A5090287825- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
- Latin American rural development
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Regional Development and Innovation
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Potato Plant Research
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Plant and animal studies
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Agricultural and Food Production Studies
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
University of Quindío
2016-2024
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2020-2024
Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
2023
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
2014-2022
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
2015-2022
Bioversity International
2022
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
2018
Mère et Enfant en Milieu Tropical
2016
Plants are essential sources of food, medicine, shelter, fuel, feed, and forage, provide a wide range additional ecosystem cultural services to humanity. In recognition the tremendous value useful plants increasing threats their persistence, international agreements including Convention on Biological Diversity, Sustainable Development Goals, International Treaty Plant Genetic Resources for Food Agriculture have created ambitious conservation targets which must be measured through...
Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is a versatile, stress-tolerant, and nutritious grain legume, possessing traits of value for enhancing the sustainability dry sub-tropical tropical agricultural systems. The use crop wild relatives (CWR) in pigeonpea breeding has been successful providing important resistance, quality, efficiency to crop. Current objectives include increasing its tolerance abiotic stresses, including heat, cold, drought, waterlogging. Here we assess potential CWR be...
Crop wild relatives have a long history of use in potato breeding, particularly for pest and disease resistance, are expected to be increasingly used the search tolerance biotic abiotic stresses. Their current future crop improvement depends on their availability ex situ germplasm collections. As these plants impacted by habitat destruction climate change, actions ensure conservation become ever more urgent. We analyzed state 73 closest (Solanum section Petota) with aim establishing...
Abstract Crop landraces have unique local agroecological and societal functions offer important genetic resources for plant breeding. Recognition of the value landrace diversity concern about its erosion on farms led to sustained efforts establish ex situ collections worldwide. The degree which these succeeded in conserving has not been comprehensively assessed. Here we modelled potential distributions eco-geographically distinguishable groups 25 cereal, pulse starchy root/tuber/fruit crops...
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Crop wild relatives (CWR) provide important traits for plant breeding, including pest, pathogen, and abiotic stress resistance. Therefore, their conservation future availability are essential food security. Despite this need, the world's genebanks currently thought to conserve only a small fraction of total diversity CWR. METHODS: We define eggplant genepool using results recent taxonomic phylogenetic studies. identify gaps in germplasm accessions ( Solanum melongena...
Crop wild relatives of sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., I. series Batatas] have the potential to contribute breeding objectives for this important root crop. Uncertainty in regard species boundaries and their phylogenetic relationships, limited availability germplasm with which perform crosses, difficulty introgression genes from has constrained utilization. Here we compile geographic occurrence data on relevant produce distribution models species. We then assess comprehensiveness ex...
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are a rich source of genetic diversity for crop improvement. Combining ecogeographic and phylogenetic techniques can inform both conservation breeding. Geographic occurrence, bioclimatic, biophysical data were used to predict species distributions, range overlap niche occupancy in 36 taxa closely related sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). Taxa lacking comprehensive ex situ identified. The predicted distributions Helianthus identified substantial overlap, asymmetry...
Of the countries considering national-level policies for incentivizing reductions in forest-based greenhouse gas emissions (REDD+), some 25 are experiencing (or emerging from) armed-conflicts. It has been hypothesized that outcomes of interactions between carbon-storage and peacebuilding efforts could result either improved or worsened forest conservation likewise increased decreased conflict. Hence, this study we explore potential efforts, with Colombia as a case study. Spatial associations...
Abstract Aim The conservation and effective use of crop genetic diversity are crucial to overcome challenges related human nutrition agricultural sustainability. Farmers’ traditional varieties (“landraces”) major sources variation. degree representation landrace in ex situ is poorly understood, partly due a lack methods that can negotiate both the anthropogenic environmental determinants their geographic distributions. Here, we describe novel spatial modelling gap analysis framework for...
Abstract While the breed of cattle can impact on composition and structure microbial communities in rumen, breed-specific effects rumen have rarely been examined sheep. In addition, differ between ruminal fractions, be associated with ruminant feed efficiency methane emissions. this study, 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing was used to investigate fraction bacterial archaeal Solid, liquid epithelial samples were obtained from a total 36 lambs, across 4 different sheep breeds (Cheviot (n = 10),...
