Comparações produtiva, econômica e energética de sistemas convencional, orgânico e biodinâmico de cultivo de batata-doce (Ipomoea batatas)

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Energia na Agricultura) - FCA

Stability of Carotenoids, Total Phenolics and In Vitro Antioxidant Capacity in the Thermal Processing of Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) Cultivars Grown in Brazil

Intervention strategies regarding the biofortification of orange-fleshed sweet potato, which is a rich source of carotenoids for combating vitamin A deficiency, are being developed in Brazil. This study was conducted to evaluate the concentrations of individual carotenoids, total phenolic compounds and antioxidant capacity in the roots of four biofortified sweet potato cultivars that were raw or processed by four common heat treatments. HPLC, Folin-Ciocalteu, DPPH and ABTS assays were used. All cultivars showed high levels of carotenoids in raw roots, predominantly all-trans-beta-carotene (79.1-128.5 mg.100 g(-1) DW), suggesting a high estimated vitamin A activity. The CNPH 1194 cultivar reported carotenoids values highest than those of other cultivars (p < 0.05). The total phenolic compounds varied among cultivars and heat treatments (0.96-2.05 mg.g(-1) DW). In most cases, the heat treatments resulted in a significant decrease in the carotenoids and phenolic compounds contents as well as antioxidant capacity. Processing of flour presented the greatest losses of major carotenoids and phenolics. The phenolic compounds showed more stability than carotenoids after processing. There were significant correlations between the carotenoids and phenolic compounds and the antioxidant capacity.

甘薯体细胞胚胎发生和原生质体培养及转化的研究

甘薯[Ipomoea batatm L.]胚性愈伤组织的诱导、生长及分化，受遗传背景、外植体来源、激素配比等多种因素的影响。以徐薯l8叶片为外植体，在Ms附加2mg／l2.4-D的培养基上，诱导、筛选出三种类型的愈伤组织（I型、Ⅱ型、IV型），虽然其来源和培养条件相同，但在外部形态、内部结构、分化途径、分化能力、同工酶酶谱、可溶性蛋白质组成以及DNA分子结构方面，都有显著差异。I型愈伤组织在Ms无激素培养基上分化出体细胞胚，其过氧化物酶及脂酶同工酶与Ⅱ型愈伤组织和lV型愈伤组织相比，酶带的数目、深浅不同，而与胚状体相类似，可以作为不回类型愈伤组织及其分化途径的生理指标。SDS-PAGE电泳分析表明：三种愈伤组织的总蛋白组成也有显著差异。I型愈伤组织与Ⅱ型愈伤组织相比，无论是酶带的数目，还是酶带的扫描高度，都占绝对优势，表明其具有相对较高的蛋白质合成代谢水平。RAPD分析表明，三种类型愈伤组织的遗传基础具有一定差异。在所用的10个随机引物中，引物G3(GAGCCCTCCA)扩增出了显著的多态性，在I型愈伤组织与胚状体中发现两个特异片段，有可能与体细胞胚胎发生过程特异相关。 以I型愈伤组织进行悬浮培养，建立了具有再生能力的胚性悬浮细胞系，并对其鲜重、干重、PCV体积、PH值等生长特性进行了测定，研究了在悬浮培养条件下，2.4-D浓度对体细胞胚胎发生的影响。在MS附加Img/12.4-D的培养基中，细胞呈园球型，细胞质浓厚，细胞核显著，分裂旺盛，转入不含2.4-D的分化培养基中，即可得到大量的游离胚状体：浓度过高（4-8mg／l���或过低（0.5mg/l���，都不利于细胞的生长和分化。胞外同工酶研究发现：胞外过氧化物酶水平，随着2.4-D浓度升高、培养时间的延长、细胞生长速度的减缓而降低，随着体胚分化的开始而升高。这种变化趋势表明：2.4-D浓度、过氧化物酶及细胞的生长、分化之间，存在密切联系。蛋白质分析发现，2.4-D的浓度与细胞内可溶性蛋白质组成及含量也密切相关：在无激素培养基中的培养物，其蛋白质电泳图谱与在含有不同浓度2.4-D的培养基中的培养物相比，无论是谱带的数目还是谱带的峰值，都有深刻差异，表明在体胚分化和发育过程中，细胞内进行着旺盛的蛋白质合成代谢。 以胚性悬浮细胞为材料，进行原生质体培养。通过对游离条件的比较研究，发现采用PH值为6.0的E3酶液酶解2小时，可以得到大量具有旺盛活力的原生质体。采用液体浅层一固体平板双层培养方式进行培养，原生质体分裂旺盛，20天后形成肉眼可见的微型愈伤组织，在附加0.5mg/1 2.4-D的继代培养基中，出现根的分化，转入附加0.5mg/12.4-D和Img/16-BA的分化培养基中，有少量不定芽发生，并形成小苗，但无胚状体产生。 以来源于胚性悬浮细胞的原生质体为受体，通过与农杆菌共培养，将苏云金杆菌毒蛋白(Bt)基因导入甘薯细胞，经卡那霉素筛选，得到抗性愈伤组织，并有根的分化。经过PCR检测，证明了Bt基因在甘薯细胞染色体组中的整合。

