Lucia Chavez-Ortiz

Autonomous University of Aguascalientes | UAA · Departamento de Química

Agaves are plants with multiple possibilities of use and are naturally tolerant to low water availability conditions and high temperatures. This makes them species of great interest in the context of the necessary substitution of crops due to climate change. Unfortunately, the overexploitation of wild specimens has endangered many species of the ge...

La biotecnología vegetal es una disciplina de reciente desarrollo que podría convertirse en una herramienta crucial para enfrentar los problemas mencionados. Los sistemas de cultivo, conservación y propagación masiva in vitro de vegetales pueden ser vitales para la conservación y uso racional de la Biodiversidad en el corto y mediano plazo. Además,...

El objetivo fue el desarrollo de un sistema eficiente para la micropropagación del alcaparro (Capparis spinosa L.), arbusto leñoso de gran interés por los productos derivados del mismo, su notable resistencia a la sequía y su tolerancia a las altas temperaturas. Primero se establecieron cultivos in vitro se a través de la desinfección y germinación...

Yuccas are plants adapted to arid and semiarid regions and have been used as source of food and raw materials and for ornamental purposes. Lately, the interest in this genus has grown due to the presence of potential useful compounds such as saponins and polyphenolics. However, they present very low reproductive rates and virtually all the plants u...

Transgenic Sour orange (Citrus auranlium L.) plants were regenerated from Agrobacterium rhizogenes-transformed roots. To obtain the transformed roots, internodal stem segments from in vitro germinated seedlings were cocultured for 96 h with Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain A4 with the ESC4 plasmid that contains the nplII and gus genes. The highest e...