Sofía Valenzuela Águila

Áreas de Investigación

• Biotecnología
• Genética
• Biología molecular

Líneas de Investigación

• Genómica forestal
• Bioseguridad

Proyectos de Investigación Destacados

• 2019-2016 FONDECYT 1161063 Wrky TF: are they working for abiotic stress resistance in Eucalyptus globulus? Investigador principal.

Últimas Publicaciones

Fajardo, S; Valenzuela, S; Santos, A, González, M and E. Sanfuentes. 2017. Phytophthora pseudosyringae associated to the mortality of Nothofagus obliqua trees in a pure stand located in central-southern Chile. Forest Pathology.

Aguayo, P, Sanhueza, J, Noriega, F, Ochoa, M, Navarrete, D, Fernández, M and S. Valenzuela. Overexpression of an SKn-dehydrin gene from Eucalyptus globulus and Eucalyptus nitens enhances tolerance to freezing stress in Arabidopsis. Trees doi:10.1007/s00468-016-1410-9.

Carrasco, A; Sanfuentes E, Durán A, E and S. Valenzuela. Cancro resinoso del pino, una amenaza potencial para las plantaciones de Pinus radiata en Chile? Gayana Botánica, (73:2).

Gaete-Loyola J, Lagos C, Beltrán MF, Valenzuela S, Emhart V, Fernández M (2017) Transcriptome profiling of Eucalyptus nitens reveals deeper insight into the molecular mechanism of cold acclimation and deacclimation process. Tree Genetics & Genomes 13:37. doi:10.1007/s11295-017-1121-4.

Carrasco, A; J.L. Wegrzyn, R. Durán, M. Fernández, A. Donoso, V. Rodriguez, D.B. Neale, S. Valenzuela (2017) Expression profiling in Pinus radiata infected with Fusarium circinatum. Tree Genetics and Genomes. 13(2):46-46.

Navarrete, D; Lefeuvre R; Balocchi, C and S. Valenzuela. 2017. Overexpression of three novel CBF transcription factors from Eucalyptus globulus improves cold tolerance on transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana. Trees · DOI: 10.1007/s00468-017-1529-3.