Antonio Martín Muñoz
INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION, CHROMOSOMAL ENGINEERING
The domestication of cultivated plants has resulted in the utilization by the breeder of only a small part of the gene pool available in the original wild species. My activity is oriented to the search and characterization of genetic variability available in germplasm banks or in the places of origin of crops, in order to improve, in addition to yield, organoleptic and nutritional quality, as well as resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses of these. Exceptionally, as a result of interspecific hybridization, we have obtained genomic combinations that have given rise to a new cereal, the trithordoid, and are the source of genetic variability, such as, and of special relevance in breeding, gene-cytoplasmic androsterility.
- E-mail: amartin@ias.csic.es
- IAS Main Building – Office 12 top floor
- Telephone: 957 49 92 07
Outstanding contributions
- Calderón, M.C.; Rey, M.D.; Martín, A.; Prieto, P. 2018. Homoeologous chromosomes from two Hordeum species can recognize and associate during meiosis in wheat in the presence of the Ph1 locus. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9: 585
- Coutinho, J.P.; Carvalho, A.; Martín, A.; Lima-Brito J. 2018. Molecular characterization of Fagaceae species using inter-primer binding site (iPBS) markers. Molecular Biology Reports, 45: 133 – 142.
- Rodriguez-Suarez, C., Bagnaresi, P., Cattivelli, L., Piston, F., Castillo, A., Martin, A.C., Atienza, S.G., Ramirez, C., Martin, A., A. 2020. Transcriptomics, chromosome engineering and mapping identify a restorer-of-fertility region in the CMS wheat system msH1. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 133 (1): 283-295
