02449nam a2200157 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000170006024501490007726002430022630000110046952017640048065000170224465300180226165300120227910602972019-12-02       2019    bl uuuu     u01u1 u    #d1 aBENNADJI, Z.  aFrom bioprospecting to biorefinery and bioeconomybvalorization strategies of  native non-wood forest products in Uruguayh[electronic resource]  aIn: Pesquisa florestal brasileira = Brazilian journal of forestry research., v. 39, e201902043, Special issue, 2019. Colombo : Embrapa Florestas, 2019. Congreso IUFRO, 25., Curitiba, Brasil, 29 setiembre-05 octubre, 2019. Abstracts.c2019  ap. 462  aSince the nineteens, Uruguayan native forests have been   protected by law and their utilization   reduced to some scarce traditional uses if not literally left untouched in many cases. However, in the last years,   discussions raised around the   ecological significance and the socio-economic  future of this natural patrimony and a new national strategy was designed with a quite wide stakeholders participation. In parallel, as part of a national prospective study,  the government conducted a bioeconomy study, applied to both planted and native forests.   Biorefinery, through the extraction of high-value molecules from non-wood products for green chemistry was identified as one of the challenging approaches to fulfill the expectations of the bioeconomy implementation in the country. This works reports the research advances obtained by the Forestry Department of the National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA-Uruguay) in the field of: (i) the identification, extraction and characterization of secondary metabolites of native forest species as a raw material for biomaterials production and (ii) the way to increase its production through high-value tree domestication for ex situ cultivation providing knowledge to improve the reproduction,  growth and yield of promising forest species. Two target native forest species (Quillaja brasiliensis and Prosopis affinis) were systematically studied through an interdisciplinary agenda and with an interdisciplinary team, covering different steps from the field to the laboratory: bioprospecting, cutting and plant production in vitro, seedling propagation in nursery, laboratory extraction and characterization of secondary metabolites, industrial scaling up and diffusion and technology transfer.  aFORESTACIÓN  aNATIVE FOREST  aURUGUAY