Mi interés de investigación es en varios aspectos de la ecofisiología de cultivos para comprender el potencial de rendimiento y la tolerancia al estrés abiótico. Realizamos estudios de fenómica (caracterización fenotípica) y genómica (caracterización molecular) para identificar genotipos de élite con mayor tolerancia a déficit hídrico, que se pueden incorporar en los programas de mejoramiento. También participo en estudios de ecología de pastizales (diversidad y productividad) con relación a las condiciones medio ambientales y de manejo. Dirijo el Centro de Mejoramiento Genético y Fenómica Vegetal, de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, y pertenezco al grupo de investigación de Ecología de Sistemas Silvopastoriles del Departamento de Ecología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España.

Garriga, M., Romero-Bravo, S., Estrada, F., Méndez-Espinoza, A., González-Martínez, L., Matus, I., Castillo, D., Lobos, G., del Pozo, A. 2021. Estimating carbon isotope discrimination and grain yield of bread wheat grown under water-limited and full irrigation conditions by hyperspectral canopy reflectance and multilinear regression analysis. International Journal of Remote Sensing 42, 8, DOI:10.1080/01431161.2020.1854888

Guerra, FP., Yanez, A., Matus, I., del Pozo, A. 2021. Genome-Wide Association of Stem Carbohydrate Accumulation and Remobilization during Grain Growth in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in Mediterranean Environments. Plants-Basel 10, 3, DOI: 10.3390/plants10030539

Humphries, AW., Ovalle, C ., Hughes, S., del Pozo, A., Inostroza, L., Barahona, V., Yu, LQ , Yerzhanova, S., Rowe, T., Hill, J. 2021. Characterization and pre-breeding of diverse alfalfa wild relatives originating from drought-stressed environments. Crop Science 61, 1, DOI: 10.1002/csc2.20274

Brunel-Saldías, N., Ferrio, P., Elazab, A., Orellana, M., del Pozo, A. 2020. Root architecture and functional traits of spring wheat under contrasting water regimes. Frontiers in Plant Science (IF:4,402)

Humphries, A. W., Ovalle, C., Hughes, S., del Pozo, A., Inostroza, L., Barahona, V., et al. 2020. Characterization, preliminary evaluation and pre-breeding of diverse alfalfa crop wild relatives originating from drought-stressed environments. Crop Science (IF:1,644)

Espinoza, S. Ovalle, C., del Pozo, A. 2020. The contribution of the nitrogen fixed by annual legume pasture to the productivity of wheat in two contrasting mediterranean environments of central Chile. Field Crop Research (IF: 3,868)

del Pozo, A., Méndez-Espinosa A.M., Romero-Bravo, S., Garriga M., Estrada, F., Escobar, A., Alcaíno, M., Lobos, G.A.     2020. Genotypic variation in leaf and whole-plant water use efficiencies are close related in bread wheat under well-watered and water-limited conditions during grain filling. Scientific Report (IF: 4,122)

Garriga, M.; Ovalle, C.; Espinoza, S.; Lobos, G. A; del Pozo, A. 2020. Use of Vis-NIR reflectance data and regression models to estimate physiological and productivity traits in lucerne (Medicago sativa). Crip & Pasture Science (IF:1,57)

Ballesta, P., Mora, F., del Pozo, A. 2020. Association mapping of drought tolerance indices in wheat: QTL-rich regions on chromosome 4A. Scientia Agricola 77(2). http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1590/1678-992X-2018-0153.
del Pozo, A., Méndez-Espinoza, A.M., Yáñez, A. 2019. Fructan metabolism in plant growth and development and stress tolerance. In: Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Vinay Kumar, David Burritt, Masayuki Fujita, Pirjo Mäkelä (Eds.). Osmoprotectant-Mediated Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants - Recent Advances and Future Perspectives. Springer.

del Pozo A., Méndez-Espinosa A.M., Romero-Bravo1 S., Garriga M., Estrada F., Escobar A., Alcaíno M., Lobos G.A. 2019. Genotypic variation in leaf and whole-plant water use efficiencies are close related in bread wheat under well-watered and water-limited conditions during grain filling. Scientific Report (IF: 4.122)
Schwember, A., Schulze, J., del Pozo, A., Cabeza, R. 2019. Regulation of Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legume root nodules. Plants 19, 8, 333; doi:10.3390/plants8090333 (IF: 2.632).

Brunel-Saldías, N., Ferrio, P., Orellana, M., del Pozo, A. 2019. Root phenotyping of spring wheat cultivars with contrasting tolerance to water deficit:  root architecture and functional traits. Frontiers in Plant Science (IF: 3.677)

del Pozo, A., Matus, I., Ruf, K., Castillo, D., Méndez-Espinosa A.M., Araus, J.L. 2019. Genetic advance of Chilean durum wheats post green revolution. Agronomy 2019, 9, 454; doi:10.3390/agronomy9080454 (IF: 2.259)

Garriga, M., Ovalle, C., Espinoza, S., Lobos, G.A., del Pozo, A. 2019. Estimating physiological and productivity traits in alfalfa using VIS-NIR reflectance data. Crop and Pasture (IF: 1.354)

Inostroza, L, Ovalle, C., del Pozo, A., Espinoza S., Barahona B., Gerding M., Humphries A. 2019. High-throughput phenotyping based on canopy reflectance and RGB-images for selecting drought tolerant alfalfa in rainfed Mediterranean environments. Conference European Grassland Federation 2019- EUCARPI Joint Symposium, Zurich, Zwitserland.

