Henequen fiber production in the country have been quite depressed during the last years, decreasing the number of planted areas of this crop and the ones existing, in general, present diverse management problems , what influences on the low yields. This situation determines the need of producing top quality propagation materials since it is quite difficult to solve in a short period of time by traditional vias.Nowadays, the lack of propagation materials to fulfill the plantation plans able to resolve the fiber demand today and in the future, have lead to the use of any type of material, bringing about non uniform plantations of low yields, contributing, at the same time, to their gradual deterioration.

It was established, for the first time, a via somatic embriogenesis plant generating system with genetical stability in Agave fourcroydes Lem specie. A new protocol was elaborated for henequen propagation and genetical improvement, which includes somatic embriogenesis in which 6000 plants can be obtained in 315 days out of a, quantity over 3500 plants obtained through organogenic via. It resulted evident the stability of propagated individuals and polymorphism among plants reproduced by traditional method by the presence of genetical variations in these individuals. It was proved the effectiveness of morphological selection to detect the elite individuals, which rises populations´ quality, in order to proceed to the subsequent in vitro cloning.

The in vitro produced plants were more homogeneous in all morphological and physiological aspects than the plants obtained in field, which contributed to the first ones´ such growth syncronization that almost the 905 of them arrived their production cycle stage simultaneous, happening the contrary with the second ones , where less than 40% reached this stage. Vitroplants reach the minimum r3equired height for leafs´ harvest at 3 years and 4 months, instead of the five or six years required by traditional via propagated plants.

Publications: 13 articles in scientific journals (4 of them with high impact factor and 4 in prestigious foreign journals),  there is another article accepted to be published in a journal with impact. Works were presented in 10 international events, 1 of them abroad (Quisland, USA). Works have been awarded and two thesis have been defended: 1 Master´s thesisand 1 Doctorate´s.