great part of this production is commercialized within the internal market, but an important volume can't reach its consumers due to high post-crop losses (30%-40%). The southern region of Brazil is characterized by temperate climate fruit production and commercialization, among which is the peach, apples, strawberries and melons, which are economically and socially important, be it for commercialized volume or job generation, or even for estab Status: Completed Start date: Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| As Brazil increases its production of biodiesel, so does the production of glycerin, a by-product with a high energy value. At the same time, corn, the main energy component in concentrated feeds, in addition to being the ingredient that most increases feed costs, tends to become less available in the market due to its use in the production of alcohol in Europe and the United States. Glycerol, the main component of glycerin, has already been used in some countries, mixed with concentrate for lac Status: Completed Start date: Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| This is a broad research project on Barbados nuts, a crop with potential to become raw material for the production of biodiesel and aviation biokerosene. In spite of its high oil production, the plant has not been totally domesticated yet, that is, there are not different recommended cultivars or production systems for each region of the country yet. In this project, which is partially funded by Finep and CNPq, there are 22 participating research institutions in all Brazilian regions, 16 of whic Status: Completed Start date: Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| Olives and olive oil are products frequently found in Brazilian tables. As a result of the small number of planted areas and insignificant production in Brazil, importing has been an alternative to supply internal demand. In 2007, the country imported US$170 millions in olive oil and US$250 millions in olives, according to data from the Ministry of Development, Industry and International Commerce. Researches carried out by Epamig, in Maria da Fé - MG, demonstrated the possibility of rational exp ... Status: Completed Start date: Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| This project's goal is to evaluate and quantify the impacts caused by global climate changes in Brazilian's most important economic cultures . For such a purpose, the input database of all the models of all the proposed projects will consist of projections or regional scenarios released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and serve as downscalings of the global climatic scenarios. These regional scenarios will define future agricultural scenarios based in mathematical models Status: Completed Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| Oriental Amazon Embrapa has an ample research history in various native essences of the amazonian ecosystem, including the big leaf mahogany ( Swietenia macrophylla King). However, the formation of a research network focused in studies regarding the interaction between the mahogany shoot borer ( Hypsipyla grandella Zeller), its natural enemies and its most important host remains a demand to be fulfilled. The damage caused by this insect consists of the destruction of the tree's ter ... Status: Completed Start date: Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008 |