Mechanisms of abiotic stress resistance in plants

This research group carries out activities related to the identification of genes and the underlying mechanisms involved in tolerance to abiotic…

Salinity, nutrition and defense

The SANUDE Group comprises 5 staff scientists and 3-4 postdocs and PhD students. Our research focus is the understanding of the signaling pathways…

Plant-Cyanobacteria Symbiosis

Our group studies the mutualistic relationships between cyanobacteria and crop plants, with the aim of obtaining new biofertilizers for crop…

Molecular analysis of virus-fungus-plant interactions

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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…

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,…