Sex: Female

Education:

  • University of the Philippines at Los Banos, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, B.S. Agriculture (cum laude), 1978
  • University of the Philippines at Los Banos, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, M.S. Botany, 1981
  • Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. rer.nat (cum laude), 1993

Field of Specialization:

Plant Biotechnology, Biological Sciences, Plant Secondary Products

Researches:

Cardenas, L.B., (2000) Medicinal and poisonous plants of Mount Pulag, Benguet, Philippines. (ISBN971-547-168-4)
Los Baños: Museum of Natural History, UPLB

Cardenas, L.B., (2000) Spore and seed bearing plants of Mt. Pulag, Philippines (ISBN 971-547-169-2)
Los Baños: Museum of Natural History, UPLB

Cardenas, L.B., Martinez, M.R., (1977) Osmorphor localization in some Philippine flowers
Philippine Biota Volume 2, No. 1

Cardenas, L.B., (1983) Alkaloid production in intact parts and floral tissue culture of Catharanthus rose us (L.) Don
Kalikasan, Philippine Journal of Biology Volume 12, No. 3

Cardenas, L.B., Tan, B.C., Torreta, N.K., (1986) Some over-looked taxonomic characters of the root in azolla
Philippine Agriculturist Volume 69

Cardenas, L.B., Altermann, A.W., (1989) Somatic embryogenesis is some Apiaceae species
Planta Medica (37th Annual Congress on Medicinal Plant Research) Volume 38, No. 113

Cardenas, L.B., Quimado, M.O., (1986) Tissue culture of medicinal plants: An Investment for the future
Research at Los Baños Volume 2

Cardenas, L.B., Alfermann, A.W., (1999) Hairy root culture potentials and pitfalls
APAM (Asia-Pacific Association for Micropropagators) Newsletter Volume 1, No. 3

Cardenas, L.B., (1999) "Premna L." PROSEA (Plant Resources of Southeast Asia)
Medicinal and Poisonous Plants Volume 12, No. 1

Cardenas, L.B., de Guzman, C.C. , (1999) "Pimpinella anisum L." PROSEA 13
Spices

Cardenas, L.B., (2003) "Senecio scandens Buch.-HarFt. Ex D. Don"
PROSEA: Medicinal and Poisonous Plants 3 Volume 12, No. 3

Cardenas L.B., Cajano, M.A.O., Hernaez, B.F., Aguilar, N.O., (2001) Some interesting plants on the Southern Slope of Mount Isarog, Camarines Sur, Philippines
Los Baños: University of the Philippines, Los Baños

Mohammadreza Shariatgorji, Zdenek Spacil, Gianluca Maddalo, Lourdes B. Cardenas, Leopold L. Ilag, (2009) Matrix-free thin-layer chromatography/laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry for facile separation and identification of medicinal alkaloids
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry Volume 23, No. 23

Papers Presented:

  • The Establishment of In Vitro Multicellular Systems in Hordeum vulgare var. Tuleen 346 , Book of Abstracts/ 6th International Congress of Plant Tissue and Cell Culture, Univ. Minnesota
  • Embryogenesis in Apiaceae, Biotechnology in Plant Breeding and Plant Nutrition for the Benefit of the Third World, A TSAF, Bonn
  • Somatic Embryogenesis and Formation of Natural Products in Tissue Culture of Some Apiaceae Species, 7th International Congress on Plant Tissue and Cell Culture, Amsterdam
  • Somatic Embryogenesis in Some Apiaceae Species , IAPTC (Deutschen Sektion) Programm, Abstracts U. Teilnehmerliste
  • Inventory of Medicinal Plants in Selected Old Growth and Residual Forests in the Philippines., 1st Natural Products Society of the Philippines Convention
  • Biotechnology and Plant Secondary Product Research. In: Hernandez et al. (eds), Seminar-Workshops on Bioactive Substances from Natural Sources. NRCP
  • Biosynthesis of Essential Oil Components during Somatic Embryogenes of Foeniculum vulgare Miller var. vulgare, 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plant Cell and Tissue Culture, Beijing, China
  • Establishment of Hairy Root Cultures in Some Philippine Medicinal Plants, Phytochemical Society of Europe Symposium, Rohlduc, The Netherlands
  • Plant Biotechnology, New Directions, UNESCO-Grupo Medica-Natural Products Society of the Philippines "Phytochemical Techniques and Bioassay Workshop" Central Mindanao University, Bukidnon
  • Hairy Root Cultures - Potentials and Pitfalls , 5th ASEAN Science and Technology Week, Biotechnology Section, Hanoi
  • Inventory of Medicinal Plants of Mount Pulag, Benguet, Philippines, International Symposium on Recent Developments in the Discovery of Biologically Active Natural Products, Manila
  • Country Report on Plant Biotechnology - the Philippines, ASEAN Regional Workshop on Plant Biotechnology
  • Somatic Embryogenesis is Some Apiaceae Species , 37th Annual Congress on Medicinal Plant Research