Ribelles Alfonso, Carlos; García Sogo, Begoña; Yuste-Lisbona, Fernando Juan; Atarés Huerta, Alejandro; Castañeda, Laura; Capel, C.; Lozano, R.; Moreno Ferrero, Vicente; Pineda Chaza, Benito José(Oxford University Press, 2019-10-15)
[EN] Arlequin (Alq) is a gain-of-function mutant whose most relevant feature is that sepals are able to become fruit-like organs due to the ectopic expression of the ALQ-TAGL1 gene. The role of this gene in tomato fruit ...
[EN] The study of the mechanisms of response to salt stress is one of the most active research topics in plant
biology, not only due to its unquestionable academic interest but also because of its economic implications, ...
Gil Muñoz, Francisco(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-10-26)
[ES] El cultivo del caqui ha crecido enormemente en la región Valenciana
en los últimos 20 años al presentarse como una alternativa
interesante al cultivo de cítricos. Sin embargo, su cultivo se enfrenta
a tres problemas ...
[EN] World population is expected to reach 9.2 × 109 people by 2050. Feeding them will
require a boost in crop productivity using innovative approaches. Current agricultural
production is very dependent on large amounts ...
Vicente, Oscar; Boscaiu, Monica(University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, Romania - Faculty of Biotechnologies, 2019)
[EN] The progressive salinisation of irrigated cropland is causing substantial losses in agricultural production, a problema that will worsen due to climate change effects. Enhancing crop salt tolerance is a sensible ...
Brenes, Marco; Pérez, Jason; González-Orenga, Sara; Solana, Andrea; Boscaiu, Monica; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Fita, Ana; Vicente, Oscar(MDPI AG, 2020-08)
[EN] This study investigated the physiological and biochemical responses to salinity stress of Solanum melongena and its wild relative, Solanum torvum, commonly used as eggplant rootstock. Young plants of both species were ...
[EN] Limonium angustebracteatum is a halophyte endemic to the E and SE Iberian Peninsula with interest in conservation. Salt glands represent an important adaptive trait in recretohalophytes like this and other Limonium ...
Vicente, Oscar; Al Hassan, Mohamad; Boscaiu, Monica; González-Orenga, Sara(University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, 2023-06-15)
[EN] Soil salinity is one of the most critical environmental stressors that reduces crop yields worldwide and affects wild plants distribution in nature. Climate change is increasing the salinity of irrigated cropland and ...
Grigore, Marius N.; Villanueva Lozano, Marta; Boscaiu Neagu, Mónica Tereza; Vicente Meana, Óscar(Academic Press, 2012)
[EN] Halophytes are salt-tolerant plants found exclusively in habitats with high levels of soil salinity. It is generally assumed that salt stress is the most important limiting factor for plant growth in natural saline ...
Orts Climent, Eloi(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-10-16)
[ES] Thalictrum maritimum Dufour (familia Ranunculaceae) es un endemismo casi exclusivo del litoral de la Comunidad Valenciana, presente en las provincias de Valencia y Castellón y en la zona del Ebro. Tiene la categoría ...
[EN] Climate change accentuates abiotic stress conditions putting at risk several commercial cultivars particularly vulnerable to salinity in the early stages of development, which makes adopting new technologies in tune ...
[EN] Soil salinity represents one of the most restrictive environmental factors for agriculture worldwide. In the present study, the salt tolerance of two weeds of the genus Amaranthus, A. albus and A. hybridus, the latter ...
Boscaiu Neagu, Mónica Tereza; Vicente Meana, Óscar(University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 2013)
Soil salinisation is an increasing problem for agriculture, affecting the most productive crop areas in the world those cultivated under irrigation in arid and semi-arid regions. In addition, a significant fraction of ...
Anton, C.; Zanolari, B.; Arcones, I.; Wang, C.; Mulet, José Miguel; Spang, A.; Roncero, C.(American Society for Cell Biology, 2017-12-01)
[EN] Exomer is an adaptor complex required for the direct transport of a selected number of cargoes from the trans-Golgi network (TGN) to the plasma membrane in Saccharomyces cerevisiae However, exomer mutants are highly ...
Zuzunaga-Rosas, Javier; Calone, Roberta; Mircea, Diana M.; Shakya, Rashmi; Ibañez Asensio, Sara; Boscaiu, Monica; Fita, Ana; Moreno-Ramón, Héctor; Vicente, Oscar(Frontiers Media SA, 2024-02-16)
[EN] Horticultural crops constantly face abiotic stress factors such as salinity, which have intensified in recent years due to accelerated climate change, significantly affecting their yields and profitability. Under these ...
Domingo Carrasco, Concha; Lalanne, Eric; Catalá, María M.; Pla, Eva; Reig-Valiente, Juan L.; Talón, Manuel(Frontiers Media SA, 2016-09-28)
[EN] Salinity is a complex trait that affects growth and productivity in many crops, including rice. Mutation induction, a useful tool to generate salt tolerant plants, enables the analysis of plants with similar genetic ...
[EN] Proline (Pro) and glycine betaine (GB) contents were determined in two Mediterranean halophytes, Plantago crassifolia and
Inula crithmoides, to assess their possible role in salt tolerance of both taxa. Plant material ...
[EN] Responses to increasing salinity, during seed germination and vegetative plant growth, were studied in two related species of Juncus, J. maritimus and J. acutus. In both species, germination was optimal in the absence ...
[EN] The evaluation of biochemical markers is important for the understanding of the
mechanisms of tolerance to salinity of Phaseolus beans. We have evaluated several growth parameters
in young plants of three Phaseolus ...
[EN] Selection and improvement of crops subjected to salinity constitutes an urgent need for increasing agricultural and food production in order to feed the growing human population. The aim of the present study is to ...