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Eucalyptus urophylla S.T. Blake is a species of great commercial importance, especially in tropical regions, and it is the main eucalypts species cultivated in Brazil. This study evaluated the genetic diversity among and within seven populations of E. urophylla and estimated the genetic distance between individuals to draw inferences about the genetic structure between and within the sampled populations. For that, 19 microsatellite markers were genotyped in 254 individuals originating from four wild populations, introduced in Brazil, two breeding populations, and one population consisting of commercial clones. The wild populations of E. urophylla introduced in Brazil have high genetic similarity and the few generations of breeding have already generated significant differences in population structure between improved and wild populations. As expected, breeding populations are closer to commercial clones than wild populations. However, compared to wild populations, breeding populations exhibit greater genetic diversity as they originated from a mixture of provenances. The population formed by clones was the only one that showed a negative Wright fixation index, that is, heterozygosity was higher than expected for a population in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
Eucalyptus urophylla S.T. Blake is a species of great commercial importance, especially in tropical regions, and it is the main eucalypts species cultivated in Brazil. This study evaluated the genetic diversity among and within seven populations of E. urophylla and estimated the genetic distance between individuals to draw inferences about the genetic structure between and within the sampled populations. For that, 19 microsatellite markers were genotyped in 254 individuals originating from four wild populations, introduced in Brazil, two breeding populations, and one population consisting of commercial clones. The wild populations of E. urophylla introduced in Brazil have high genetic similarity and the few generations of breeding have already generated significant differences in population structure between improved and wild populations. As expected, breeding populations are closer to commercial clones than wild populations. However, compared to wild populations, breeding populations exhibit greater genetic diversity as they originated from a mixture of provenances. The population formed by clones was the only one that showed a negative Wright fixation index, that is, heterozygosity was higher than expected for a population in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
Eucalyptus comprises the largest planted area of cultivated production forest in Brazil. Genetic modification of eucalyptus can provide additional characteristics for increasing productivity, protecting plant yield, and potentially altering fiber for various industrial uses. With this objective, a transgenic eucalyptus variety, event H421, received regulatory approval for commercial release after 6 years of approved risk assessment studies by the Brazilian National Technical Biosafety Commission (CTNBio) in 2015, becoming the first approved genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus in the world. GM event H421 enables increased plant biomass accumulation through overexpression of the Arabidopsis 1,4-β-endoglucanase Cel1, which remodels the xyloglucan–cellulose matrix of the cell wall during development to promote cell expansion and growth. As required, in that time, by the current normative from CTNBio, a post-commercial release monitoring plan for H421 was submitted, incorporating general surveillance for five consecutive years with the submission of annual reports. The monitoring plan was conducted on fields of H421 progenies, with conventional clones as comparators, cultivated in representative regions where eucalyptus is cultivated in the states of São Paulo, Bahia, and Maranhão, representing Southeast, Northeast, and Northern Brazil. Over the course of the five-year general surveillance monitoring plan for the approved GM eucalyptus H421, no adverse effect that could impact the biosafety of the commercially approved event was identified. Additionally, the GM eucalyptus exhibited behavior highly consistent with that of conventional commercial clones. Therefore, there was no need for an extra risk assessment study of a case-specific monitoring plan. The results show the importance of continuously updating the regulation norms of governmental agencies to align with scientific advances.
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