Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas: Recent submissions

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    • Frutales para zonas áridas y semiáridas 
      Franck Berger, Nicolás; Muñoz Aravena, Víctor (Ediciones Antumapu, 2014)
      La publicación entrega datos sobre el trabajo realizado por el Centro de Estudios de Zonas Áridas de la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas de la Universidad de Chile, para la instalación de especies que sean resistentes ...
    • Lobesia botrana (D.&S.) y otras polillas plagas de la vid en Chile (Lepidoptera tortricidae) 
      González, Roberto H. (Ediciones Antumapu, 2015)
      La polilla europea de la vid, Lobesia botrana (Denis & Schiffermüller), es considerada como la plaga más importante de la uva vinífera en la zona europea mediterránea. Se detectó hace ocho años en Chile y ha logrado ...
    • Prosopis tamarugo Phil.: a native tree from the Atacama Desert groundwater table depth thresholds for conservation 
      Calderón, Gabriela; Garrido Salinas, Marco; Acevedo Hinojosa, Edmundo (Sociedad de Biología Chile, 2015)
      Prosopis tamarugo Phil. is a legume tree native to the Atacama Desert, Chile. Tamarugo has physiological characteristics that are highly adapted to extreme life conditions in the Pampa del Tamarugal. Null precipitation ...
    • mRNA-seq reveals skeletal muscle atrophy in response to handling stress in a marine teleost, the red cusk-eel ... 
      Aedo, Jorge E.; Maldonado, Jonathan; Aballai, Víctor; Estrada, Juan M.; Bastías Molina, Macarena; Meneses Alvarado, Claudio; Gallardo Escarate, Cristian; Silva, Herman; Molina, Alfredo; Valdés, Juan A. (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Fish reared under intensive conditions are repeatedly exposed to stress, which negatively impacts growth. Although most fish follow a conserved pattern of stress response, with increased concentrations of ...
    • Global Atmospheric Profiles from Reanalysis Information (GAPRI): a new database for earth surface temperature ... 
      Mattar Bader, Cristián; Durán Alarcón, Claudio; Jiménez Muñoz, Juan; Santamaría Artigas, Andrés; Olivera Guera, Luis; Sobrino, José (Taylor & Francis, 2015)
      This paper presents the Global Atmospheric Profiles derived from Reanalysis Information (GAPRI) database, which was designed for earth surface temperature retrieval. GAPRI is a comprehensive compilation of selected atmospheric ...
    • Spectral and Atmospheric Characterization of a Site at Atacama Desert for Earth Observation Sensor Calibration 
      Pinto, Cibele T.; Ponzoni, Flavio J.; Barrientos, C.; Mattar Bader, Cristián; Santamaría Artigas, A.; Castro, Ruy M. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2015)
      The application of Earth observation sensor data in quantitative approaches calls on the conversion of original digital numbers to radiometric quantities such as radiance or reflectance. This conversion depends on the ...
    • High proportion of cactus species threatened with extinction 
      Goettsch, Bárbara; Faúndez Yancas, Luis; Guerrero Martín, Pablo; Duffy, James P.; Frances, Anne; Hernández, Héctor M.; Inger, Richard; Pollock, Caroline; Schipper, Jan; Superina, Mariella; Taylor, Nigel P.; Tognelli, Marcelo; Abba, Agustín M.; Arias, Salvador; Arreola-Nava, Hilda; Baker, Marc A.; Bárcenas, Rolando T.; Barrios, Duniel; Braun, Pierre; Butterworth, Charles A.; Búrquez, Alberto; Caceres, Fátima; Chazaro-Basañez, Miguel; Corral-Díaz, Rafael; Valle Perea, Mario del; Demaio, Pablo H.; Duarte de Barros, Williams; Durán, Rafael; Faúndez Yancas, Luis; Felger, Richard S.; Fitz-Maurice, Betty; Fitz-Maurice, Walter; Gann, George; Gómez-Hinostrosa, Carlos; Gonzáles-Torres, Luis; Patrick Griffith, M.; Guerrero, Pablo; Hammel, Barry; Heil, Kenneth; Hernández-Oria, José; Hoffmann, Michael; Ishiki Ishihara, Mario; Kiesling, Roberto; Larocca, João; León-de la Luz, José; Loaiza S., Christian; Lowry, Martin; Machado, Marlon; Majure, Lucas; Martínez Ávalos, José; Martorell, Carlos; Maschinski, Joyce; Méndez, Eduardo; Mittermeier, Russell; Nassar, Jafet; Negrón-Ortiz, Vivian; Oakley, Luis; Ortega-Baes, Pablo; Pin Ferreira, Ana Beatriz; Pinkava, Donald; Porter, J. Mark; Puente-Martinez, Raul; Roque Gamarra, José; Pérez, Patricio; Sánchez Martínez, Emiliano; Smith, Martin; Sotomayor M. del C., J. Manuel; Stuart, Simon; Tapia Muñoz, José; Terrazas, Teresa; Terry, Martin; Trevisson, Marcelo; Valverde, Teresa; Van Devender, Thomas; Véliz-Pérez, Mario Esteban; Walter, Helmut E.; Wyatt, Sarah; Zappi, Daniela; Zavala-Hurtado, J. Alejandro; Gaston, Kevin (Nature, 2015)
      A high proportion of plant species is predicted to be threatened with extinction in the near future. However, the threat status of only a small number has been evaluated compared with key animal groups, rendering the ...
    • Efficacy and crop tolerance of 1,3-dichloropropene applied at low rates in established vineyards for the ... 
