Colombia

Olga Yanet
Pérez-Cardona

Agrobiodiversity Genetic Resources Food and Nutritional Security.

Biography

Olga Yanet Pérez-Cardona (oyperez@agrosavia.co) is a PhD Researcher at the Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation (AGROSAVIA) in Bogotá, Colombia. She holds a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the National University of Colombia and a PhD in Agrobiodiversity with a focus on Genetic Resources from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy. With over 25 years of experience, Olga has led research projects focused on the conservation, characterization, and use of wild and native varieties of Solanaceae species and underutilized crops, emphasizing food and nutritional security. In this role, she has spearheaded five research projects and participated in fifteen others as the lead researcher for specific activities.

Since 2017, she has served as Innovation Manager of AGROSAVIA’s Roots and Tubers Network. Her responsibilities include coordinating the planning and implementation of projects related to potato, sweet potato, cassava, yam, arracacha, achira, and Andean tubers, as well as fostering collaboration among value-chain stakeholders, researchers, and producers.

Publications:

Holguin CM, Rojas DA, Perez OY, Marchant S. (2023) First detection of the potato cyst nematode, Globodera rostochiensis, infecting potato in the central region of Colombia. Plant Disease. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-23-0751-PDN

Patiño-Pacheco, Mónica Jovanna; Pérez-Cardona, Olga Yanet. Evaluación de la resistencia de genotipos de Passifloras a Fusarium solani f.sp. passiflorae en granadilla. En: Entramado. Julio - Diciembre, 2021 vol. 17, no. 2, p. 238-249 https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-3803/entramado.2.6820

Vallejo D, Rojas DA, Martinez JA, Marchant S, Holguin CM, Pérez OY (2021) Occurrence and molecular characterization of cyst nematode species (Globodera spp.) associated with potato crops in Colombia. PLoS ONE 16(7): e0241256. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241256

Valbuena, R. , et al. (2019). Modelo productivo para el cultivo de la papa (Solanum tuberosum), variedad Perla Negra, en el altiplano cundiboyacense. Recuperado de: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12324/35560.

Hernández-G., A K.., Torres-J., D. M.,and Pérez- C.,O. Y. 2017. Análisis filogenético de un aislamiento de fitoplasma del subgrupo XII-A en el cultivo de la papa en Colombia. Fitopatología Colombiana 41(2):18-23