Romero-Bravo S., Méndez-Espinoza A.M, Garriga M., Estrada F., Escobar A., González-Martinez, L., Poblete-Echeverría, C., Sepúlveda, D., Matus, I., Castillo, D., del Pozo A., Lobos G.A. 2019. Thermal imaging reliability for estimating grain yield and carbon isotope discrimination in wheat genotypes: importance of the environmental conditions. Sensors 19, 2676;  doi:10.3390/s19122676 (IF: 3.031).

del Pozo, A., Brunel-Saldias, N., Engler, A.,  Ortega-Farias, S., Acevedo-Opazo, C., Lobos G.A., Jara-Rojas, R., Molina-Montenegro, M.A. 2019. Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies of agriculture in Mediterranean-Climate Regions (MCRs) Sustainability 11, 2769. doi:10.3390/su11102769 (IF: 2.585)

Méndez-Espinoza A.M., Romero S., Estrada F., Escobar A., Lobos G.A., Castillo D., Matus M., Aranjuelo, I., del Pozo. A. 2019. Exploring agronomic and physiological traits associated with the differences in productivity between triticale and bread wheat in Mediterranean environments. Frontiers in Plant Science 10:404. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00404 (IF: 3.677)

Lobos, G.A., Escobar-Opazo, A., Estrada, F., Romero-Bravo, S., Garriga, G., del Pozo, A., Poblete-Echeverría, C., González-Talice, J., González-Martinez, Caligari, P.L. 2019. Spectral reflectance modeling by wavelength selection: studying the scope for blueberry physiological breeding under contrasting water supply and heat conditions. Sensors 11, 329; doi:10.3390/rs11030329 (IF: 2.475).

Lobos, G. A., Camargo, A. V., del Pozo, A., Araus, J. L., Ortiz, R., Doonan, J. H., eds. 2018. Plant Phenotyping and Phenomics for Plant Breeding. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88945-532-4.
Martín-Forés, I., Casado, M.A., Castro, I., del Pozo, A., Molina-Montenegro, M., de Miguel, J.M., Acosta-Gallo, B. 2018. Variation in phenological and fitness-related traits can help to explain the plant invasion process among Mediterranean ecosystems. NeoBiota 41: 67–89. doi: 10.3897/neobiota.41.29965 (IF: 3.405)

Madrid-Espinoza, J., Brunel-Saldias, N., Guerra, F., Gutierrez, A., del Pozo, A. 2018. Genome-wide identification and transcriptional regulation of aquaporin gene family in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genes 9, 497. doi: 10.3390/genes9100497 (IF: 3.191)

Martín-Forés, I., Acosta-Gallo, B., Castro, I., de Miguel, J.M., del Pozo, A.,  Casado, M.A. 2018. The invasiveness of Hypochaeris glabra (Asteraceae): Responses in morphological and reproductive traits for exotic populations.  PLoS ONE 13(6): e0198849. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.019884 (IF: 2.776)

Molina-Montenegro, M.A., del Pozo, A., Gianoli, E. 2018. Ecophysiological bases of the Jack-and-Master strategy: Taraxacum officinale (dandelion) as a model for plant invaders. Journal of Plant Ecology DOI:10.1093/jpe/rtw121. (IF: 2.509)

Humphries, A., Ovalle, C., del Pozo, A., Inostroza, L., Barahona, V., Ivelic-Saez, J., Yu, L., Yerzhanova, S., Meiirman, G. Abayev, S., Brummer, E., Hughes, S., Bingham, E., Kilian, B. 2018. Introgression of alfalfa crop wild relatives for climate change adaptation. Proceedings of the Second World Alfalfa Congress, November 11-14, Córdoba, Argentina.

Lobos G.A., Camargo A.V.,  del Pozo A.,  Araus J.L.,  Ortiz R.,  Doonan J. 2017. Plant Phenotyping and Phenomics for Plant Breeding. Frontier in Plant Science 8: doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02181 (IF: 4.495)

Yañez, A., Tapia, G., Guerra, F., del Pozo, A. 2017. Stem carbohydrate dynamics and expression of genes involved in fructan accumulation and remobilization during grain growth in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes with contrasting tolerance to water stress. PLoSONE 12(5): e0177667. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177667. (IF: 3.2)

Garriga, M., Romero-Bravo, S., Estrada, F., Escobar, A., Matus, I., del Pozo, A., Astudillo, C., Lobos, G.A. 2017. Assessing wheat traits by spectral reflectance: do we really need to focus on predicted trait-values or directly identify the elite genotypes group? Frontiers in Plant Science DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00280. (IF: 4.495)

