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
Combined multi-omics and physiological approaches to elucidate drought-response mechanisms of durum wheat
Osvin Arriagada, Claudio Meneses, Romina Pedreschi, Gerardo Núñez-Lillo, Carlos Maureira, Samantha Reveco, Valentina Villarroel, Úrsula Steinfort, Francisco Albornoz, Patricia Cabas-Lühmann, Manuela Silva, Iván Matus and Andrés R. Schwember.
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2025, 16, 1540179.
Characterisation of avocado fruits from different Iberian regions: Integrating ion mobility in non-targeted LC-MS metabolomics
Irene Serrano-García, Lucía Olmo-García, Romina Pedreschi, José Luis Vílchez-Quero, José Jorge Gonzalez-Fernández, José Ignacio Hormaza, Alegría Carrasco-Pancorbo.
Food Chemistry, 2025, 481, 143937.
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.
