Luis Mejia
Department of Plant Pathology
1630 Linden Drive
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA
Professor, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 1978-present
Ph.D., 1986, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Areas of Interest: Breeding tomatoes for resistance to begomoviruses
and bacterial wilt; tagging resistance genes in tomatoes. He has managed
a tomato breeding program in Guatemala since 1998, and recent has become
a partner in a new Guatemalan seed company, Gentropic Seeds. He has worked
extensively on PCR-based tagging methods for localization of the begomovirus-resistance
genes from L. hirsutum.
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