Irapuato, Gto., April 10, 2018.- To raise the efficiency and the propagation level of the in vitro agave, a highly important agroecological plant, students of the University of Guanajuato (UG) concluded the course-workshop "Introduction to the culture of vegetable tissues, propagation and improvement of plants, with a special reference to agave", taught by Dr. Miriam Isidrón Pérez, a professor from the Universidad Agraria de La Habana.
This course was created thanks to the collaboration between the Division of Life Sciences (DICIVA) of UG's Campus Irapuato-Salamanca and the Universidad Agraria de La Habana, whose guest professor, is on a sabbatical approved by the National Council of Science and Technology (Concacyt).
Twenty students, from the third and seventh semester of Agronomical Engineering, as well as students from the Biosciences Doctorate who passed the course, which included laboratory practices where they acquired skills to culture plants in vitro, plus participating in the seminars where they presented and debated scientific articles about the topics treated in the course.
Some of the topics were the fundaments of the biotechnology, the stages of micropropagation of plants, the application of culture of tissues in the genetic improvement of the cultures and the conservation of germplasm, the genetic transformation of plants, to finish the oral presentation of a poster per team about Vegetable Biotechnology related with the in vitro culture of plants.
In her stay at the venue Irapuato of the University of Guanajuato, the guest professor collaborated with several professors at DICIVA, among them, Dr. Héctor Gordon Núñez Palenius and Dr. Rafael Guzmán Mendoza, as well as Dr. Lisset Herrera Isidrón of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Campus Guanajuato.
The guest professor is a doctor in agricultural sciences and she specializes on general genetics, improving plants, phytogenetic resources and vegetable biotechnology. She has more than 47 years of experience giving classes in Cuban universities and abroad.
