Coffee is one of the most valuable agricultural commodities and ranks second on international
trade exchanges. The genus Coffea belongs to the Rubiaceae family which includes …

The genus Xanthomonas is a diverse and economically important group of bacterial
phytopathogens, belonging to the γ-subdivision of the Proteobacteria. Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. …

Xylella fastidiosa is a fastidious, xylem-limited bacterium that causes a range of economically
important plant diseases. Here we report the complete genome sequence of X. fastidiosa …

… LM Coutinho stantially affect the nutritional qualities of the soil (Pivello and Coutinho in
press). However, these results should not be extrapolated to other Brazilian cerra dos, since the …

Leptospira species colonize a significant proportion of rodent populations worldwide and
produce life-threatening infections in accidental hosts, including humans. Complete genome …

… Artigo baseado na dissertação de mestrado de LMS Coutinho, apresentada ao Programa
de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, …

To contribute to our understanding of the genome complexity of sugarcane, we undertook a
large-scale expressed sequence tag (EST) program. More than 260,000 cDNA clones were …

Xylella fastidiosa is a xylem-dwelling, insect-transmitted, gamma-proteobacterium that causes
diseases in many plants, including grapevine, citrus, periwinkle, almond, oleander, and …

Genomic structural variation is an important and abundant source of genetic and phenotypic
variation. Here, we describe the first systematic and genome-wide analysis of copy number …

The high numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Brazil have made Latin America an
epicentre of the pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 established sustained transmission in Brazil early in …