Veronica MosqueraBrigham Young University - Provo Main Campus | BYU · Department of Biology
Veronica Mosquera
Master of Science in Plant Breeding
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
August 2005 - June 2011
April 2005 - December 2007
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Description
- Teaching classes and practices and development of training materials for Graduate and undergraduate courses. Graduate courses: Advance Genetics in Plants, Biometry, and Breeding Methods of Crop Improvement. Undergraduate course: Fitogenetics
Education
August 2004 - August 2010
April 1995 - December 1999
Publications
Publications (18)
Substantial morphological variation in land plants remains inaccessible to genetic analysis because current models lack variation in important ecological and agronomic traits. The genus Gilia was historically a model for biosystematics studies and includes variation in morphological traits that are poorly understood at the genetic level. We assembl...
Genetic analysis in autopolyploids is a very complicated subject due to the enormous number of genotypes at a locus that needs to be considered. For instance, the number of...
In developing countries, the sweetpotato, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. (2n=6x=90), is an important autopolyploid species, both socially and economically. However, quantitative t...
Key message
β-Carotene content in sweetpotato is associated with the Orange and phytoene synthase genes; due to physical linkage of phytoene synthase with sucrose synthase, β-carotene and starch content are negatively correlated.
Abstract
In populations depending on sweetpotato for food security, starch is an important source of calories, while β-...
In developing countries, the sweetpotato, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. (2 n =6 x =90), is an important autopolyploid species, both socially and economically. However, quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping has remained limited due to its genetic complexity. Current fixed-effect models can only fit a single QTL and are generally hard to interpret. Here...
The whole idea of crop improvement, be it through conventional breeding methods or through genomics-assisted breeding methods, is to increase genetic gain over time. Genomics-assisted breeding is hoped to help reduce the length of the conventional breeding cycle by allowing selection, at least in some generations, during early developmental stages...
Sweetpotato is a food security crop especially for the poorest of the world, a polyploid crop (2n=6x=90) with a highly heterozygous genome with an estimated size of 4.4Gb. Consequently, genome analysis is difficult and genomic tools for sweetpotato improvement are scarce. Toward closing this gap, we followed the two-way pseudo-testcross approach to...
Soil salinity is a serious and growing global problem due to the adverse effects of climate change and environmental degradation. About 7% of land surface is currently affected by salinity. Effects of high salinity on crop production include water stress, ion toxicity, nutritional disorders, oxidative stress, alteration of metabolic processes, memb...
En el Perú centro primario de origen de la papa cultivada, Solanum tuberosum L. su cultivo es muy importante por representar uno de los cuatro alimentos fundamentales de la población que tiene un consumo anual per capita muy próximo a los 80 Kg. El cultivo de papa en Perú ocupa la mayor superficie sembrada (282000 ha.) en Latino América seguida por...
Se estudió la herencia de colores de pulpa y piel de tubérculos en progenies obtenidas de cruces entre cultivares diploides Los colores amarillo y blanco de pulpa serían controlados por tres loci. El 1º con alelos F y f, F induciendo síntesis de Xantofila y ff bloqueándola. El 2º con alelos A y a y el 3º con B y b. Se propuso un modelo de epistasis...
Inheritance of various morphologic plant and tuber traits in 4x potatoes was studied at the greenhouse and the field at La Molina, Peru. Traits considered were: Seedling and adult plant stem pigmentation stem wing type, tuber primary flesh color, eye depth and knobbiness.
A group of 32 progenies from crossing and selfing 12 native Peruvian cultiva...
Inheritances of morphologic plant and tuber traits were studied at the greenhouse and field in Peru. The traits considered were: Presence of albino seedlings, stem wing shape, flower color, tuber flesh color and depth of eyes.
Thirteen native diploid Peruvian potato cultivars (eight of Solanum stenotomum and five of S. goniocalix) showing contrast...
En un estudio sobre 60 progenies, 26 (2x) y 34 (4x), se observó :(i). Albinismo y (ii). Color del tallo en plántulas en invernadero y (iii). Color de tallos en plantas adultas en floración en campo.
En 4 progenies de cruces 2x se observó plantas albinas con segregación ¾ verde: ¼ albinas sugiriendo herencia monogénica controlada por un locus con a...
En un estudio sobre 60 progenies, 26 (2x) y 34 (4x), se observó :(i). Albinismo y (ii). Color del tallo en plántulas en invernadero y (iii). Color de tallos en plantas adultas en floración en campo.
En 4 progenies de cruces 2x se observó plantas albinas con segregación ¾ verde: ¼ albinas sugiriendo herencia monogénica controlada por un locus con a...
DATOS PRELIMINARES DE ESTUDIOS DE HERENCIA DISOMICA Y TETRASOMICA EN PAPA
Catalogo de Progenitores Diploides y Autotetraploides usados en mi trabajo de tesis ”HERENCIA DE CARACTERES DE PLANTA Y TUBÉRCULO EN PAPAS CULTIVADAS DIPLOIDES Y AUTOTETRAPLOIDES.” Donde se muestran las características de planta y tuberculo.
Projects
Projects (2)
This is a multi-national, multi-disciplinary project seeking to develop genomic tools for sweetpotato improvement with a goal towards developing a genomics-assisted breeding platform for SSA. Major partners include North Carolina State University (NCSU), International Potato Center (CIP), Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Queensland (UQ), NaCCRI-Uganda, CRI-Ghana. We are a fantastic team. Our main goals are to develop a reference genome for sweetpotato, develop bioiformatic tools for analyzing complex hexaploid sweetpotato, and dissect traits of interest to next-and end users especially in SSA, and enable genomics assisted breeding to facilitated rapid and efficient variety release and replacement in this region. The project is lead by NCSU.
The Genomic Tools for Sweetpotato Project (GT4SP) is an exciting venture funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and headed by NC State University in partner with: The Boyce Thomson Institute at Cornell University; Michigan State University; the University of Queensland-Brisbane, Australia; the Uganda National Agricultural Research Organization, National Crops Resources Research Institute; and the Ghana Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Crops Research Institute.
We are developing modern genomic, genetic, and bioinformatics tools to facilitate crop improvement and improve genetic gains in sweetpotato, an important food security and cash crop with highly recognized potential to alleviate hunger, vitamin A deficiency, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and predominantly grown in small plot holdings by poor women farmers.
