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Vales, Maria Isabel

Associate Professor

Positions:

Associate Professor, Horticultural Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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isabel.vales@tamu.edu

1 979 845 5341

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Potato Breeding & Variety Development

overview

Dr. Vales leads the Texas A&M Potato Breeding and Variety Development Program. The goal of the Program is to develop high yielding potato varieties, mainly for the fresh and chipping markets, adapted to Texas growing conditions. She combines conventional and molecular tools to enhance the efficiency of potato breeding efforts and to maximize genetic gains from selection.

education and training

Ph.D. in Biology, University of Vigo - (Vigo, Spain) 1996

selected publications

Academic Articles60

Chappell, A. L., Koym, J. W., Scheuring, D. C., Miller, J. C., & Vales, M. I. (2020). Incorporation of Mannitol in Tissue Culture Media for Long-Term Storage of Potatoes at Moderately Low Temperature and Effect on Subsequent Micropropagation. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POTATO RESEARCH. 1-8.
Morey, R., Ermolenkov, A., Payne, W. Z., Scheuring, D. C., Koym, J. W., Vales, M. I., & Kurouski, D. (2020). Non-invasive identification of potato varieties and prediction of the origin of tuber cultivation using spatially offset Raman spectroscopy. ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY. 412(19), 4585-4594.
Choudhary, A. K., Sultana, R., Vales, M. I., Saxena, K. B., Kumar, R. R., & Ratnakumar, P. (2018). Integrated physiological and molecular approaches to improvement of abiotic stress tolerance in two pulse crops of the semi-arid tropics. Crop Journal. 6(2), 99-114.
Shock, C. C., Brown, C. R., Sathuvalli, V., Charlton, B. A., Yilma, S., Hane, D. C., ... Hamlin, L. L. (2018). TerraRossa: A Mid-Season Specialty Potato with Red Flesh and Skin and Resistance to Common Scab and Golden Cyst Nematode. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POTATO RESEARCH. 95(5), 597-605.
Yilma, S., Charlton, B. A., Shock, C. C., Hane, D. C., James, S. R., Mosley, A. R., ... Sathuvalli, V. (2017). Sage Russet: a New High Yielding Russet Potato Variety with Cold-Sweetening Resistance, High Vitamin C and Protein Contents and Excellent Fresh Pack and Processing Potential. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POTATO RESEARCH. 94(4), 379-389.

Chapters2

Saxena, K. B., Sharma, D., & Vales, M. I. (2018). Development and Commercialization of CMS Pigeonpea Hybrids. Plant Breeding Reviews. (pp. 103-167). John Wiley & Sons, Inc..
Hayes, P. M., Marquez‐Cedillo, L., Mundt, C. C., Richardson, K., & Vales, M. I. (2008). Perspectives on Finding and using Quantitative Disease Resistance Genes in Barley. Plant Breeding: The Arnel R. Hallauer International Symposium. (pp. 182-200). Blackwell Publishing.

Conference Papers5

Pandey, J., Scheuring, D. C., Koym, J. W., Chappell, A., Jr, M., Coombs, J., Douches, D. S., & Vales, M. I. (2019). Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Based Fingerprinting of the Texas A&M Potato Breeding Collection. HORTSCIENCE. 54(9), S316-S316.
Chappell, A. L., Koym, J. W., Scheuring, D. C., Jr, M., & Vales, M. I. (2018). Incorporation of Mannitol in Tissue Culture Media to Reduce In Vitro Potato Plant Growth for Long-term Storage. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal: Journal of the Society for In Vitro Biology. 54, S46-S46.
Vigue, S., Tamborindeguy, C., Scheuring, D. C., Chappell, A., Koym, J. W., Jr, M., & Vales, M. I. (2018). Screening Potato Germplasm for Tolerance/Resistance to Zebra Chip Disease under Greenhouse Conditions. HORTSCIENCE. 53(9), S491-S492.
Vales, M. I., Ottoman, R. J., Ortega, J. A., Yilma, S., & Karaagac, E. (2010). MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION FOR PVY RESISTANCE IN TETRAPLOID POTATOES. PROCEEDINGS OF THE IVTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ROSE RESEARCH AND CULTIVATION. 859(859), 409-416.
Karaagac, E., Yilma, S., & Vales, M. I. (2010). SSR-BASED DNA FINGERPRINTING OF POTATO CLONES FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST POTATO VARIETY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. PROCEEDINGS OF THE IVTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ROSE RESEARCH AND CULTIVATION. 859(859), 121-128.