干旱和复水条件下转基因甘薯的光合特性

以转铜锌超氧化物歧化酶(Cu/Zn SOD)和抗坏血酸过氧化物酶(APX)基因甘薯(TS)及未转基因甘薯(NT)为实验材料,研究在旱后复水条件下转基因甘薯及未转基因甘薯抗氧化酶活性和光合特性变化。结果显示,连续36 h胁迫条件下,TS和NT的SOD活性都先降低后升高,但TS的SOD活性始终高于NT。胁迫至24 h时,TS的SOD活性约为NT的1.2倍,复水后二者SOD活性都下降。持续胁迫,TS的APX活性先升高后降低,NT与之相反,复水后TS和NT的APX活性都是先升高后降低,复水12 h,TS的APX活性是NT的1.5倍。水分胁迫条件下TS的膜质受伤害程度要轻于NT,胁迫24 h,复水12 h,NT的MDA含量均约为TS的1.2倍。胁迫12 h,TS和NT净光合速率都下降,继续胁迫,TS净光合速率开始上升,NT几乎保持不变,胁迫36 h,TS的净光合速率约为NT的1.5倍。复水后二者净光合速率都开始上升,复水12 h,TS净光合速率约为NT的3倍。胁迫时TS、NT胞间CO2浓度(Ci)都逐渐增大,胁迫36 h时NT胞间CO2浓度显著高于TS,是其1.4倍。实验结果表明,同时转入SOD、APX抗氧化基因后,在...

Antioxidant and phenolic compounds in sweet potato peels and leaves: food applications and health benefits

Tese de doutoramento, Ciências Biotecnol��gicas (Biotecnologia Alimentar), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, 2014

An improved methodology for the recovery of Zea mays and other large crop pollen, with implications for environmental archaeology in the Neotropics

We present a simple sieving methodology to aid the recovery of large cultigen pollen grains, such as maize (Zea mays L.), manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz), and sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.), among others, for the detection of food production using fossil pollen analysis of lake sediments in the tropical Americas. The new methodology was tested on three large study lakes located next to known and/or excavated pre-Columbian archaeological sites in South and Central America. Five paired samples, one treated by sieving, the other prepared using standard methodology, were compared for each of the three sites. Using the new methodology, chemically digested sediment samples were passed through a 53 µm sieve, and the residue was retained, mounted in silicone oil, and counted for large cultigen pollen grains. The filtrate was mounted and analysed for pollen according to standard palynological procedures. Zea mays (L.) was recovered from the sediments of all three study lakes using the sieving technique, where no cultigen pollen had been previously recorded using the standard methodology. Confidence intervals demonstrate there is no significant difference in pollen assemblages between the sieved versus unsieved samples. Equal numbers of exotic Lycopodium spores added to both the filtrate and residue of the sieved samples allow for direct comparison of cultigen pollen abundance with the standard terrestrial pollen count. Our technique enables the isolation and rapid scanning for maize and other cultigen pollen in lake sediments, which, in conjunction with charcoal and pollen records, is key to determining land-use patterns and the environmental impact of pre-Columbian societies.