Martín-Forés, I., Avilés, M., Acosta-Gallo, B., del Pozo, A., de Miguel, J.M., Sánchez-Jardón, L., Castro, I., Ovalle, C., Casado, M.A. 2017. Ecotypic differentiation and phenotypic plasticity combine to enhance the invasiveness of the most widespread daisy in Chile, Leontodon saxatilis. Scientific Reports 7: 1546 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-01457-1 (IF: 5.228) .

del Pozo, A., Ovalle, C., Espinoza, S., Barahona, V., Gerding, M., Humphries, A. 2017. Water relations, persistence and productivity of nine alfalfa cultivars growing in field conditions in Mediterranean environments of central Chile. European Journal  of Agronomy 84: 16-22. (IF: 3.186).

Arriagada, O.,  Mora, F., Quitral, Y., del Pozo, A. 2017. Identification of QTL underlying agronomic, morphological and physiological traits in barley under rainfed conditions using SNP markers. Acta Scientiarum Agronomy 39 (3): 321-329. (IF: 1.32)

Gerding, M., Oyarzúa, P., García, L., Fischer, S. Norambuena, C. Barahona, V., del Pozo, A., Ovalle, C., , 2017.  Diversity and symbiosis effectiveness of Adesmia spp. Root nodule bacteria in Central and Southern Chile. Symbiosis DOI 10.1007/s13199-016-0440-9 (IF: 1.438)

Brandariz, S.P., González-Reymúndez, A., Lado, B., Malosetti, M., Franco-Garcia, A.A., Quincke, M., von Zitzewitz, J.,  Castro, M., Matus, I., del Pozo, A., Castro, A.J., Gutiérrez, L., 2016. Ascertainment bias from imputation methods evaluation in wheat. BMC Genomics 17:773. DOI 10.1186/s12864-016-3120-5. (IF: 3.867).

de Miguel, J.M., Acosta, B., Martín-Forés, I., del Pozo, A., Ovalle, C., Sánchez-Jardón, L., Castro, C., Casado, M.A. 2016. Nonrandom co-ocurrence of natives and non-natives plant species in of  Mediterranean grasslands. Acta Oecologica 77:18-26. (IF: 1.617)

Martín-Forés, I., Castro, I., Acosta-Gallo, B., del Pozo, A., Sánchez-Jardón, L., de Miguel, J.M., Ovalle, C., Casado, M.A. 2016. Alien plant species coexist over time with native ones in Chilean Mediterranean grasslands. Journal of Plant Ecology 6: 682–691. doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtw043. ISI (IF: 2.646)

Mora, F., Quitral, Y., Matus, I.,  Russell, J., Waugh, R., del Pozo, A. 2016. SNP-based QTL mapping of fifteen complex traits in barley under rain fed and well-watered conditions by a mixed modeling approach. Frontiers in Plant Science. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00909. (IF: 4.495)

del Pozo, A., Yáñez, A., Matus, I., Tapia, G., Castillo, D., Araus, J.L., Sanchez-Jardón, L. 2016. Physiological traits associated with wheat yield potential and performance under water-stress in a Mediterranean environment. Frontiers in Plant Science 7, 987. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00987. (IF: 4.495)

Trejo, T., Matus, I., del Pozo, A., Walter, I., Hirzel, J. 2016. Cadmium phytoextraction capacity of white lupine (Lupinus albus L.) and narrow-leafed lupine (Lupinus angustifolius L.) in three contrasting agroclimatic conditions of Chile. Chilean Journal of Agricultural Research 76(2): 228-235. (IF: 0.697)

Porqueddu, C.,  Ates, S., Louhaichi, M., Kyriazopoulos, A.P., Moreno, G., del Pozo, A., Ovalle, C.,  Ewing, M.A., Nichols,  P.G.H. 2016.  Grasslands in ‘Old World’ and ‘New World’ Mediterranean-climate zones: past trends, current status and future research priorities. Grassland and Forage Science doi: 10.1111/gfs.12212. (IF: 1.922)

Ovalle, C., Espinoza, S., Barahona, V., Gerding, M., del Pozo, A. 2016. Productivity of alfalfa cultivars in dryland Mediterranean environments of central Chile. Options Mediterrannéennes 114: 195-198.

Identifying agronomical and morpho-physiological traits associated to high-yield potential of winter wheat. FONDECYT 1180252, 2018-2021.

Landraces of alfalfa as a source of germplasm tolerant to abiotic stresses: selecting plant-rhizobia genotypes for a harsh future environment. FONDECYT 1180821, 2018-2021.

Desarrollo de una plataforma de Fenotipeo que permita bajar costos y acelerar la liberación de cultivares en los programas de mejoramiento genético. FONDEF Idea 14I10106, segunda etapa. 2018-2020.

The potential of wild crop germplasm to improve drought tolerance in alfalfa to increase food production for a growing population with less water”, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Australia. 2016-2019.

Intensificación de la producción con manejo sostenible de los cultivos extensivos. CYTED. 2016-2020.