Professional Information

Research specialist

Professional degree

Agronomist engineer, 2007. Universidad Catolica de Temuco 


Academic degree

Mr. Sciences Agronomy. Catholic University of Temuco

Master in Plant Sciences, Mention Plant Breeding.Universidad Austral de Chile.

Research Interest

In the last decade has increased the need to replace fish meal in animal feed plant protein, because production of this input is vulnerable to weather conditions in producer countries, which has generated a strong variation prices, in addition to high production costs and lower raw material sources of high pressure product of industrial fishing. Approximately 25% of all fish caught ends up as flour.

In this sense, the yellow lupin (L. luteus) has positioned as a potential alternative to this situation, due to the high protein content of grains, besides having many other features that allow adaptation to the conditions of our country. Therefore the Agroacuícola Nutritional Genomics Center has created a research platform for the improvement of this species.

We have now succeeded in generating a large number of breeding lines, where my interest lies in evaluating the agronomic, production and nutrition, via the establishment of field trials in different locations, which allows evaluating the variability lines against different environments. The most prominent lines are evaluated in farmers' fields from this crop, generating a large transfer of knowledge for them and for us, allowing us to better understand their needs and problems, allowing us as breeders to participate in creating solutions for them.

Publications

Soto-Cerda BJ, Urbina H, Navarro C, Mora P. (2011). Characterization of novel genic SSR markers in Linum usitatissimum (L.) and their transferability across eleven Linum species". Electronic Journal of Biotechnology. doi: 10.2225/vol14-issue2-fulltext-6.

Parra Gonzalez L.B., Straub S.C.K. Doyle J.J., Mora Ortega P.E., Salvo Garrido H.E. and Maureira Butler I.J. 2010. Development of microsatellite markers in Lupinus Luteus (Fabaceae) and cross-species amplification In other lupine species. American Journal of Botany 97:e72-e74.

Paula Mora, Braulio Soto, Haroldo Salvo, Enrique Peñalosa, Javier Zúñiga, Mauricio Osorio y Peter Calgary. "Genetic diversity análisis in accesions of Lupinus luteus (L). using AFLP markers". 57º Congreso de la Sociedad de Agronomía de Chile. Octubre 17-20, 2006. Santiago-Chile.

Soto, B., Mathias, M., Zuñiga, J., Salvo-G, H., Peñaloza, E. y Mora P. "Introgression of the ALMT-1 gene for fitotoxic aluminium tolerante in wheat using Gene Assited Selection and Graphical Genotyping". 57º Congreso de la Sociedad de Agronomía de Chile. Octubre 17-20, 2006. Santiago-Chile.  

Mora, P., Parra , L., Maureira, B., and Salvo-G, H. Development of L. luteus genetic linkage map: gene and QTL related to feed and food quality. Temuco- Chile. Agosto  4-6, 2008.

Parra G, L., Straub, S., Mora-O, P., Salvo G, H. and  Maureira B, I. Generation of genomic and EST-SSR markers needed for the genetic improvement of nutritional and agronomic traits in Lupinus luteus. Temuco- Chile. Agosto  4-6, 2008.

Soto-Cerda, B.J.; Urbina Saavedra, H.; Navarro Navarro, C. and Mora Ortega, P.  (2011).Characterization of novel genic SSR markers in Linum usitatissimum (L.) and their transferability across eleven Linum  species.  Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, vol. 14, no. 2.

Lorena B. Parra Gonzalez², Shannon C. K. Straub³, Jeff J. Doyle³, Paula E. Mora Ortega², Haroldo E. Salvo Garrido^2,4 and Iván J. Maureira Butler^2,. Development of microsatellite markers in Lupinus luteus (Fabaceae) and cross-species amplification in other lupine species¹. American Journal of Botany.2010.