Resistência de cultivares de batata-doce a Euscepes postfasciatus Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Foram estudadas 40 cultivares de batata-doce Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lamarck, objetivando avaliar a resistência ao ataque da broca Euscepes postfasciatus Fairmaire. Numa primeira fase da pesquisa foi medida a atratividade, a não-preferência para alimentação e oviposição em ramas e raízes. Dos resultados foram escolhidas oito cultivares resistentes e duas suscetíveis. Numa segunda fase utilizaram-se raízes das cultivares escolhidas para estudar a resistência a E. postfasciatus. Ramas e raízes foram oferecidas a adultos da broca em arenas com livre chance de escolha, com seis repetições. As avaliações foram feitas aos 5, 10, 30, 60 min., 3h e 24h após a liberação. O melhor tamanho de rama, entre os testados, a ser utilizado foi o de 35 cm. Os adultos da broca ao serem liberados nas arenas, dirigiram-se rapidamente para o material e atacaram as mais atrativas, prioritariamente nos ramos mais grossos ou na inserção das folhas. As cultivares com ramas menos atrativas foram: Rocha da Paz, Mineira, Lagartixa e Bom Nome, sendo que os tubérculos das cultivares Lagartixa e Bom Nome também foram menos danificados e juntamente com Caboatã, não preferidas para oviposição. As raízes e ramas das cultivares Granfina e UFRPE foram as mais atrativas e as mais danificadas portanto devem ser evitadas, enquanto que as cultivares Lagartixa e Bom Nome devem ser recomendadas pelo seu melhore desempenho.

Manejo da adubação nitrogenada paraa batata-doce: fontes e parcelamento de aplicação

Com o objetivo de avaliar o rendimento da batata-doce [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.], cultivar Rainha Branca, submetida a fontes e parcelamentos da aplicação de 80 kg ha-1 de nitrogênio, instalou-se um experimento, no período de abril a agosto de 2007, na Universidade Federal da Paraíba, em Areia. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi o de blocos casualizados, em esquema fatorial 2 x 7, com duas fontes de nitrogênio (uréia e sulfato de amônio) e oito de épocas parcelamentos da aplicação (100% no plantio; 100% aos 30 dias após o plantio (DAP); 100% aos 60 DAP; 50% no plantio e 50% aos 30 DAP; 50% no plantio e 50% aos 60 DAP; 50% aos 30 e 50% aos 60 DAP; 33% no plantio, 33% aos 30 e 33% aos 60 DAP), com quatro repetições. Foram avaliados o peso médio de raízes comerciais, a produção e o número de raízes comerciais por planta e as produtividades total e comercial de raízes de batatadoce. O maior peso médio de raízes comerciais (294 g) foi obtido com o parcelamento do N, como uréia, 50% no plantio e 50% aos 30 DAP. O parcelamento de N 33% no plantio, 33% aos 30 DAP e 33% aos 60 DAP na forma sulfato de amônio foi responsável pela maior produção de raízes comerciais por planta (337 g). Para o número de raízes comercias e as produtividades total e comercial, o N na forma de sulfato de amônio parcelado 33% no plantio, 33% aos 30 DAP e 33% aos 60 DAP proporcionou os maiores valores, 1,50 raízes, 30,5 e 28,4 t ha-1, respectivamente.

