Carina Cecilia Cordero-Cordero's scientific contributions

... A first pivotal research avenue worth considering is mining phenotypic and genetic variation hidden within CWR and landraces (Singh et al., 2022) through extended sampling targeting isolated pockets of cryptic diversity (Ramirez-Villegas et al., 2020), robust ecological data curation (Waldvogel et al., 2020b) [e.g., targeting specific abiotic stresses such as drought (Corteś and Blair, 2018) and heat tolerance (Loṕez-Hernańdez and Corteś)], dense linkage disequilibrium (LD) guided genomic characterizations . To overcome genotype incompatibility and embryo abortion issues, typically found in simpler backcrosses, pre-breeding schemes could be advanced into multiple alternating backcrosses between exotic donors and elite genepools (Burbano-Erazo et al., 2021), as in classical congruity backcrossing (Muñoz et al., 2003). Other promising alternatives to achieve a more optimal retention of the exotic phenotype include: embryo rescue, genomic-assisted backcrossing (Migicovsky and Myles, 2017), speed breeding (Watson et al., 2018;Alves et al., 2020;Bohra et al., 2021), tissuespecific gene editing [e.g., for exotic alleles (Martignago et al., 2019), de novo domestication (Lemmon et al., 2018), precocious flowering time, and compatibility factors (Fritsche et al., 2018)], and grafting with wild rootstocks [e.g., for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance (Warschefsky et al., 2016), adaptation to soil toxicity (Fernańdez-Paz et al., 2021), growth traits (Cañas-Gutieŕrez et al., 2022), and yield (Reyes-Herrera et al., 2020)]. ...

... As a country located in an intertropical zone, Colombia has benefited from varied climates, soils, ecosystems, and other natural resources that favor the growth of plant species, representing an advantage for agriculture [5][6][7]. The FAO shows that the country can expand its agricultural territory (without affecting natural reserves), ranking seventh in Latin America's cultivable extension, which implies an economic advance and, consequently, a change to supply, highlighting that the territory only uses 4.8 million hectares of the 22 million arable hectares [5,7,8]. ...

... Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is considered an essential food in 105 countries, it is one of the most commercialized roots in the world, and its consumption provides a high amount of energy mainly as a source of carbohydrates [1]. In Colombia, this crop ranks fifth in terms of production, after sugar cane, banana, potato, and rice [2,3]; it is cultivated in 32 departments, predominantly in the Caribbean region. ...

... Las preguntas del instrumento se formularon tomando como referente guía los datos provenientes del estudio realizado por Martínez- Reina et al. (2019), las experiencias de Adarraga Mejía (2021) y algunas entrevistas previas con agricultores tradicionales y/o ancestrales del municipio de Santo Tomas, tales como el señor Efrén José Rivas Maldonado, cultivador de este y muchos otros productos desde hace más de 30 años, y el señor Alfonso Rafael Barros de Sabanagrande, pensionado, dedicado desde más de 10 años a visitar sus cultivos en zonas ribereñas al rio Magdalena, el cual cuenta con experiencia en los cultivos hortícolas, que es considerado un referente académico que mantiene acercamiento con más de 100 campesinos de la llamada "Isla del Esfuerzo", localizada en esa municipalidad. ...

... In agricultural production systems, characterization studies have been carried out for beans in the different cultivars in the Caribbean Region of Colombia, such as the characterization of the production system of the yard-long bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. Sesquipedalis), carried out by Martínez-Reina et al. (2019a) to build a technological and socioeconomic baseline of the production system, and the characterization of cowpea beans (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.) by Martínez-Reina et al. (2020) for a description of the local production technology and evaluation of economic return indicators of the production system, These two characterizations in cultivated bean species in the Caribbean Region were done to build a technological and socioeconomic baseline. Also, Correa et al. (2019) indicated a low level in the local production technology for the Colombia Caribe in squash. ...