Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:51:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-01-01; Climate changes are one of the main factors that affect palm trees distribution in the tropics. Among the palm trees with social, economic, and ecological relevance, we highlight the native species, Copernicia alba Morong ex Morong and Britton and Copernicia prunifera (Miller) H. E Moore. An important s...
Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T10:29:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-03-01; Assessing the relative importance of geographical and environmental factors to the spatial distribution of genetic variation can provide information about the processes that maintain genetic variation in natural populations. With a globally wide but very restricted habitat distribution, mangrove trees a...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:35:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); The determination of species limits is key to biology, with practical implications for conservation policy makers, lawyers and ...
Amazonia is a major world centre of plant domestication, but the genetics of domestication remains unclear for most Amazonian crops. Manioc (Manihot esculenta) is the most important staple food crop that originated in this region. Although manioc is relatively well-studied, little is known about the diversification of bitter and sweet landraces and how they were dispersed across Amazonia. We evaluated single nu...
Annatto (Bixa orellana) is a tropical crop native to the Americas with Amazonia as the likely center of origin of domestication. Annatto is important because it produces the dye bixin, which is widely used in the pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic and textile industries. A total of 32 microsatellite loci were isolated from a microsatellite-enriched genomic library, of which 12 polymorphic loci were used to characte...
Although manioc is well adapted to nutrient-poor Oxisols of Amazonia, ethnobotanical observations show that bitter manioc is also frequently cultivated in the highly fertile soils of the floodplains and Amazonian dark earths (ADE) along the middle Madeira River. Because different sets of varieties are grown in each soil type, and there are agronomic similarities between ADE and floodplain varieties, it was hypo...