Two funded undergraduate fellowships running
Terpenes, saponins and flavonoids from seven tropical forages, with GC-MS in partnership with UFSJ; and plant growth-promoting bacteria in Urochloa Dunamis grass.
Research group · CNPq · UEMG Divinópolis
How tropical pasture grows — and what that costs the animal and the climate.
Forage morphogenesis, animal nutrition and digital field tools. Founded in 2025 at Minas Gerais State University, Divinópolis campus.
2025
Founded
14
Projects and actions
14
Published works
7
Research lines
Right now, in 2026
What the group won and is running.
Everything below is backed by institutional paperwork: published call results, MAP registration or a declaration from the Extension Office.
Pasture assessment by phone photo
Validating a standardised mobile-photography method for visual assessment, applying vegetation indices from the literature. May to December, three students.
Three outreach fronts renewed
Agroecological poultry and stingless-bee keeping at a juvenile detention centre, both approved in PROINPE 2026, plus PAEx 336, approved on appeal with an outreach scholarship.
Systematic review on methane
Tropical legumes and methane emission, under a PRISMA-P protocol: 839 records screened by six undergraduate students.
64 farmers across 16 municipalities
A survey of livestock farms in west-central Minas Gerais, which now guides what the group takes to the field and to its short courses.
Field Collector registered at Brazil's patent office
Both modules of the data-collection app — the student's and the researcher's — were granted computer-program registration in July 2026, held by UEMG. The method is described in a SoftwareX paper.
Research lines
Seven fronts, one shared question.
What determines forage accumulation in C4 tropical grasses — and how to measure it well enough to predict.
01
Tropical forage science
Morphogenesis, tiller demography and forage accumulation.
02AI and technology
GNAFOR Field Collector and pasture assessment from phone photos, currently running.
03Animal nutrition
Nutritive value, rumen fermentation and grazing performance.
04Applied plant physiology
Response to nitrogen, water and radiation in the canopy.
05Microbiotech and terpenes
Terpenes with antimethanogenic potential and associated microbiota.
→And two more fronts
Crop–livestock–forest integration and outreach in the territory. See the full page.
In-house tool
The field notebook became an app.
GNAFOR Field Collector records canopy height, tillering and yield straight on the phone, in the field and offline — and hands the data back ready for analysis.
For those out in the pasture
Research that goes back through the farm gate.
Deferred grazing, entry and exit height, brewery waste in the diet: what the group measured, in the language of whoever decides on the farm.
Publications
Two years of the group, with every identifier checked.
Every listed work came from the public ORCID API, and every DOI was resolved against CrossRef or DataCite before being published here. Items without an identifier are labelled as such rather than quietly dropped.
14
Group works
12
Verified DOIs
9
Journal articles
3
Datasets
I'm a student
Undergraduate research, final projects and outreach: how to join and what is expected.
I want to propose research
Open, standing call for co-authorship, multi-site collection and commissioned trials.
I'm looking for a position
Where to look for graduate programmes and jobs in forage, pasture and animal nutrition.