Interactions between soils. plants and microorganisms

Biogeochemistry and global change

Our research focuses on understanding the effects of different environmental disturbances and global change factors on the functioning of terrestrial…

PSSD, Plant Signaling in Stress and Development

Plant Signaling in Stress and Development group (PSSD) is focused on the study of the mechanisms that regulate plant immunity in Brassica crops. We…

Food Proteins and Immunonutrition (PROT-IN)

The group works on obtaining and characterizing bioactive food compounds, mainly proteins and peptides, from by-products and products of the agri-…

Food Safety and Quality

This team comprise researchers with a multidisciplinary background (microbiologist and chemistry). Thus, the techniques available to the Research…

Chemistry and Technology of Table Olives

The team includes three chemists (Brenes, García, Romero), one biochemists (Medina) and one food technologist (Ramírez). The team has investigated…

Phytochemicals and Food Quality

The group is in the Life area and partially in the intersection Life-Social Science (lines: LS1_1, LS8_2, LS9_1, LS9_4, LS9_5, LS9_6, SH2_6). - The…

Technology of vegetable products and pickled vegetables

The scientific interests of this group are: (1) to study the technological processes for elaboration of vegetables, mainly fermented vegetables,…

Chemistry and biochemistry of pigments

The research group focuses on identifying chlorophylls, carotenoids, and bioactive components in foods to advance knowledge on food composition.…

Microbial biodiversity associated to the fermentation of vegetable products.

The activity of our group is organized around the fermentation of table olives and other vegetable products. The setup of starters to improve the…