A5054240077- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Food composition and properties
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Botanical Research and Chemistry
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Edible Oils Quality and Analysis
- Soybean genetics and cultivation
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Phytase and its Applications
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Proteins in Food Systems
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2016-2025
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica
2009-2024
Instituto de Tecnología Química
2008-2024
University of Lisbon
2014-2024
Instituto Português Da Qualidade
2014-2023
Geoambiente (Brazil)
2016
Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training
2015
Wageningen University & Research
2003
Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences
2001
Quality aspects of food crops have globally important market economic and health repercussions in the current climate security. Grain legumes high potential for nutritional quality improvement foods, but limited data on manipulating seed is available as primary focus has been hitherto phenotypic agronomic trait improvement. This resulted a lack innovation low attractiveness legume products that, with emergence novel habits, together contributed to reduced consumption. trend now needs be...
Legumes are well recognized for their nutritional and health benefits as impact in the sustainability of agricultural systems. The threatening scenario imposed by climate change highlights need concerted research approaches order to develop crops that able cope with environmental stresses, while increasing yield quality. During last decade, some physiological components molecular players underlying abiotic stress responses a broad range legume species have been elucidated. Plant physiology...
Although yield and total biomass produced by annual legumes remain major objectives for breeders, other issues such as environment-friendly, resource use efficiency including symbiotic performance, resilient production in the context of climate change, adaptation to sustainable cropping systems (reducing leaching, greenhouse gas emissions pesticide residues), diverse uses (seeds feed, food, non-food, forage or green manure) finally new ecological services pollinator protection, imply need...
Legumes are among the most important crops worldwide for human and animal consumption. However, yield inconsistency due to susceptibility pests diseases strongly affects its production. Among affecting legumes, Fusarium wilt caused by soil-borne pathogen oxysporum Schltdl. (Fo) is one of major factors limiting production worldwide. This disease can cause total losses in highly infested fields some legume species. To minimize losses, integrated management strategies combining different...
Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is an annual cool-season grain legume widely cultivated in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Mediterranean region. It a stress-resilient crop with high nutritional value, considered promising source of traits to breed for adaptation/mitigation climate change effects. also reported as suitable more sustainable production systems such intercropping. In this review, we elaborate integrative perspective including not only agronomic-based but...
Nanotechnology has the potential to provide agriculture with new tools that may be used in rapid detection and molecular treatment of diseases enhancement plant ability absorb nutrients, among others. Data on nanoparticle toxicity plants is largely heterogeneous a diversity physicochemical parameters reported, which difficult generalizations. Here cell biology approach was evaluate impact Quantum Dots (QDs) nanocrystals cells, including their effect growth, viability, oxidative stress ROS...
Lathyrus sativus (grass pea) is a temperate grain legume crop with great potential for expansion in dry areas or zones that are becoming more drought-prone. It also recognized as source of resistance to several important diseases legumes, such ascochyta blight. Nevertheless, the lack detailed genomic and/or transcriptomic information hampers further exploitation grass pea resistance-related genes precision breeding. To elucidate pathways differentially regulated during ascochyta-grass...
Wider and more profitable legume crop cultivation is an indispensable step for the agroecological transition of global agri-food systems but represents a challenge especially in Europe. Plant breeding pivotal this context. Research areas key interest are represented by innovative phenotypic genome-based selection procedures yield, tolerance to abiotic biotic stresses enhanced changing climate, intercropping, emerging quality traits. We see outmost priority exploration genomic (GS)...
Some species of the Lathyrus genus are among most promising crops for marginal lands, with high resilience to drought, flood, and fungal diseases, combined yields seed nutritional value. However, lack knowledge on mechanisms underlying its outstanding performance methodologies identify elite genotypes has hampered proper use in breeding. Chlorophyll a fast fluorescence transient (JIP test), was used evaluate water deficit (WD) resistance genus. Our results reveal unaltered photochemical...
Common bean is among the most important grain legumes for human consumption worldwide. Portugal has a potentially promising common germplasm, resulting from more than five centuries of natural adaptation and farmers' selection. Nevertheless, limited characterization this resource hampers its exploitation by breeding programs. To support efficient conservation national germplasm promote use in crop improvement, we performed, first time, simultaneous molecular marker (21 microsatellites DNA...
Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is a valuable resource for potentially durable partial resistance to rust. To gain insight into the mechanism and identify potential genes, we generated first comprehensive transcriptome assemblies from control Uromyces pisi inoculated leafs of susceptible partially rust-resistant grass genotype by RNA-seq. 134,914 contigs, shared both libraries, were used analyse their differential expression in response rust infection. Functional annotation grouped 60.4%...
Lathyrus sativus (grass pea) is a valuable crop for sustainable agriculture, offering dietary benefits and desirable agronomic traits. However, its yield stability limited by diseases such as powdery mildew caused Erysiphe pisi. Increasing fungal resistance to pesticides environmental concerns demand the development of resistant varieties. To identify key defense mechanisms effector genes involved in sativus-Erysiphe pisi interaction we analyzed four L. accessions exhibiting varying E....
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is one of the most consumed legume crops in world, and Fusarium wilt, caused by fungus oxysporum f. sp. phaseoli, major diseases affecting its production. Portugal holds a very promising common germplasm with an admixed genetic background that may reveal novel resistance combinations between original Andean Mesoamerican gene pools. To identify new sources wilt detect resistance-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), we explored, for first time,...