Herdabilidade e correlações genotípicas de caracteres agronômicos, constituintes da parede celular e sacarificação em cana-de-açúcar

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Baffa, David Carlos Ferreira
• Orientador(a): Barbosa, Marcio Henrique Pereira
• Banca de defesa: Diola, Valdir , Lopes, Francis Julio Fagundes
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Genética e Melhoramento
• Departamento: Genética animal; Genética molecular e de microrganismos; Genética quantitativa; Genética vegetal; Me
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Sacarificação; Lignina; Clone; Análise de trilha; Correlações; Saccharum
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Saccharification; Lignin; Clone; Path analysis; Correlations; Saccharum
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::FITOTECNIA::MELHORAMENTO VEGETAL
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4735

A model of an international energy matrix, ideally based on renewable and cleaner energy regarded to petrol, is justified because of the increasing awareness on the global warming issue. Moreover, researches on biofuel, as an alternative source of energy, are essential to guarantee the current ranking of the Brazilian energy autonomy, in addition to the interest in production of surplus so to guarantee exportation and generation of foreign exchange. Cellulose is the most abundant renewable biomass in the planet, therefore a good energetic alternative to petrol. Sugarcane has 2/3 of its mass in lingocellulosic material, an abundant energetic resource which is not efficiently used by the current technologies, therefore, representing an enormous potential for the production of lingocellulosic ethanol. Cellulose can be hydrolyzed in glucose residuals by enzymatic treatment as well as base of acids. Technically, there are some barriers associated to acid and /or enzymatic hydrolysis which need to be overcome. Considering enzymatic hydrolyses, the reaction takes place in a non-aggressive medium, however it takes a long waiting time (from 60 to 72 hours) to occur and the lignin compound is one of the main obstacles for the enzyme access to the cellulose. Thus, the present work aimed at obtaining progress for researches on cellulosic ethanol from the bagasse and, potentially, from other sugarcane by-products through selection of clones that shows high potential bioconvertibility fibers. The experiment was made up of 286 clones and 2 witnesses (RB867515 and SP80-1842) in 25 blocks. They were selected from 13 families of half-siblings and they were vegetative propagation first generation clones. Accordingly, it was carried out correlations among desirable biochemical and agronomical traits, evaluating the cause and effect relationship on fibers and lignin of the stem. It was also estimated the possibility on defining characters which have to be used to carry out a recurrent selection program on sugarcane aiming at alcohol production. It was selected 10 clones with highest lignin content and 10 clones with the lowest lignin content in the bagasse. Those 20 clones were evaluated for the possibility in obtaining a higher glucose content after enzymatic hydrolysis process for cellulosic alcohol production. It could be observed that the higher the content of lignin in the bagasse, the lower the content of glucose produced at the end of hydrolyzesprocess. It was also observed that hemicellulose is more efficient on the conversion than saccharification. Hemicellulose functions as a positive factor on fermentable sugar production for fermentation, because it breaks down cellulose structure allowing access of the enzymes and because of its rupture it supplies glucose molecules for fermentation. Therefore, selected clones show a high potential use on sugar cane genetic breeding, even though it is still needed phenotypic and gene expression analysis studies, enzymatic quantification and syntheses of metabolic, correlating them to syntheses of lignin.