Martha Lucrecia
Bonell

Biography

Agricultural Engineer from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the National University of Entre Ríos, Argentina. She did postgraduate studies at the Graduate School of the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Buenos Aires in Plant Production with an orientation in Genetics. She joined INTA-EEA Concepción del Uruguay in 2001 as a Research Fellow and participant in the FONTAGRO project "Development of a strategy to obtain durable resistance to Pyricularia grisea in rice in the southern cone". In 2009 she joined INTA as a researcher on the topic of molecular improvement of rice for the implementation of selection assisted by molecular markers in the Genetic Improvement Program of INTA-EEA Concepción del Uruguay. She has participated in linkage agreements, INTA R&D projects and institutional projects financed by Science and Technology organizations aimed at phenotypic and molecular characterization for the preservation and development of rice germplasm AND obtaining new cultivars. She is the author of articles for diffusion, and articles presented at conferences and magazines. Her current lines of research are association mapping for low temperature germination vigor and other abiotic stresses and panicle characters associated with grain yield and quality. She also analyzes resistance to diseases such as Pyricularia and new emerging diseases such as gill virus and its relationship with sustainable management of rice cultivation.

Projects