AgriFood Biology Lab
Our AgriFood laboratory is distinguished by its multi-omics approach to studying fruit quality and postharvest processes in a wide range of fruit species, integrating genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data.
Additionally, we maintain a strong commitment to research and collaborative efforts. Browse our publications section to find outstanding research and relevant findings in the field of postharvest agronomy.
AgriFood Laboratory Recent Publications
Two antagonistic gene regulatory networks drive Arabidopsis root hair growth at low temperature linked to a low-nutrient environment
Tomás Urzúa Lehuedé, Victoria Berdion Gabarain, Miguel Ángel Ibeas, Hernán Salinas-Grenet, Romina Achá-Escobar, Tomás C. Moyano, Lucia Ferrero, Gerardo Núñez-Lillo, Jorge Pérez-Díaz, María Florencia Perotti, Virginia Natali Miguel, Fiorella Paola Spies, Miguel A. Rosas, Ayako Kawamura, Diana R. Rodríguez-García, Ah-Ram Kim, Trevor Nolan, Adrian A. Moreno, Keiko Sugimoto, Norbert Perrimon, Karen A. Sanguinet, Claudio Meneses, Raquel L. Chan, Federico Ariel, José M. Alvarez and José M. Estevez.
New Phytologist, 2025, 245, 2645-2664.
Conventional and ultrasound-assisted extractions of protein from sacha inchi (Plukenetia volubilis) and their impact on the physicochemical and structural characteristics
Rosana Chirinos, Romina Scharff-Salinas, Jamerccy Rodriguez-Diaz, Andrés Figueroa-Merma, Ana Aguilar-Galvez, Fanny Guzman, Ingrid Contardo, Romina Pedreschi and David Campos.
Applied Food Research, 2024, 4, 100545.
Featured News
Dr. Romina Pedreschi, one of our principal investigators, presented our AgriFood results today at the 8th Redagrícola Ica Conference in Peru.
Redagrícola Conferences serve as the ideal meeting point for farmers, advisors, scientists, entrepreneurs, and experts from around the world, where the main challenges of agricultural exports in Latin America are discussed.
Recent graduate of the Master's program in Agronomic and Environmental Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso.
We are pleased to announce that Catalina Muñoz Miranda, a Master's student in Agronomic and Environmental Sciences, successfully defended her thesis today related to firmness-color uncoupling trait in avocados.
A call has been made to select important species to perform genomic sequencing in order to understand and conserve Chilean biodiversity.
A public call has been issued by the 1000 Genomes Initiative program to participate in a vote to determine which animal, plant, fungal, and microbial species from our country will undergo genetic sequencing.
