Cuellar-Torres is a doctorate student in Food Acience at the Technological Institute of Tepic. She has a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of Guadalajara and a master's degree in Food Science from the Technological Institute of Tepic. Her area of research is the use of compounds of biological origin to study the activation of defense mechanisms in fruits, mainly in the postharvest stage. She is currently working on her doctoral project, evaluating the application of agave fructans as potential inducers of the defense system in the avocado Hass fruit.