Interaction between plant viruses and insect vectors

Vegetable crop breeding

The group is mainly focused on agriculture in a broad sense, aiming at a multidisciplinary approach to specific problems in the agri-food industry. A…

NANOMEDICINE

The Nanomedicine@ICN2 group, established at the end of 2019, is dedicated to the development of nanomaterials and devices for therapeutic and…

Biotechnology of subtropical and temperate crops

Sustainable agro-food materials

The Sustainable Agro-Food Materials Group makes research about circular bioeconomy, transforming agricultural waste and food by-products into…

Fruit ripening and quality

Defense evasion in plant-bacteria interactions

We investigate molecular events of the interaction of bacterial pathogens (Pseudomonas, Ralstonia, Salmonella) with the plant (Arabidopsis, tomato,…

Translation regulation in plants

Protein synthesis, also known as translation, is a fundamental process for life and an integral component of the Central Dogma of Molecular biology.…

Beneficial plant-microbe interaction

Microorganisms emit compounds that enhance photosynthesis and nutrient uptake, and confer resistance to abiotic stresses and pathogens, thereby…

Plant epitranscriptomic

In analogy to epigenetics, which studies the control of gene activity regardless of the DNA sequence, epitranscriptomics deals with chemical…