Rafael Fernández Muñoz
Professor
Improvement of quality and food security of fruits
Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterranea La Mayora
Spain
Biography
Specialist in tomato genetics and breeding, his research is based on the utilization of natural genetic variation contained in germplasm banks using both classical and molecular techniques. He actively collaborates with the Plant Virology Group at IHSM in the search and study of inheritance of genetic resistance to viral diseases of tomato, especially those transmitted by whiteflies, focusing on the resistance to the virus itself but also to the insect vector.
Research Interest
Improvement of quality and food security of fruits.
Publications
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Uniform ripening encodes a Golden 2-like transcription factor regulating tomato fruit chloroplast development. Powell ALT, Nguyen CV, Hill T, Cheng KL, Figueroa-Balderas R, Aktas H, Ashrafi H, Pons C, Fernández-Muñoz R, Vicente A, Lopez-Baltazar J, Barry CS, Liu Y, Chetelat R, Granell A, Van Deynze A, Giovannoni JJ, Bennett AB Science. 2012;
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Transient silencing of CHALCONE SYNTHASE during fruit ripening modifies tomato epidermal cells and cuticle properties. España, L., Heredia-Guerrero, J.A., Reina-Pinto, J.J., Fernández-Muñoz, R., Heredia, A., DomÃnguez, E. Plant Physiology. 2014 ; 166(3):1371-1386
