XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF RICE FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN & 9th International Rice and Wheat Blast Conference

Conferencias Arroz 2024

D. in Biochemistry from the University of Valencia (Spain). Since 2002 she has been a researcher at the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), where she coordinates the rice research line and is responsible for the Rice Department of the same center. The main focus of her research is on the genetic improvement of rice varieties, focusing on yield increase, pathogen resistance and tolerance to drought and salinity. His research activities focus on the analysis of rice genetic diversity and the study of the molecular and genetic basis of agronomic traits through Functional Genomics studies. Among its achievements is the breeding of 5 rice varieties.