Title Conference

“Tomato genetic resources, their microorganisms and climate change: a research prospectus for future challenges”

With a degree in Biological Sciences and a PhD in Agricultural Sciences, Máximo González has specialized in plant genetics and microbiology. Currently, he is a researcher at the Applied Microbiology Laboratory of the Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones – CEAZA, Chile. His research seeks to understand how the plant holobiont, host plus the microorganisms that inhabit it, respond under stress conditions. At the laboratory level, it evaluates in water stress tests, the protective mechanisms (genetic and physiological) induced in a host, as a result of the application of plant growth-promoting bacteria. While, at an applied level, his lines of research include studying genetic diversity in plants of agricultural interest and understanding how it influences the recruitment of rhizospheric microbial communities. In turn, it seeks to identify how these communities, under water stress conditions, can modify their structure and diversity (taxonomic and functional) to contribute to the morphological and productive traits of the plant genotypes studied.