Golden mosaic of common beans in Brazil: management with a transgenic approach.

Common bean and its importance for the brazilian population. Golden mosaic of common beans (Bean golden mosaic virus). The BGMV whitefly vector: Bemisia tabaci. Breeding for BGMV resistant varieties. The development of a BGMV-Resistant common bean transgenic event. Other whitefly-transmitted viruses reported on common beans in Brazil. Whitefly-borne disease and insect management. Future perspectives.

Biological control of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on beans in field by Trichoderma asperellum and Clonostachys rosea.

2009

Uma experiência de consulta a setores de interesse no caso do feijão transgênico.

2009

A review of maize-beans and maize-cowpea intercrop systems in the semiarid Northeast Brazil.

Fifty-one experiments on maize -beans and 34 on maize-cowpea intercropping systems conducted mostly in semiarid Northeast Brazil were analysed to get an understanding of the performance of these intercrops in terms of their productivity as well as stability. Both the intercrop systems produced higher yields over their respective sole crops under a wide range of agroclimates; the average advantage with maize-beans was 32%, while that from maize-cowpea was 41%. The optimum row proportion for maize-beans was one maize: three beans, requiring 59% of sole crop maize population and 75% sole bean population. In maize-cowpea, alternate rows or one maize: two cowpea arrangement with about 50% of sole maize density and 100% of sole cowpea population seemed to be optimum. The intercrops failed less frequently compared to sole crops to meet specified incomes or yields. Sorghum seemed to be a good alternative to the traditional cereal because of its improved and consistent performance. Future research needs are discussed for further yield improvement in these two intercrop system.s

Is there hope for BNF in common beans?

Although since 1984 there are Rhizobium strains available for common bean inoculation in Brazil, a survey in 2014 showed that only 15% of the Brazilian farmers adopt inoculation as a routine practice. Part of this disbelief in relation to common beans inoculation can be attributed to the fact that supposedly, bean inoculation would not be able to support increased yield levels in high-tech farms, being appropriate only for small farms. A series of demonstration units carried out since 2012, under farm conditions in the Cerrado region, have showed that a 10.8% mean increase in yield were obtained only with inoculation in relation to the treatment without inoculation and without nitrogen fertilization (whose average yield was 3163 kg ha-1). It was also found that inoculation with supplementation of 60 kg ha-1 of N promoted yield levels (4010 kg ha-1) higher than those with 120 kg ha-1 N as urea (3411 kg ha-1).

Resistance of Bt transgenic maize to lesser cornstalk borer (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae).

To determine if Bt maize seedlings are protected against lesser cornstalk borer damage, Bt hybrids at the 3 and 4 leaf stages were tested under temperatures between 20-32oC and artificial infestation. A high level of resistance was reported in all Bt maize as expressed by larval survival, larval weight, damage score, and number of surviving plants. All Bt maize protected plants against lesser cornstalk borer damage. Also, the resistance present in the Bt maize was not affected by daytime temperature.

Growth analysis of early genotypes of common beans.

The aim of this study was to characterize the agronomic performance of three elite genotypes of common bean with early cycle by growth analysis technique.

Microbial activities in soils cultivated with transgenic maize expressing Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1 Ab and Cry1 F genes.

A área brasileira plantada com milho geneticamente modificado (GM) expressando genes Cry derivados da bactéria do solo Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) aumentou de 4,9% (5,0 milhões de hectares) da área total plantada em 2009 para 81,4% (15,83 milhões de hectares) em 2014. No entanto, estudos sobre os efeitos da tecnologia Bt-milho sobre microrganismos não alvo em solos tropicais são incipientes. Dessa forma, foi realizado experimento de campo para avaliar a atividade fisiológica das comunidades bacterianas associadas com genótipos de milho Bt plantados em Latossolo Vermelho Escuro do Cerrado e solos hidromórficos da planície com inundações localizadas. Um híbrido não transgênico (30F35) e seus homólogos transgênicos 30F35Y (Cry1Ab) e 30F35H (Cry1F) foram plantados com delineamento de blocos casualizados com quatro repetições. Solos rizosféricos e não rizosféricos coletados de plantas no estádio de florescimento foram submetidos aos ensaios de diversidade metabólica com Biolog e atividades enzimáticas de urease, arginase, fosfatase ácida e fosfatase alcalina. Solos rizosféricos apresentaram maior atividade microbiana e não foram detectadas diferenças significativas entre os genótipos em todos os parâmetros bioquímicos e de solo avaliados. Os resultados sugerem que o milho Bt não afeta negativamente a comunidade microbiana dos solos tropicais.

Biological control of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on beans in field by Trichoderma asperellum and Clonostachys rosea.

2008

Creolo beans production systems in Juruá valley, Acre, Brazilian Amazon.

The Juruá valley mesoregion is recognized for its diversity of cultivars of common beans and cowpea and is an important center for on farm bean conservation in Brazil. However, there is little information about production systems of Creoles cultivars and, in this approach, the study aimed to identify the production centers and to gather information about beans production systems. Thirty eight farmers and five merchants were interviewed using semi-structured questionnaries. Juruá valley farmers use three beans production systems: "beach farming", "slash burn system" and "stuffy farming". The systems use family labor with low dependence on external inputs, two classified as itinerant. The study identified two beans production centers: Alto Juruá extractive reserve and Santa Luzia directed settlement project.

Overexpression and characterization of rice Phosphorus-Starvation Tolerance 1 gene and its sorghum and maize homologs in transgenic tobacco.

2016