Felix Navarro
Professional Interests
International Activity
| USA- Research and Teaching, Research Management: Developed potato and green bean varieties working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bean Improvement Cooperative: Presentations on bean breeding and genomics, molecular markers development for marker assisted selection and disease resistance on snap beans. Potato Association of America: Presentations on potato breeding, variety development and crop modelling. American Society of Horticultural Science: Presentations on green bean and potato breeding for disease resistance, yield and quality. Crop Science Society of America: Publications on green bean breeding and genomics, molecular markers development for marker assisted selection and disease resistance. World Wide Fund: Researcher-Plant Diversity at Los Haitises National Park, Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic- Breeding, Variety Development and Plant Genetic Resources Management, Ministry of Agriculture. Development of corn and sorghum varieties and studies and regulatory aspects of plant genetic resources. Dominican Republic- Teaching (Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Instituto Politecnico Loyola. The Caribbean- Caribbean Plant Genetic Resources Network Central American- Programa Centroamericano para el Mejoramiento de los Cultivos y Animales; Presentations on Development of corn varieties for yield and resistance to corn stunt disease. Mexico/Guatemala- Regional Maize Program: Corn Breeding- Lead the Development of corn varieties for yield and resistance to corn stunt disease project- Dominican Republic. Costa Rica: Red Colaborativa de Investigacion y Desarrollo de las Hortalizas para Centroamericana, Panama y la Republica Dominicana (REDCAHORT)-Coordinated Pepper and Tomato germplasm development in the Dominican Republic. Haiti- Collaborated with CIMMYT-PRM projects in Haiti. |
CALS Priority Themes
- Healthy Ecosystems
- Changing Climate
- Food Systems
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- Zero Hunger
- Quality Education
- Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- Climate Action
- Life on Land