Short Bio

Micaela Navarrete-Mier obtained a bachelor degree in Agricultural engineer at Escuela Politécnica del Ejército- ESPE, Ecuador, and a Master in Bioengineering: agronomic sciences at Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium.

During their undergraduate studies she worked at INIAP, with a native potato variety called “Yana Shungo” (Solanum) to develop new techniques for production. In Belgium, she worked with corn (Zea mays) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on plants under stress conditions. Since March 2017, Micaela has been working for the project “Explaining the diversity and phylogeny of Oxalis tuberosa, an iconic Andean tuber: relationships among genetic, anthropological and environmental data”, as Research Associate. She has been responsible for the collection of oca accessions in the Andes of Ecuador, and for the agricultural management of the ex situ collection of ocas at Yachay Botanic Garden.

Research interests

Agriculture and climate change

Conservation of agrobiodiversity

Agroecology

Teaching

 Laboratory Biology 1

Selected Publications

• Monteros C, Navarrete M, Reinoso I. 2011. Las papas nativas en la gastronomía andina. FTG-353/05 Innovaciones Tecnológicas y Mercados Diferenciados para Productores de Papas Nativas. Fondo Regional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (FONTAGRO), INIAP-Ecuador, PROINPA-Bolivia, CORPOICA-Colombia, ITDG, Soluciones Prácticas- Perú, INIA-Perú y INIA-Venezuela, 165 p.
• Navarrete-Mier M. 2012. Evaluación del efecto de la hidrácida maleica sobre la vida útil y calidad de la variedad de papa Yana Shungo (Solanum). Tesis de Ingeniería Agropecuaria. Escuela Politécnica del Ejército (ESPE). Sangolquí, Ecuador.
• Navarrete-Mier M. 2015. Impact d’un champignon mycorhizien à arbuscules (Rhizophagus irregularis MUCL 41833) sur le prélèvement du phosphore chez le maïs (Zea mays) en condition de stress salin. Master thesis. Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
• Garcés-Ruiz M, Calonne-Salmon M, Plouznikoff K, Misson C, Navarrete-Mier M, Cranenbrouck S and Declerck S. (2017) Dynamics of Short-Term Phosphorus Uptake by Intact Mycorrhizal and Non-mycorrhizal Maize Plants Grown in a Circulatory Semi-Hydroponic Cultivation System. Front. Plant Sci. 8:1471. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.0147