Leonardo Galindo Gonzalez
Adjunct Research Professor
| Degrees: | Ph.D. (University of Alberta), B.Sc. (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) |
| Phone: | 343-212-0239 |
| Email: | Leonardo.GalindoGonzalez@inspection.gc.ca |
| Office: | 3851 Fallowfield Road, Nepean, ON – Building 201, office A113 |
| Website: | Browse |
Current Research
I currently lead the Molecular Identification Research Lab at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in Ottawa, Canada. We use omic and molecular tools to study plants of regulatory concern, invasive and weedy species. Among our projects we are developing efficient molecular technologies to easily detect these noxious species when mixed with other species (in trade or in the soli seed bank). We also study mechanisms of herbicide resistance, and we are developing methods to use pollen collected by bees for biosurveillance of plant pests.
I am also interested in how plants respond to biotic and abiotic stresses, and how these changes relate to phenotypic traits of agronomic importance. I have studied the impact of these elicitors in plants like, common bean, cassava, conifers, flax, canola and wheat.
I currently hold collaborations studying plant-pathogen interactions in clubroot of canola and tan spot of wheat. On these projects we are using metagenomic, metabarcoding, gene expression and functional analysis to dissect key factors that can be used to increase plant resistance and/or interfere with pathogenesis.
Selected Publications
Cordero-Elvia, J.; Galindo-González, L.; Fredua-Agyeman, R.; Hwang, S.-F.; Strelkov, S.E. Clubroot-Induced Changes in the Root and Rhizosphere Microbiome of Susceptible and Resistant Canola. Plants 2024, 13, 1880. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13131880
Murphy, M., Hubert, J., Wang, R., Galindo-González, L. Seed protein biotyping in Amaranthus species: a tool for rapid identification of weedy amaranths of concern. Plant Methods 19, 143 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-023-01116-9
Tso, H.H., Galindo-González, L., Locke, T. et al. Protocol: rhPCR and SNaPshot assays to distinguish Plasmodiophora brassicae pathotype clusters. Plant Methods 18, 91 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-022-00923-w
Galindo-González L, Manolii V, Hwang S-F and Strelkov SE (2020) Response of Brassica napus to Plasmodiophora brassicae Involves Salicylic Acid-Mediated Immunity: An RNA-Seq-Based Study. Front. Plant Sci. 11:1025. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01025
Galindo-González, L.; Sarmiento, F.; Quimbaya, M.A. Shaping Plant Adaptability, Genome Structure and Gene Expression through Transposable Element Epigenetic Control: Focus on Methylation. Agronomy 2018, 8, 180. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy8090180