Polyphenol oxidase from sweet potato: Purification and properties

Polyphenol oxidase (PPO, EC 1.14.18.1) extracted from sweet potato root [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] was purified 189-fold by precipitation with ammonium sulfate and elution from columns of Sephadex G-25, DEAE-cellulose, and Sephadex G-100. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the purified preparation revealed that PPO was highly purified by the procedure adopted. The purified enzyme had an estimated molecular weight of 96 000 and Km values of 26, 8, 5, and 96 mM for 4-methylcatechol, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, and catechol, respectively. The optimum pH varies from about 4.0 to 6.5, depending on the substrate. PPO activity was inhibited by p-coumaric and cinnamic acids, sodium metabisulfite, dithioerythritol, ascorbic acid, L-lysine, D-phenylalanine, L-methionine, glycine, L-isoleucine, and L-glutamine. Heat inactivation between 60 and 80 °C was biphasic. Sucrose, (NH4)2SO4, NaCl, and KCl appeared to be protective agents of sweet potato PPO against thermal denaturation. © 1992 American Chemical Society.

Produção e qualidade de batata-doce em função das doses e parcelamento da adubação potássica

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Effects of sodium on potassium nutrition in three tropical root crop species

The potassium (K) nutrition and high K requirement of tropical root crops may be affected by their sodium (Na) status, as has been observed in a number of plant species. Solution culture was used to study the effects of K and Na supplies in tannia [Xanthosoma sagittifolium (L.) Schott.], sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] and taro [Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott]. At low K supply, Na ameliorated symptoms of K deficiency and increased growth in tannia, and to a lesser extent in sweetpotato, but not in taro. None of the species responded to Na at adequate K supply. Differences in response to Na were attributed to differences in Na translocation to plant tops. At maximum Na supply, the Na concentration in index leaves averaged 1.82% in tannia, 0.205% in sweetpotato, and 0.0067% in taro. An increase in the supply of Na resulted in a shift in the critical K concentration for deficiency (i.e., 90% of maximum yield) in index leaves from 2.9% to 1.2% in tannia, and from 4.8% to 2.5% in sweetpotato. The critical K concentration in taro was 3.3%, irrespective of Na supply. To overcome the problem in tannia and sweetpotato of determining the critical concentration relevant to a leaf sample of unknown K status, a relationship was established for each species relating the critical K concentration to the concentration of Na in the index leaves.

Primer registro de Helcystogramma sp.(Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) en Cuba.

Helcystogramma sp., es una nueva especie de microlepidóptero que afecta desde la siembra hasta la cosecha del boniato o camote (Ipomoea batatas L. Lam.) en Cuba. Debido a la falta de conocimientos y a la escasa bibliografía relacionada con las especies del género Helcystogramma en nuestro país, nos propusimos como objetivo conocer aspectos bio-ecol��gicos de este microlepidóptero, con la finalidad de proporcionar nuevos conocimientos para un futuro manejo de esta plaga. El trabajo se realizó desde septiembre 2013 a septiembre de 2014, en el Instituto de Investigaciones de Viandas Tropicales (INIVIT), Santo Domingo, Villa Clara, Cuba. Los insectos se estudiaron por observación directa en campos de I. batatas. La larva de este microlepidóptero es muy ágil, dobla la hoja, la cual pega con hilos de seda, creando una protección para su desarrollo hasta el estado de pupa, se alimenta dentro de esta cavidad a partir de la misma hoja, sin afectar la epidermis inferior. Sus poblaciones han aumentado considerablemente, llegando a 20 larvas/m2 en verano. La especies Helcystogramma sp., se cita por primera vez para Cuba y además se registra como una nueva especie de insecto que se alimenta del boniato. ABSTRACT. Primer registro de Helcystogramma sp. (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) en Cuba. Helcystogramma sp. is a new species of microlepidoptera affecting from planting to sweet potato (I. batatas L. Lam.) harvest crop in Cuba. Due to the lack of knowledgze and limited literature relate with the Helcystogramma genus in our country, the goal of this study was to know the bioecological aspects of such microlepidoptera, in order to provide new insights for future management of this pest. The study was conducted from September 2013 to September 2014 at the Research Institute of Tropical Root and Tuber Crops, Bananas and Plantains (INIVIT), Santo Domingo, Villa Clara, Cuba. Insects were studied by direct observation in sweet potato (I. batatas) fields. The microlepidoptera larvae is very agile, folds the sheet which sticks with silk threads, creating a protection for its development to the pupal stage. The larvae will feed in the cavity from the same leaf without affecting the lower epidermis. Their populations have increased significantly, reaching 20 larvae / m2 in summer. The species Helcystogramma sp., is cited for the first time in Cuba and it is reported as a new species of insect that feeds on sweet potato leaves.

