| Expert Name | Ms. Olipmia Ernestina Gomez Consuegra |
| Title | Researcher |
| Division | |
| Institution | Liliana Dimitrova Horticultural Research Institute |
| City | La Habana |
| Country | Cuba |
| Telephone | 53 66 81603 |
| Email | olimpia(at)liliana.co.cu |
| Work Experience | -Coordinator of a Cuban-french cooperatin project, tomato breeding: High temperature and humidity tolerance in tomato varieties
-Chief of the national research project “Genetic struggle on tomato begomoviruses diseases”, resistance to tomato yellow leaf curl virus
-coordinator of the work package ”Evaluation of IPM packages based on crop management and resistant varieties.”
-horticulture productin in open field and sheltered culture
-plant resource management |
| Qualifications | PhD in plant breeding, National Institute of Agriculture Science, Havana |
| Number of Publications | 42 |
| Awards | -Professor postgraduate course “Horticulture” sponsored by IIHLD
- Professor postgraduate course “Vegetable production in sheltered culture” sponsored by IIHLD |
| Other Activities | -Member of the edition councils of the Cuban newsletters: “Agrotecnia de Cuba” and “Revista cubana de Agricultura”
-Member of the Cuban Genetic Society
-Secretary of the “Liliana Dimitrova” Horticultural research institute scientific council
-Chairman of the Expert council of the National Research program “Horticultural Development” and member of the expert council of the National research Program “Plant Breeding and genetic resources”
-Member of the national group for “Horticulture sheltered culture development” |
| Publications | -“Creacion varietal en el tomate para el systems de produccion protegido” Memorias IV Congreso Cidapa, pp 21-25, 2002
-“Mejora Genetica y manejo del cultivo del tomate para la producción en el caribe.” IIHLD, 159 p, 2000
-“Problematica de algunas hortalizas en el tropico.” Agrotecnia de Cuaba 26 (1): 10:15, 1997
-“Cultivo protegido de las hortalizas.” Manual. ILHLD, 35 p, 1997
-“Breeding for less favourable environments”, Malaga 1st symposium 1995 |
| Discipline | Natural Resource Management |
| Last updated | 27/07/2011 14:32:00 |