Education

• B.S. Chemistry. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. 1970.
• M.S. Nuclear Chemistry. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 1973.
• Ph.D. Biochemistry. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 1983.

Current research

• Morphogenesis and Gene Regulation
• Secondary Metabolism and Metabolic Engineering

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Biochemistry and molecular biology of somatic embryogenesis. (FORDECyT)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Lorenzo-Manzanarez J. L., A. J. Enrique-Valencia, Carolina A. Olivares-García, Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Olinda Velázquez-López, Eliel Ruiz-May, Víctor. M. Loyola-Vargas, Ángela F. Kú-González, Mario A. Arteaga-Vázquez, Marín Mata-Rosas, GENOME-WIDE ANALYSIS OF ARF GENE FAMILY AND miR160 IN AVOCADO (Persea americana Mill.) AND THEIR ROLES IN SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS. Planta, 261:61, (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-025-04641-0.
• Quintana-Escobar Ana O., Hugo A. Méndez-Hernández, Clelia De-la-Peña and Víctor M. Loyola-Vargas, BEYOND THE SURFACE: THE PLANT SECRETOME AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE CELL AND ITS ENVIRONMENT, Planta, 261:67, (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-025-04648-7.
• Marcos-David Couoh-Cauich, Hugo A. Méndez-Hernández, Rosa M. Galaz-Ávalos, Ana O. Quintana-Escobar, Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, and Víctor-Manuel Loyola-Vargas, TRANSCRIPTIONAL DYNAMICS UNDERLYING SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS IN Coffea canephora. Plants, 14(7):1108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14071108.
• Olivares-García Carol Alexis, Jesús Alejandro Zamora-Briseño, José Luis Lorenzo-Manzanarez1, Carolina Peña-Montes, Víctor M. Loyola-Vargas, Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Eliel Ruíz-May, and Martín Mata-Rosas, DYSREGULATION IN THE AUXIN AND CYTOKININ SIGNALING PATHWAYS INTERVENES IN THE ABNORMAL DEVELOPMENT OF AVOCADO (Persea americana Mill.) SOMATIC EMBRYOS, J. Plant Growth Reg., 44(8):4597-4611, (2025). DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00344-025-11710-x.
• Quintana-Escobar Ana O., Ana Odetth Quintana-Escobar, Marcos David Couoh-Cauich, Brigitte Valeria Vargas-Morales, Martín Ma-ta Rosa, Eliel Ruíz-May and Víctor Manuel Loyola-Vargas, IDENTIFICATION OF AUXIN, CYTOKININ, TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS AND OTHER ZYGOTIC EMBRYOGENESIS-RELATED GENES IN Persea americana: A TRANSCRIPTOMIC-BASED STUDY, Plants, 14(21), 3288, (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14213288.

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 1990. Leopoldo Rio de la Loza Science Award. State of Querétaro.
• 1999. Manuel Andrés del Río National Chemistry Award (Research). Sociedad Mexicana de Química.
• 2016. Emeritus Researcher. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. CONACyT.

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