Valerio Hoyos-Villegas
Academic title(s):
Assistant Professor
Department:
Plant Science
Research areas:
Sustainable crop and livestock production systems
Safe, nutritious and secure food supply
Human nutrition and One Health
Fields:
Abiotic and biotic stress
Agriculture
Agri-food pathogens
Climate change
Emerging tools for plant and animal production
Food security
Health
Nutrient diversity
Plant production
Plant-microbe interactions
Sustainable management systems
Specialization:
- Develop pulse crop cultivars for farmers and consumers that contain novel traits enhancing sustainability, productivity, nutrition and sensory experience
- High-throughput phenotyping tools for plant breeding program applications and accelerating the rate of genetic gain