General Objectives

• Conservation, development, selection, and propagation of plant germplasm by using biotechnological tools.
• Propagation and development of plants with phytopharmaceutical and nutraceutical potential.

Specific Objectives

• Propagation by tissue culture through organogenesis of selected Paulownia plants and 3 chiltepín ecotypes.
• Adaptation of micropropagated plants in ex vitro conditions.
• Transplant of micropropagated plants to field conditions quantifying survival
• Experimenting ranks of drought and salinity stress in selected species of Paulownia.
• Assessing mixed cultivation development using chile chiltepín plants
• Quantifying capsaicin and capsaicinoid content of the different chile chiltepín studied.
• Germplasm maintenance of selected Damiana by micropropagation.
• Assessing antioxidant source potential of damiana, oregano, chiltepín, and paulownia, mainly.