Melania Vega

ORCID: 0000-0003-0040-7671
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  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
  • Research in Cotton Cultivation
  • Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Biochemical and biochemical processes
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
  • Genetically Modified Organisms Research
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Coffee research and impacts
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Silymarin and Mushroom Poisoning
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Banana Cultivation and Research
  • Plant Virus Research Studies

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2021-2024

Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México
2023

Societal Impact Statement Crop wild relatives (CWR) are plant taxa closely related to crops and a source of high genetic diversity that can help adapt the impacts global change, particularly meet increasing consumer demand in face climate crisis. CWR provide vital ecosystem services increasingly important for food nutrition security sustainable resilient agriculture. They therefore major biological, social, cultural economic importance. Assessing extinction risk is essential prioritise situ...

10.1002/ppp3.10225 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Plants People Planet 2021-09-06

Abstract Crop wild relatives (CWR) intra- and interspecific diversity is essential for crop breeding food security. However, intraspecific genetic diversity, which central given the idiosyncratic threats to species in landscapes, usually not considered planning frameworks. Here, we introduce an approach develop proxies of differentiation identify conservation areas, applying systematic tools that produce hierarchical prioritizations landscape. It accounts for: (i) evolutionary processes,...

10.1038/s41467-022-33703-0 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2022-10-21

Abstract Several Mesoamerican crops constitute wild‐to‐domesticated complexes generated by multiple initial domestication events, and continuous gene flow among crop populations between these their wild relatives. It has been suggested that the of cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum ) started in northwest Yucatán Peninsula, from where it spread to other regions inside outside Mexico. We tested this hypothesis assembling chloroplast genomes 23 wild, landraces, breeding lines (transgene‐introgressed...

10.1002/ece3.9838 article EN cc-by Ecology and Evolution 2023-03-01

is one of the most salient mushroom genera due to its cultural, economic, and medical importance. Recently, many new

10.1080/00275514.2024.2355276 article EN Mycologia 2024-06-24

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is one of the most interesting evolutionary events in Eukaryotic life. It has been proven that fungi share genes or clusters with other organisms such as plants, animals, fungi. The amatoxins biosynthesis metabolic pathway produces lethal bicyclic peptides responsible for deaths by mushroom poisoning. assumed involved passed from Galerina and Lepiota to Amanita secc. Phalloidae species HGT. We used de novo genome assembling mining homologous amanitin among...

10.22541/au.166514763.31878211/v1 preprint EN Authorea (Authorea) 2022-10-07
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