Effective assessments of the current status biodiversity conservation are needed to support planning, policy and action, from local global levels. Of particular use would be well documented, reproducible methods based on openly accessible data tools. Such should provide an accurate estimate state diversity, identifying gaps in systems, while providing a benchmark against which measure success, including determining when goals have been met. Here we introduce GapAnalysis, open source R...
ABSTRACT The North American crop wild relatives (CWR) of lettuce ( Lactuca L.) represent an underexplored pool genetic diversity potential value to breeding programs. 10 species belong three different groups: a native clade including at least six allotetraploid [ L. biennis (Moench) Fernald, canadensis L., floridana (L.) Gaertn., graminifolia Michx., hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt., and ludoviciana (Nutt.) Riddell], diploid with one tatarica C. A. Mey. subsp. pulchella (Pursh) Stebbins], related the...
Crop wild relatives – the cousins of cultivated plants are increasingly recognised for their potential to contribute productivity, nutritional quality and sustainability agricultural crops. However, use these genetic resources is dependent upon conservation in genebanks consequent availability plant breeders, status which has not been comprehensively analysed Australia. Such assessments given urgency by reports increasing threats natural populations due habitat destruction, climate change,...
Abstract Crop wild relatives (CWR) are an important agricultural resource as they contain genetic traits not found in cultivated species due to localized adaptation unique environmental and climatic conditions. Phylogenetic diversity (PD) measures the evolutionary relationship of using tree life. Our knowledge CWR PD neotropical regions is its infancy. We analysed distribution across Colombia assessed conservation status. The areas with largest concentration were identified being northern...
The datasets and code presented in this article are related to the research entitled "Comprehensiveness of conservation useful wild plants: an operational indicator for biodiversity sustainable development targets"1. methodology includes five main steps, each requiring producing data, which fully described available here. These data include: species taxonomy, uses, general geographic information (dataset 1); occurrence 2); global administrative areas 3); eco-geographic predictors used...
Characidium is a Neotropical fish genus. Its distribution ranges from eastern Panama to northern Argentina, and it an important component of the ichthyofauna present in major rivers South America. We here provide approximation dispersal historical distributions Characidium. The biogeographic history five species genus was analyzed through nuclear RAG-2 mitochondrial 16S genes time-calibrated phylogenetic analysis using three outgroup species. A biogeographical reconstruction performed...
Model organisms are fundamental in cancer research given that they rise the possibility to characterize a quantitative-objective fashion as whole ways infeasible humans. From this perspective, model with short generation times and established protocols for genetic manipulation allow understanding of basic biology principles might guide carcinogenic onset. The cancer-hallmarks (CHs) approach, modular perspective understanding, stands underlying variability among different types, critical...
Differential gene expression analysis is a widely used approach to identify relevant genes and functional mechanisms that influence plant tolerance abiotic stresses. In this study, we evaluated the transcriptional responses of contrasting rice genotypes prolonged aluminum (Al) exposure, in cultivated (Oryza sativa) wild glumaepatula) species, through RNA-Seq experiments. After comparing under control Al treatment conditions, differentially expressed (DEGs) were identified for each genotype....
Abstract Wild potato relatives ( Solanum L. sec. Petota ) play a vital role in crop improvement, understanding evolution, and conserving diversity. However, these invaluable resources are often neglected underutilized susceptible to threats such as climate change, urbanization, agricultural expansion. Little is known about the diversity, conservation status, distribution of wild species Colombia. To address this gap, we assessed status five conserved ex situ Colombian Central Collection....
Sugarcane, a prominent global crop utilized for sugar, bioethanol, and renewable bioenergy production, holds significant importance in Colombia. In 2022, it contributed to the production of 2.1 million tons 347 liters 1745 GWh electrical energy. The cultivation sugarcane worldwide faces vulnerability drought stress induced by climate change, which significantly affects yields. Understanding how plants respond involves complex interactions among genes, morphology, physiology, biochemistry....