Assessment of Gene Flow to Wild Relatives and Nutritional Composition of Sugarcane in Brazil.

ABSTRACT: The commercial release of genetically modified organisms (GMO) requires a prior environmental and human/animal health risk assessment. In Brazil, the National Biotechnology Technical Commission (CTNBio) requires a survey of the area of natural occurrence of wild relatives of the GMO in the Brazilian ecosystems to evaluate the possibility of introgressive hybridization between sexually compatible species. Modern sugarcane cultivars, the focus of this study, derive from a series of hybridization and backcrossing events among Saccharum species. The so-called "Saccharum broad sense" group includes around 40 species from a few genera, including Erianthus, found in various tropical regions, particularly South-Eastern Asia. In Brazil, three native species, originally consider

SUBMITTER: Bressan EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7317034 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature