Mi trabajo se centra en dos áreas principales: i) En ecofisiología frutal, tratamos de resolver problemas productivos a través de la comprensión de la interacción planta/fruta y el medioambiente (macro y micro) en especies de relevancia económica para el país (cerezos, manzanos, vides, entre otros), con especial énfasis en arándanos y ii) En mejoramiento genético, estoy interesado en el uso de la fenómica como herramienta para la identificación de individuos sobresalientes. Hemos focalizado los esfuerzos en la estimación de “caracteres fisiológicos complejos” (ej., intercambio de gases, fluorescencia modulada de la clorofila a, concentración de pigmentos y osmorreguladores, composición isotópica del carbono y el oxígeno, entre otros) vía espectrometría y termografía, en varios programas de mejoramiento activos del país (trigo, alfalfa, quínoa, arándanos y frutilla) orientados a estreses abióticos (salinidad, déficit hídrico y alta temperatura).

2025

Nuñez, F.B., Hernández, Y.; Gutiérrez, M. Lolas, M., Moggia, C., Lobos, G.A., and Díaz, G.A. Díaz, G.A. 2025. First Description of Diplodia mutila Causing Botryosphaeria Stem Blight of Highbush Blueberry cv. Brigitta in the Maule Region, Central Chile. Plant Disease. ISSN: 0191-2917. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-02-25-0338-PDN.

Gámez, A., Chocarro, A., Garriga, M., Romero-Bravo, S., Aranjanjuelo, I., Lobos, G.A., del Pozo, A. del Pozo, A. 2025. Hyperspectral reflectance at canopy and leaf levels for predicting yield and physiological traits in spring wheat under Mediterranean conditions. Crop and Environment. ISSN: 2773-126X. DOI: 10.1016/j.crope.2025.04.004. 

Gasdick, M.; Dick, D.; Mayhew, E.; Lobos, G.; Moggia, C.; VanderWeide, J. VanderWeide, J. 2025. First, they're sour, then they're sweet: Exploring the berry-to-berry uniformity of blueberry quality at harvest and implications for consumer liking Postharvest. Biology and Technology. ISSN: 0925-5214. DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2025.113765.

Noushasi, H., Inostroza, L, Barahona, V., Espinoza, C., Quitral, K., Kefauver, S., Lobos, G., del Pozo, A. del Pozo, A. 2025. Selecting high forage-yielding alfalfa genotypes in a Mediterranean drought-prone environment by using high-throughput phenotyping. Remote Sensing. ISSN: 2072-4292. DOI: 10.3390/rs17091517. 

Estrada, F., González-Meler, M.A., Dias de Oliveira, E.A., del Pozo, A., Lobos, G.A., Lobos, G.A., 2025. Morpho-physiological plant phenotyping for the development of plant breeding under drought and heat conditions: a practical approach. Food and Energy Security. ISSN: 2048-3694. DOI: 10.1002/fes3.70030. 

2024

Romero-Bravo, S., Araya-Alman, M., Moggia, C., Lobos, GA., Calderon, F., Espinoza, S. 2024. Plant Morphology and Fruit Quality Traits Affecting Yield and Post-Harvest Behavior of Two Highbush Blueberry Cultivars in Central Chile. Horticulturae. ISSN: 2311-7524. DOI: 10.3390/horticulturae10121380.

2023

Moggia, C., Sepúlveda, D., Valdés, M., Araya, C., Pacheco, P., Diaz, V., Beaudry, R., Lorca-Alvarez, J., Lobos, G.A. Moggia, C. y Lobos, G.A. 2023. Dangler for Accelerated Dehydration (DAD): a novel system for assessing the impacts of relative humidity on fruit water loss during cold storage of blueberries. HortScience. ISSN: 0018-5345. DOI: 10.21273/HORTSCI17016-22.

del Pozo, A., Mendez-Espinoza, A.M., Garriga, M., Estrada, F., Castillo, D., Matus, I., Lobos, G.A del Pozo, A. 2023. Phenotypic variation in leaf photosynthetic traits, leaf area index, and carbon discrimination of field-grown wheat genotypes and their relationship with yield performance in Mediterranean environments. Planta. ISSN: 0032-0935. DOI: 10.1007/s00425-023-04163-7.

Yuri, J.A., Sepúlveda, A., Fuentes, M. Ubilla, L., Lobos, G.A., Moggia, C. del Pozo 2023. Effect of solar radiation on pigmentation, phenolic content and antioxidant activity in ‘Forelle’ pears during fruit growth and ripening. New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science. ISSN: 0114-0671. DOI: 10.1080/01140671.2023.2206141.

del Pozo, A., Espinoza, S., Barahona, V., Inostroza, L., Gerding, M., Humphries, A., Lobos, G.A. Yuri, J.A. 2023. Aerial and ground-based phenotyping of an alfalfa diversity panel to assess adaptation to a prolonged drought period in a Mediterranean environment of central Chile. European Journal of Agronomy. ISSN: 1161-0301. DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2023.126751.

Ballesta, P., Maldonado, C., Mora-Poblete, F., Mieres-Castro, D., del Pozo, A., Lobos, G.A. Lobos, G.A., 2023. Spectral-based classification of genetically differentiated groups in spring wheat grown under contrasting environments. Plants. ISSN: 2223-7747. DOI: 10.3390/plants12030440. 

Estrada, F., Felxas, J., Araus, J.L., Mora-Poblete, F., Gonzalez-Talice, J., Castillo, D., Matus, I., Mendez-Espinoza, A.M., Garriga, M., Araya-Riquelme, C., Douthe, C. Castillo, D., del Pozo, A., Lobos, G.A.*. Lobos, G.A., 2023. Exploring plant responses to abiotic stress by contrasting spectral signature changes. Frontiers in Plant Science. 1664-462X DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1026323.

Moggia, C., Lobos, G.A. Moggia, C. y Lobos, G.A. 2023. Why measuring blueberry firmness at harvest is not enough to estimate postharvest softening after long term storage? A review Postharvest. Biology and Technology. ISSN: 0925-5214. DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2022.112230.

2022

Moggia C., Bravo M.A., Baettig R., Valdés M., Romero-Bravo S., Zúñiga M., Cornejo J., Gosetti F., Ballabio D., Cabeza R.A., Beaudry R., Lobos G.A. Moggia, C. y Lobos, G.A. 2022. Improving bitter pit prediction by the use of X-ray fluorescence (XRF): A new approach by multivariate classification. Frontiers in Plant Science. 1664-462X DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1033308.

Moggia C., Lara I., Graell J., Schmeda-hirschmann G., Thomas-valdés S., Lobos G.A. Moggia, C. y Lobos, G.A. 2022. Are Fruit Surface Differences in Two Blueberry Cultivars Major Drivers of Contrasting Postharvest Dynamics?. Horticulturae. ISSN: 2311-7524. DOI: 10.3390/horticulturae8070607.

Maldonado, C., Mora-Poblete, F., Echeverria, C., Baettig, R., Torres-Díaz, C., Contreras-Soto, R.I., Heidari, P., Lobos, G.A., Do Amaral Jr., A.T. Mora-Poblete, F. 2022. A neural network-based spectral approach for the assignment of individual trees to genetically differentiated subpopulations. Remote Sensing. ISSN: 2072-4292. DOI: 10.3390/rs14122898.

Moggia C., Valdes Y., Arancibia A., Valdes M., Radrigan C., Icaza G., Beaudry R., Lobos G.A. Moggia, C. y Lobos, G.A. 2022. A Comparison of Firmness Assessment Instruments for Fresh Blueberry Fruit. HortTechnology. ISSN: 1063-0198. DOI: 10.21273/HORTTECH04960-21.

Ballesta P., Ahmar S., Lobos G.A., Mieres-Castro D., Jiménez-Aspee F., Mora-Poblete F. Mora-Poblete, F. 2022. Heritable Variation of Foliar Spectral Reflectance Enhances Genomic Prediction of Hydrogen Cyanide in a Genetically Structured Population of Eucalyptus. Frontiers in Plant Science. ISSN: 1664-462X DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.871943.

Moggia C., Peñaloza O., Torres J., Romero-Bravo S., Sepulveda D., Jara R., Vivanco S., Valdés M., Zúñiga M., Beaudry R.M., Lobos G.A. Moggia, C. y Lobos, G.A. 2022. Within-plant variability in blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) II: Is a shorter harvest interval always the ideal strategy to maximize fruit firmness? Postharvest. Biology and Technology. ISSN: 0925-5214. DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2021.111815.

2021

Garriga M., Romero-Bravo S., Estrada F., Méndez-Espinoza A.M., González-Martínez L., Matus I.A., Castillo D., Lobos G.A., Del Pozo A. Mora-Poblete, F. 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. International Journal of Remote Sensing. ISSN: 0143-1161. DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2020.1854888.

Mora-Poblete F., Ballesta P., Lobos G.A., Molina-Montenegro M., Gleadow R., Ahmar S., Jiménez-Aspee F. Mora-Poblete, F. 2021. Genome-wide association study of cyanogenic glycosides, proline, sugars, and pigments in Eucalyptus cladocalyx after 18 consecutive dry summers. Physiologia Plantarum. ISSN: 0031-9317. DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13349.

Ferrada, E.E., Biche, J., Lolas, M., Lobos, G., and Díaz, G.A. Díaz, G.A. 2021. Identification and characterization of isolates of Botrytis obtained from blossom blight and fruits with calyx-end rot in apples in Chile. Acta Horticulturae. ISSN: 0567-7572. DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2021.1325.14.

Improving breeding programs to cope with the global warming scenario: hourly integration of leaf temperature and spectral reflectance as a source of new genotypic variability. FONDECYT REGULAR 1231147. 2023-2027. Investigador responsible.