2 - CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Y TECNOLOGICAS DE EXTREMADURA (CICYTEX)
2 - Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas de Extremadura (CICYTEX)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Law 10/2010 of Science, Technology and Innovation of Extremadura creates CICYTEX as a Public Law entity with legal personality and full capacity to act in the exercise of powers that are attributed to it, for which it is endowed with its own assets and functional and management autonomy and whose purpose is the generation of R & I in the 4 Institutes attached to it. The overall objective of CICYTEX is to support business sector by assisting it in the incorporation of R & I in its production processes.
CICYTEX and its Institutes includes the following expertise: applied research, technological development and generation of new knowledge in order to meet the demand of the agro-livestock, agri-food and forestry sectors, focusing the research work towards solve their problems; experimentation for the application of new techniques and improvements in production, which can be adapted to agricultural and livestock farms in Extremadura and incorporated into industries and companies; transfer of technology and knowledge generated in CICYTEX and its Institutes.
CICYTEX is part of a operational group funded by the 2014-2020 national rural development program (Spain) in association with the European partnership for agricultural innovation (EIP-AGRI) https://gohigos.adismonta.com/. It is a group of multi-actor food chains that involves farmers, consultants, researchers and companies for a common goal (to guarantee the quality of dried figs).
Recently this team participated to FIGGEN being involved in Living lab orgaization in Spain and in the phenotypic characterization of Spanish fig genotypes.
CICTTEX will participate in AGROFIG with different teams including experts in Agricultural Economy as Dr. Francisco Hinojal Juan, Agronomy and Tree Physiology (see Key persons below). In particular CICYTEX will participate to WP1 with experts in Agricultural Economics, to WP2 with a team with expertise in Agronomy and Soil Science. In addition CICYTEX will coordinate WP4, related to communication and dissemination activities.
KEY PERSONS
Dr. Margarita López Corrales (female) Head of the Department of Mediterranean Fruit Production. H index=19; 918 citations (Scopus). Large experience in studies on the agronomic behaviour of fruit trees. Coordinator of the fig tree germplasm bank and responsible for the Examination Center for the Registration of Commercial Varieties of fig trees at community and national level. She recently participated to FIGGEN project.
Dr. Manuel J. Serradilla (male). He has large experience in postharvest technologies of stone fruit.
Francisco Hinojal Juan (male) Specialist (20 years' experience) in the design, management and coordination of European projects and programmes, mainly in innovation and education.
Dr. María Ramos García (female). Specialist in Agroecology and Biodiversity in mountain crops.
Dr. Ana de Rosario Santiago de Roldán (female). Specialist in fertilisation and soil dynamics
Dr. Antonio Jesús Galán Jiménez (male). Specialist in Plant Science, Agronomy, fig tree pest control.
Fernando Pérez Gragera (male). Specialist in growing techniques for fig trees
Ms, Guadalupe Domínguez Yagüe (female)..Specialist in morphological and molecular characterisation of fig trees
PROJECT-RELATED PUBLICATIONS
Galán, A.J. ;Martín, A. ;Torres-Vila, L.M. ;Ruiz-Moyano, S. ;Galván, A.I. ;Serradilla, M.J. ;López-Corrales, M. (2023). Quantification and identification of damage caused by pests and fungi in dried figs from orchards with different levels of agronomic management in the main production areas of extremadura (SW Spain). Crop protection, 172, 106334.
M. Jafari, M. López-Corrales, A.J. Galán, A.I. Galván, A. Hosomi, H. Nogata, H. Ikegami, F. Balas, M.J. Serradilla, C.A. Garza-Alonso, A. Yavari, L. Ferguson, and A. Sarkhosh. (2022). Orchard Establishment and Management. In The Fig: Botany, Production and Uses (pp. 184-230). GB: CABI. ISBN: 10.1079/9781789242881.0008
Escribano, M.; Elghannam, A. and Mesías, F.J.2020. Dairy sheep farms in semi-arid rangelands: a carbon footprint dilemma between intensification and land-based grazing. Land Use Policy. Vol. 95, 104600. ISSN: 0264-8377.
Ramos, M., Guzmán,G.I. & González, M De Molina (2018) Dynamics of organic agriculture in Andalusia: Moving toward conventionalization? Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:3, 328-359, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1394415
RELEVANT INFRASTRUCTURE OR FACILITIES
Germoplasm Bank (350 varieties); Fruit laboratory equipped for the morphological characterization of varieties.. Soil biology laboratory. Physicochemical and bioactive fruit analysis laboratory, microbiological analysis laboratory, cold and controlled atmosphere rooms. Molecular biology laboratory.
PROJECT RELATED PROJECTS
PID2020-115359RRC21. (2021-2025) “Implementation of super-intensive systems and management of innovative preharvest strategies to obtain high quality standard and hygienic-sanitary figs for both fresh and dry consumption (INNOFIG)”.
INIA RTA2017-000032-C02-01. "Integrated management of dried fig production process to ensure a high hygienic quality product”
TED2021-131841BC22: (2022-2024) "Cereal production and silvoarable practices and their contribution to the climate change mitigation in the Iberian Peninsula (AFCLIMA-DEMO)"
EU Horizon GOOD-Agroecology for weeds. (HE) GA nº101083589 https://www.goodhorizon.eu/
AGROECOLOGY Partnership- “European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition: agroecology living labs and research infrastructures” (HE) GA nº101132349 https://www.agroecologypartnership.eu/