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The Biotechnology Roadmap for Sugarcane Improvement

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Due to the strategic importance of sugarcane to Brazil, FAPESP, the main São Paulo state research funding agency, launched in 2008 the FAPESP Bioenergy Research Program (BIOEN, http://bioenfapesp.org). BIOEN aims to generate new knowledge and human resources for the improvement of the sugarcane and ethanol industry. As part of the BIOEN program, a Workshop on Sugarcane Improvement was held on March 18th and 19th 2009 in São Paulo, Brazil. The aim of the workshop was to explore present and future challenges for sugarcane improvement and its use as a sustainable bioenergy and biomaterial feedstock. The workshop was divided in four sections that represent important challenges for sugarcane improvement: a) gene discovery and sugarcane genomics, b) transgenics and controlled transgene expression, c) sugarcane physiology (photosynthesis, sucrose metabolism, and drought) and d) breeding and statistical genetics. This report summarizes the roadmap for the improvement of sugarcane.

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Abbreviations

BIOEN:

FAPESP bioenergy research program

EST:

Expressed sequence tag

SUCEST:

The sugarcane EST project

SAS:

Sugarcane assembled sequences

BAC:

Bacterial artificial chromosome

TE:

Transposable element

NADP-ME:

NADP+−malic enzyme

NAD-ME:

NAD+−malic enzyme

PCK:

Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase

MAS:

Marker assisted selection

SNP:

Single nucleotide polymorphism

NGS:

Next generation sequencing

QTL:

Quantitative trait loci

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  1. Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 748, CEP 05508-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Carlos T. Hotta, Carolina G. Lembke & Glaucia M. Souza

  2. Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 277, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Douglas S. Domingues, Edgar A. Ochoa, Guilherme M. Q. Cruz, Augusto César Crivellari, Wanderley D. dos Santos, Amanda P. de Souza, Marcos S. Buckeridge & Marie-Anne Van Sluys

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    Danila M. Melotto-Passarin & Helaine Carrer

  4. Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    Thiago G. Marconi, Melissa O. Santos & Anete P. Souza

  5. Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genética, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, CP 6010, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    Thiago G. Marconi, Melissa O. Santos & Anete P. Souza

  6. Departamento de Genética, Evolução e Bioagentes, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, CEP 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brasil

    Marcelo Mollinari, Gabriel R. A. Margarido, Andrea A. Hoshino & Marcelo Menossi

  7. Departamento de Genética, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de São Paulo, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, SP, Brasil

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Hotta, C.T., Lembke, C.G., Domingues, D.S. et al. The Biotechnology Roadmap for Sugarcane Improvement. Tropical Plant Biol. 3, 75–87 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12042-010-9050-5

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