
El mundo iberico. Descifrando las bases ecofisiológicas del decaimiento
El objetivo principal de este proyecto es estudiar las interacciones planta-microbioata en la resiliencia de los encinares Mediterráneos. Por ello, me embarqué en el 2019 al equipo de Jorge Curiel (https://www.bc3research.org/jorge_curiel). Durante este tiempo, hemos avanzado mucho, y formado un gran equipo interdisciplinar. Mi aportación principal ha sido en el estudio de la salud de la planta mediante técnicas fisiológicas. Podréis ver pronto nuestros avances en la sección de publicaciones.

Integrating nutritional functional trait diversity in food systems production
Leaf carotenoids are biochemical traits related to plant functioning and physiological status and they are also important health promoters, associated with ocular health and cognitive benefits. As commercial vegetables can “live after death” (once harvested or at the supermarket shelves) and continue to perform biochemical adjustments. We are now focused on the study of the circadian changes in phytochemicals.

The colour world
Carotenoids are one of the most widespread and ubiquitous lipid soluble pigments in nature and the main rersponsable of brown-yellow-orange colours. I am involved in the study of these lipophilic photoprotective compounds in plants, focusing on the new physiological roles and their nutritional and technological implications.

Uncovering the volatile nature of bryophytes
Plants emit volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), such as isoprene that influence air quality, cloud dynamics, and global climate. There is a lack of information regarding the BVOCs emission of the early-land colonizers, the bryophytes. This proposal is in collaboration with different researchers along the world. The bryophytes were the first land colonizers and their ecological importance in community dynamics is indisputable, thus this study will set light on the BVOCs evolution and functions in bryophytes. This proposal will be especially valuable under global warming scenario that may change the emission patterns in bryophytes with important consequences for future biosphere-atmosphere interactions. This study is support by the AEET.

Mangrove ecophysiology