FIELD TOLERANCE OF SELECTED VARIETIES TO AND FUNGICIDE EFFICACY AGAINST ALTERNARIA BLIGHT OF SWEET POTATO

Alternaria blight (AB) of sweet potato ( Ipomoea batatas L. ), caused by Alternaria spp., was recently reported in South Africa, but is common in southern and eastern Africa. Elsewhere in the world, AB is controlled primarily using resistant varieties. Twenty-five sweet potato varieties/breeding lines, from different origins were assessed for tolerance to AB. The materials were planted in fields having a history of AB disease and rated for tolerance based on a General Disease Index (GDI), with the lowest scores representing tolerance, and the higher scores representing susceptibility. Variety 199062-1 had the lowest GDI value, and was the most tolerant to AB; while W119 had the highest GDI value and was the most susceptible to the disease. Other varieties/breeding lines showed a variation in GDI values between most tolerant and most susceptible. Among the fungicides tested under field conditions, the mixture azoxystrobin-difenoconazole was the most effective in reducing AB intensity. Fungicides pyraclostrobin-boscalid, unizeb, azoxystrobin-chlorothalonil and cymoxanil-mancozeb were also effective against the disease.

Cucumber mosaic virus infection of kava (Piper methysticum) and implications for cultural control of kava dieback disease

Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) was found by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to be not fully systemic in naturally infected kava (Piper methysticum) plants in Fiji. Twenty-six of 48 samples (54%) from various tissues of three recently infected plants were CMV-positive compared with 7/51 samples (14%) from three long-term infections (plants affected by dieback for more than 1 year). The virus was also found to have a limited ability to move into newly formed stems. CMV was detected in only 2/23 samples taken from re-growth stems arising from known CMV infected/dieback affected plants. Mechanical inoculation experiments conducted in Fiji indicate that the known kava intercrop plants banana (Musa spp.), pineapple (Ananas comosus), peanut (Arachis hypogaea) and the common weed Mikania micrantha are potential hosts for a dieback-causing strain of CMV It was not possible to transmit the virus mechanically to the common kava intercrop plants taro (Colocasia esculenta), Xanthosoma sp., sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), yam (Dioscorea alata), papaya (Carica papaya) or the weed Momordica charantia. Implications of the results of this research on a possible integrated disease management strategy are discussed.

The Significance of Wild Plants in the Evolutionary Ecology of Three Major Viruses Infecting Cultivated Sweetpotato in Uganda

