Contribution of the institutions in the Northern region of Brazil to the development of plant cultivars and their impact on agriculture

• Autor(a) principal: Souza,Aparecida das Graças Claret de
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Sousa,Nelcimar Reis, Lopes,Ricardo, Atroch,André Luiz, Barcelos,Edson, Cordeiro,Everton, Oliveira,Maria do Socorro Padilha de, Alves,Rafael Moisés, Farias Neto,João Toé de, Noda,Hiroshi, Silva Filho,Danilo F, Yuyama,Kaoru, Almeida,Caio Márcio Vasconcellos Cordeiro de, Lopes,Maria Teresa Gomes, Ohashi,Selma Toyoko
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-70332012000500006
• topic: Plant breeding; Amazon region; native species

This paper describes the development of breeding programs in northern Brazil and their main impacts on agriculture. Their contribution to the breeding of the species palm oil, acai fruit, cacao, cupuaçu, guarana, tomato, camu-camu, cocona, peach palm, and rubber was laid out in detail. Advances in breeding programs of institutions such as Embrapa, Ceplac, Inpa, and Universities require investments in infrastructure and in human and financial resources to ensure continuity and efficiency in economic, social and environmental gains. The improvement of native species, the main focus of the breeding programs of the institutions in the Northern region of Brazil, is a form of exploiting the Amazonian biodiversity for the benefit of society. Therefore, policies to foster research institutions should be a subject of deliberation and action of the scientific and technological community in Brazil.