01946naa a2200301 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000220006024501340008226000090021650000190022552010010024465000140124565000110125965000350127065300270130565300200133265300290135265300230138165300250140470000250142970000230145470000250147770000230150270000220152570000140154777300830156119448972016-01-26       2012    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aBARBOSA, M. H. P.  aGenetic improvement of sugar cane for bioenergybthe Brazilian experience in network research with RIDESA.h[electronic resource]  c2012  aSpecial issue.  aIn this paper, it is presented RIDESA?s model for sugar cane breeding to ethanol, and its scientific, technological and human resources training contributions. RIDESA is an inter-university network for the development of sugar cane industry in Brazil, and was formed by a technical cooperation agreement between ten public universities. The model of network management is presented in this study, which involves, among other things, the public-private partnership (Universities-Mills) for the development of cultivars. RIDESA has produced 59 cultivars since 1990 and is now responsible for 59% of the total area cultivated with this plant in Brazil. In the last five years, 286 agronomists were trained in breeding programs at universities that comprise RIDESA. In this same period, the network formed 35 professors, 24 doctors and 7 post-docs in researches with this crop. It is also presented a conceptual approach on methods of sugar cane breeding involving families and genome-wide selection.  aSaccharum  aEtanol  aMelhoramento genético vegetal  aBreeding for bioenergy  aCana-de-açucar  aHuman resources training  aNetwork management  aSugar cane cultivars1 aRESENDE, M. D. V. de1 aDIAS, L. A. dos S.1 aBARBOSA, G. V. de S.1 aOLIVEIRA, R. A. de1 aPETERNELLI, L. A.1 aDAROS, E.  tCrop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology, Viçosa, MG, S2, p. 87-98, Dec. 2012.