Clelia
de la Pena
Colorado State University
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
1173 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Phone: (970) 491-4226
E-mail: cleli@hotmail.com
Education:
M.S., Centro de Investigación Científica
de Yucatán (CICY), 2003. THESIS: Effect of light, pH and
benzyladenine in polyamines biosynthesis on cellular suspension
and its variation during somatic embryogenesis of Coffea canephora.
B.S., Biochemical Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico
de Mérida, 2001. THESIS: Variation of the mineral concentration
in the last stages of pitahaya (Hylocereus undatus) development.
Awards, Scholarships and Honors:
CosNET Scholarship, September 1999 to August 2000, for the project
CONSERVATION, PHYSIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY OF TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL
FRUITS.
CosNET Scholarship, September 2000 to August 2001, for the project
CONSERVATION AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE PITAHAYA (Hylocereus undatus).
SISIERRA Scholarship, February 2000 to October 2000, for the project
NUTRIENT CONTENT OF THE PITAHAYA (Hylocereus undatus).
Honorable Mention in the VIII Congreso Students’ of CICY,
2002
CONACYT Scholarship In Master's Degree Studies, September 2001
to July 2003.
Research Interests:
My academic interests are in the improvement of agriculture, particularly
regarding the employment of biological agents to control plagues
and other diseases. I am currently focusing on the interaction
of plant roots and microorganisms, with the goal of understanding
the interaction of plants with their environment, especially the
biological role of proteins secreted by the roots such as the
pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins from the exudates of Arabidopsis
thaliana. I am also working on the purification of a ribosome
inactivating protein (RIP) from the model plant Arabidopsis.
Selected Publications:
De-la-Peña-Seaman Clelia and V.M. Loyola-Vargas.
Possible role of light and benzyladenine on the biosynthesis of
polyamines in the somatic embryogenesis of Coffea canephora.
Physiologia Plantarum. (In preparation).
De-la-Peña-Seaman Clelia and V.M. Loyola-Vargas.
Role of pH and light in the excretion of polyamines into the culture
medium. Journal of Plant Physiology. (In preparation).
De-la-Peña-Seaman Clelia and V.M. Loyola-Vargas.
A critical review of the role of polyamines during the induction
of somatic embryogenesis. Revista de la Sociedad de Química
de México. (In preparation).
