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Volume 07 Advances in Crop Science and Technology
ISSN: 2329-8863 Agri 2019
August 15-16, 2019
August 15-16, 2019 | Rome, Italy
14th International Conference on
Agriculture & Horticulture
Biography
Hermine Vogel is an Agronomist (Dipl. Ing. agr., 1987; Dr. agr. 1991) from TU München-Weihenstephan (1991). Since 1992 she is a professor at Universidad
de Talca, Chile, and dean of the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences (2017). Her research is focused on plant breeding, domestication, medicinal and aromatic
plants. In 2006 she obtained the Innovation Award for Women in Agronomy of the Fundación para la Innovación Agraria, Ministerio de Agricultura of the Chilean
Government. In the last decade she initiated the domestication process of the Chilean Maqui-Berry, developing three female and three male varieties of
Aristotelia chilensis as a genetic material for commercial cultivation of the species. Other research projects involved the Chilean species Boldo (Peumus boldus),
Matico (Buddleja globosa), Bailahuén (Haplopappus sp.), and epiphytic orchids (Chloraea sp.) native to central Chile. She is the main author of two books and
more than 25 indexed publications.