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Soybean rust is considered a highly aggressive disease in soybean crops. Most research has focused on obtaining resistant genotypes based on dominant or recessive alleles, which provide vertical resistance. The identification of promising crosses that may be used to develop genotypes with horizontal resistance from IAC 100 may help to increase the longevity of the ... more
An option into guide selection strategies in soybean breeding programs is to investigate associations between the main traits studied by breeders. A question that is faced is the possible influence of genotype x environment (GE) interactions on correlations among traits. Path analysis allows, in addition to measuring correlation, a more detailed study of cause / ... more
We compared two statistical methodologies applied to genetic and genomic analyses of categorical traits. The first one consists of a Bayesian approach to the Bayesian Linear Mixed Model (BLMM), which addresses the statistical problems of genomic prediction. The second methodology, called Bayesian Generalized Linear Mixed Model (BGLMM) is similar, but it is used ... more
Tomatoes are an important crop in Brazil. In advanced stages of breeding programs, the capacity to select or reject tomato lines becomes complex. We selected tomato lines comparing different selection strategies. We evaluated 115 advanced tomato lines from the Tomato Germplasm bank of the Federal University of Uberlândia. The following characteristics were ... more
The umbu tree (Spondias tuberosa) is endemic to the Brazilian semiarid region. This species is not cultivated and commercialized fruits are a result of extrativism; consequently little has been done to develop new and more productive cultivars. Hybrids of different accessions are a result of natural open pollination, so identifying putative male parents ... more
The umbu tree (Spondias tuberosa) is one of the best known plants of the Brazilian semi-arid region; it has great potential for the fruit market due to excellent consumer acceptance. This tree is not presently cultivated; fruit commercialization is based on extrativism. Consequently, there has been little research on the genetics of this species. Our ... more
The species Nicotiana tabacum, known as tobacco, is one of the crops with the highest economic value in the world among non-food species. Since 2000, Brazil has become the world’s second largest tobacco producer. Brazilian production is mainly concentrated in the South region. The main tobacco types are produced in Brazil, such as Dark, which, despite ... more
Orange rust, caused by the fungus Puccinia kuehnii, results in high productivity losses in sugarcane. Selection of resistant genotypes is one of the aims of sugarcane breeding programs. Phenotypic and molecular characterization of the parents of such crosses is essential to obtain superior varieties. We evaluated the reaction to orange rust in the field, ... more
Wheat is considered a basic cereal for civilization with great economic importance for world agriculture. Currently, wheat is planted in the south, southeast and midwest regions of Brazil. Brazilian consumption of wheat will grow in the coming years due to population increase, which will require developing new cultivars for non-tradtional regions. We investigated ... more
The pen shell, Atrina pectinata, is an economically valuable species that is widely distributed along the coastal waters of temperate and tropical areas, mainly growing in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Eight novel microsatellite loci from the genome of A. pectinata were developed using fast isolation by amplified fragment length polymorphism of sequence containing ... more