The studies presented in this thesis contribute to the understanding of evolutionary ecology of three major viruses threatening cultivated sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas Lam) in East Africa: Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV; genus Potyvirus; Potyviridae), Sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus (SPCSV; genus Crinivirus; Closteroviridae) and Sweet potato mild mottle virus (SPMMV; genus Ipomovirus; Potyviridae). The viruses were serologically detected and the positive results confirmed by RT-PCR and sequencing. SPFMV was detected in 24 wild plant species of family Convolvulacea (genera Ipomoea, Lepistemon and Hewittia), of which 19 species were new natural hosts for SPFMV. SPMMV and SPCSV were detected in wild plants belonging to 21 and 12 species (genera Ipomoea, Lepistemon and Hewittia), respectively, all of which were previously unknown to be natural hosts of these viruses. SPFMV was the most abundant virus being detected in 17% of the plants, while SPMMV and SPCSV were detected in 9.8% and 5.4% of the assessed plants, respectively. Wild plants in Uganda were infected with the East African (EA), common (C), and the ordinary (O) strains, or co-infected with the EA and the C strain of SPFMV. The viruses and virus-like diseases were more frequent in the eastern agro-ecological zone than the western and central zones, which contrasted with known incidences of these viruses in sweetpotato crops, except for northern zone where incidences were lowest in wild plants as in sweetpotato. The NIb/CP junction in SPMMV was determined experimentally which facilitated CP-based phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses of SPMMV. Isolates of all the three viruses from wild plants were genetically similar to those found in cultivated sweetpotatoes in East Africa. There was no evidence of host-driven population genetic structures suggesting frequent transmission of these viruses between their wild and cultivated hosts. The p22 RNA silencing suppressor-encoding sequence was absent in a few SPCSV isolates, but regardless of this, SPCSV isolates incited sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) in sweetpotato plants co-infected with SPFMV, indicating that p22 is redundant for synergism between SCSV and SPFMV. Molecular evolutionary analysis revealed that isolates of strain EA of SPFMV that is largely restricted geographically in East Africa experience frequent recombination in comparison to isolates of strain C that is globally distributed. Moreover, non-homologous recombination events between strains EA and C were rare, despite frequent co-infections of these strains in wild plants, suggesting purifying selection against non-homologous recombinants between these strains or that such recombinants are mostly not infectious. Recombination was detected also in the 5 - and 3 -proximal regions of the SPMMV genome providing the first evidence of recombination in genus Ipomovirus, but no recombination events were detected in the characterized genomic regions of SPCSV. Strong purifying selection was implicated on evolution of majority of amino acids of the proteins encoded by the analyzed genomic regions of SPFMV, SPMMV and SPCSV. However, positive selection was predicted on 17 amino acids distributed over the whole the coat protein (CP) in the globally distributed strain C, as compared to only 4 amino acids in the multifunctional CP N-terminus (CP-NT) of strain EA largely restricted geographically to East Africa. A few amino acid sites in the N-terminus of SPMMV P1, the p7 protein and RNA silencing suppressor proteins p22 and RNase3 of SPCSV were also submitted to positive selection. Positively selected amino acids may constitute ligand-binding domains that determine interactions with plant host and/or insect vector factors. The P1 proteinase of SPMMV (genus Ipomovirus) seems to respond to needs of adaptation, which was not observed with the helper component proteinase (HC-Pro) of SPMMV, although the HC-Pro is responsible for many important molecular interactions in genus Potyvirus. Because the centre of origin of cultivated sweetpotato is in the Americas from where the crop was dispersed to other continents in recent history (except for the Australasia and South Pacific region), it would be expected that identical viruses and their strains occur worldwide, presuming virus dispersal with the host. Apparently, this seems not to be the case with SPMMV, the strain EA of SPFMV and the strain EA of SPCSV that are largely geographically confined in East Africa where they are predominant and occur both in natural and agro-ecosystems. The geographical distribution of plant viruses is constrained more by virus-vector relations than by virus-host interactions, which in accordance of the wide range of natural host species and the geographical confinement to East Africa suggest that these viruses existed in East African wild plants before the introduction of sweetpotato. Subsequently, these studies provide compelling evidence that East Africa constitutes a cradle of SPFMV strain EA, SPCSV strain EA, and SPMMV. Therefore, sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) in East Africa may be one of the examples of damaging virus diseases resulting from exchange of viruses between introduced crops and indigenous wild plant species. Keywords: Convolvulaceae, East Africa, epidemiology, evolution, genetic variability, Ipomoea, recombination, SPCSV, SPFMV, SPMMV, selection pressure, sweetpotato, wild plant species Author s Address: Arthur K. Tugume, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Latokartanonkaari 7, P.O Box 27, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland. Email: tugume.arthur@helsinki.fi Author s Present Address: Arthur K. Tugume, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda. Email: aktugume@botany.mak.ac.ug, tugumeka@yahoo.com