The totanero, Pedro Martinez Gomez, a researcher at the Centre for Soil and Applied Biology Segura (CEBAS-CSIC) and IU-Greens councilor in the city of Totana, has served as Scientific Secretary in organizing the World Congress that Almond and Pistachio was held for the first time in Murcia.
On Monday May 27 opened in Cajamurcia classroom culture, the "VI International Symposium on almond and pistachio production" organized by the CEBAS-CSIC and the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS).
This congress is held every four years in different countries.
In the last two editions were held in Turkey and Iran.
In Murcia is the first time held.
We also have to highlight the importance of the almond crop especially in our country that is the second largest producer after California (USA).
In the working sessions involving hundreds of researchers from 14 countries (Algeria, Australia, Denmark, Egypt, Spain, United States, France, Iran, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Serbia, Tunisia and Turkey).
The symposium, which closed on Friday, May 31, were developed a hundred papers on breeding, biology and physiology, pests and diseases, fruit technology and economics of both crops.
Participants visited a plantation of almond cultivation appreciated Abarán where hundreds of acres of new varieties obtained at CEBAS-CSIC by the group organizing the conference.
COATO visited the facilities in Totana, one of the largest cooperatives nationwide in terms of area cultivated almond.
Pedro Martinez Gomez, born in Totana in 1970, is an Agricultural Engineer for EPS of Cartagena (1991), Agricultural Engineer from the University of Lleida (1994), Diploma in Theology (Series Minor) by the International Theological Institute for Distance Pontifical University of Salamanca (1995), Master of Science in Plant Breeding (Plant Breeding) by International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies in Zaragoza (IAMZ) (1996) and PhD in Agronomy from the University of Murcia (1998).
Dr. Pedro Martinez made his doctoral thesis as a Fellow of the CSIC in the CEBAS-CSIC working in apricot breeding.
After this period he joined the Department of Pomology, University of California-Davis for nearly three years as a Research Fellow and Contract of the University of California in the U.S. to work in the almond breeding program.
During this period he specialized in the application of biotechnology tools in improving fruit.
He currently holds the post of Research Scientist, National Research Council (CSIC) within the Department of Breeding Center and Applied Biology Pedology Segura (CEBAS).
Source: IU-verdes Totana