      Aballay Espinoza, Erwin; Merino, Carlos (Elsevier, 2015)
      Plant-parasitic nematodes are the most important group of root pathogens affecting vineyards for fresh fruit and wine production in Chile. Due to the low efficacy of presently available nematicides and their high variability ...
    • Attributes that define preferences for cheese in southern Chile: do consumers value information about the ... 
      Schnettler, Berta; Pardo, Susana; Miranda, Horacio; Lobos, Germán; Mora González, Marcos; Adasme, Cristian (Univ Zulia, Facultad Ciencias Veterinarias, 2015)
      Considering the negative contribution of the food sector to climate change, a survey was conducted with 400 people in Temuco (Araucanía Region, Chile) to distinguish the preferences for different types of cheese, with ...
    • Characterization of the acetohydroxyacid synthase multigene family in the tetraploide plant Chenopodium quinoa 
      Mestanza, Camilo; Riegel, Ricardo; Silva Ascencio, Herman; Vásquez, Santiago C. (PUCV, 2015)
      Background: Currently, the technology called Clearfield (R) is used in the development of crops resistant to herbicides that inhibit the enzyme acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 2.2.1.6). AHAS is the first enzyme of the ...
    • Effects of maize cultivation on nitrogen and phosphorus loadings to drainage channels in Central Chile 
      Corradini, Fabio; Nájera de Ferrari, Francisco; Casanova Pinto, Manuel; Tapia, Yasna; Singh, Ranvir; do Salazar, Osval (Springer, 2015)
      There are concerns about the impact of maize cultivation with high applications of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) on water quality in surface waters in Mediterranean Central Chile. This study estimated the contribution ...
    • Quantitative trait loci for the response to gibberellic acid of berry size and seed mass in tablegrape ... 
      Correa, J.; Ravest, G.; Laborie, D.; Mamani, M.; Torres, E.; Muñoz Schick, Carlos; Pinto, M.; Hinrichsen, P. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      Background and Aims: Bioactive gibberellins are commonly applied to increase the size of berries in seedless tablegrapes. The genetic determinants for the response of berry size to gibberellic acid (GA3) were investigated ...
    • First Report of Boscalid Resistant Botrytis cinerea Isolates Carrying the Mutations H272R, H272Y, P225L, ... 
      Esterio Grez, Marcela; Araneda, M. J.; Román, A.; Pizarro, L.; Copier, Ch.; Auger Saavedra, Jaime (Amer. Phytopathological Soc., 2015)
    • Effect of Ultraviolet-C Radiation Combined with Unconventional Atmosphere Packaging on the Quality of ... 
      Silveira Gómez, Ana; Baeza Ramírez, Alexia Andrea; Escalona Contreras, Víctor (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      The combined effects of ultraviolet (UV) light C (0.34 to 20.13 kJ/l2) and superatmospheric O2 (>85%) packaging on the respiration rate, atmospheric composition, microbiological growth and nutritional quality of fresh-cut ...
    • Who are the potential consumers of organic fruits and vegetables in Central Chile? A CHAID approach 
      Adasme Berríos, Cristian; Sánchez, Mercedes; Jara Rojas, Roberto; Engler, Alejandra; Rodríguez, Marcelo; Mora González, Marcos (Univ Nacional Cuyo, Fac Ciencias Agrarias, 2015)
      The demand for organic fruits and vegetables (F&V) is growing worldwide, creating market opportunities for developing countries as major suppliers. However, most export-oriented developing countries such as Chile have an ...
    • Skin color and chlorophyll absorbance: Indices for establishing a harvest date on non-melting peach 
      Pinto, Catalina; Reginato Meza, Gabino; Shinya, Paulina; Mesa Juliani, Karen Fernanda; Díaz, Mariana; Atenas, Catalina; Infante Espiñeira, Rodrigo (Elsevier, 2015)
      The aim of this research was to develop an objective method to determine the best harvest date for nonmelting peach cultivars. For this purpose the absorbance of chlorophyll (IAD) on the skin of ‘Andes Du-1’, ‘Loadel’ ...
    • Empirical stomatal conductance models reveal that the isohydric behavior of an Acacia caven Mediterranean ... 
      Raab, Nicolás; Meza, Francisco Javier; Franck Berger, Nicolás; Bambach, Nicolás (Elsevier, 2015)
      Canopy conductance (g(c)) is the main controller of plant-atmospheric interaction and a key element in understanding how plants cope with drought. Empirical g(c) models provide a good inference as to how environmental ...
    • Organic acids metabolism in roots of grapevine rootstocks under severe iron deficiency 
      Covarrubias Peña, José Ignacio; Rombolà, Adamo Domenico (Springer, 2015)
      In many important viticultural areas of the Mediterranean basin, plants often face prolonged periods of scarce iron (Fe) availability in the soil. The objective of the present work was to perform a comparative analysis of ...
    • Microbiological activity and N transformations in a soil subjected to aggregate extraction amended with pig slurry 
      Quiroz Espinoza, Madelaine; Varnero Moreno, María Teresa (Inst Investigaciones Agropecuarias, 2015)
      Pig slurry as a fertilizer source has been extensively used in agriculture; however, in order to reduce the risks of contaminating the water supplies given its high level of N sources, it is important to understand the N ...
    • Evaluation of three semi-empirical approaches to estimate the net radiation over a drip-irrigated olive orchard 
      López Olivari, Rafael; Ortega Farías, Samuel; Morales, Luis; Valdés, Héctor (Inst Investigaciones Agropecuarias, 2015)
      The use of actual evapotranspiration (ETa) models requires an appropriate parameterization of the available energy, where the net radiation (R-n) is the most important component. Thus, a study was carried out to calibrate ...