Personal Docente e Investigador (PDI)
Investigadora predoctoral en el Departamento de Producción Vegetal y Recursos Forestales de la Universidad de Valladolid, donde desarrolla su labor en el laboratorio de Patología Forestal.
Su tesis doctoral se centra en el control de enfermedades forestales, como el chancro resinoso del pino y la seca de la encina, mediante técnicas de silenciamiento génico inducido por pulverización. Ha realizado una estancia internacional de investigación en la University of Queensland (Australia).
Es miembro del Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Gestión Forestal Sostenible de la Universidad de Valladolid.
Líneas de investigación: Sanidad Forestal
Trabajos recientes de investigación:
Spray-Induced Gene Silencing (SIGS) as a Tool for the Management of Pine Pitch Canker Forest Disease
This research aimed to determine whether SIGS could be used to control Fusarium circinatum, a widely impactful forest pathogen that causes Pine Pitch Canker disease.
New Insights on the Integrated Management of Plant Diseases by RNA Strategies: Mycoviruses and RNA Interference
RNA-based strategies for plant disease management offer an attractive alternative to agrochemicals that negatively impact human and ecosystem health and lead to pathogen resistance. This review describes the mechanisms behind and the potential of two RNA-based strategies, mycoviruses and RNAi, for plant disease management. Successful applications are discussed, as well as the research gaps and limitations that remain to be addressed.
Spray‐induced gene silencing to control plant pathogenic fungi: A step‐by‐step guide
This approach is a new technology for plant disease management, in which double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) targeting essential or virulence genes are applied to plants or plant products and subsequently absorbed by plant pathogens, triggering a gene silencing effect and the inhibition of the infection process.
