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Allan Mata Quirós

Researcher on genetic breeding

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He is Costa Rican, graduated in 2007 as a Biotechnology Engineer from the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica and in 2013 as a Master in Ecological Agriculture from the Posgraduate School of CATIE, Costa Rica. Since 2007, he works as a Researcher in CATIE`s Coffee and Cacao Genetic and Agroforestry Breeding Unit, specifically on issues related to cacao genetic breeding. In his work, he carries out planning, monitoring, evaluation and analysis of experimental field trials for the development of cacao varieties with high production and resistance to diseases, and he also coordinates the tasks related to the management of International Cacao Collection at CATIE (IC3). He has served as a speaker at international conferences in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Peru and Dominican Republic and has been a facilitator in training courses for technicians and producers on issues of vegetative reproduction of cacao, genetic breeding, plantation management and diseases control; as well as visiting professor in courses of CATIE`s Master`s and undergraduate programs at the Universidad de Costa Rica.

• Mata, A. 2006. Establecimiento de un sistema de propagación vegetativa de genotipos superiores de cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) por medio de ramillas en el CATIE. Informe de Trabajo Final de Graduación. Escuela de Biología. Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Cartago, CR. 104 p.

 

• Phillips-Mora, W.; Castillo, J.; Arciniegas, A.; Mata, A.; Sánchez, A.; Leandro, M.; Astorga, C.; Motamayor, J.; Guyton, B.; Seguine, E.; Schnell, R. 2009. Overcoming the main limiting factors of cacao production in Central America through the use of improved clones developed at CATIE. Proceedings of the 16th International Cocoa Research Conference, Bali, Indonesia. p. 19.

 

• Phillips-Mora, W; Arciniegas-Leal, A; Mata-Quirós, A; Motamayor-Arias, JC. 2012. Catálogo de clones de cacao seleccionados por el CATIE para siembras comerciales. Turrialba, CR. Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza. 68 p. (Serie Técnica. Manual Técnico N°105).

 

• Mata-Quirós, A. 2013. Evaluación de dos protocolos para la inducción de embriogénesis somática en clones de cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) seleccionados por el Programa de Mejoramiento Genético de Cacao del CATIE. Tesis M.Sc. Turrialba, CR. Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza. 80 p.

 

• Romero Navarro, JA; Phillips-Mora, W; Arciniegas-Leal, A; Mata-Quirós, A; Haiminen, N; Mustiga, G; Livingstone, D III; van Bakel, H; Kuhn, DN; Parida, L; Kasarskis, A; Motamayor, JC. 2017 Application of Genome Wide Association and Genomic Prediction for Improvement of Cacao Productivity and Resistance to Black and Frosty Pod Diseases. Front. Plant Sci. 8:1905. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01905

 

• Phillips-Mora, W; Mata-Quirós, A; Arciniegas-Leal, A. Generation of cacao clones with resistance against Frosty Pod Rot (Moniliophthora roreri (Cif. & Par.) Evans et al.). Proceedings of the International Symposium on Cocoa Research (ISCR), Lima, Peru, 2017.

 

• Mata-Quirós, A; Arciniegas-Leal, A; Phillips-Mora, W; Meinhardt, LW; Zhang, D. Understanding the Genetic Structure and Parentage of the Clonal Series of Cacao UF, CC, PMCT and ARF Preserved in The International Cacao Collection at CATIE (IC3). Proceedings of the International Symposium on Cocoa Research (ISCR), Lima, Peru, 2017.

 

• Mustiga, GM; Gezan, SA; Phillips-Mora, W; Arciniegas-Leal, A; Mata-Quirós, A; Motamayor, JC. 2018. Phenotypic Description of Theobroma cacao L. for Yield and Vigor Traits From 34 Hybrid Families in Costa Rica Based on the Genetic Basis of the Parental Population. Front. Plant Sci. 9:808. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00808

 

• Mata-Quirós, A; Arciniegas-Leal, A; Phillips-Mora, W; Meinhardt, LW; Motilal, L; Mischke, S; Zhang, D. 2018. Assessing hidden parentage and genetic integrity of the “United Fruit Clones” of cacao (Theobroma cacao) from Costa Rica using SNP markers. Breeding Science Preview. doi:10.1270/jsbbs.18057

 

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