Expanding knowledge and use of natural variability to meet current planting demands and future cultivar development

This activity is part of the panel: Pioneering Variability: Germplasm, Genetics, and Breeding for Sustainable Macaúba Production.

Objective: The panel aims to explore the latest developments in germplasm, genetics, and macaúba breeding research. Focusing on sustainability, the panel will discuss innovative strategies to explore natural diversity and optimize desirable characteristics of macaúba, promoting greater efficiency in production. Additionally, challenges and opportunities for advancing the domestication of major macaúba species, with the development of varieties that contribute to sustainable and ecologically balanced production, will be discussed.

Carlos Augusto Colombo – Researcher at the Agronomic Institute of Campinas (IAC)

9:40 – 9:50 am – Discussant 1 - Sérgio Yoshimitsu Motoike - Full professor, Phytotechnics and Plant Breeding, Oil palms (UFV)

9:50 – 10:00 am – Discussant 2 – Dagoberto Arias Aguilar - Forest Engineering, Professor and Researcher (TEC, Costa Rica)

10:00 – 10:10 am – Discussant 3 Felipe Morbi - Co-Founder & General Vice President (Soleum)

10:30 – 10:40 am – Discussant 4 – Maria Imaculada Zucchi - Researcher, Postgraduate Professor, Population Genomics, Next Generation Sequencing, Computational Biology (APTA Regional/UNICAMP)

10:40 – 11:00 am – Discussion/Debate