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Research Groups

Within GREEN-IT, research labs are assembled in five research groups to guarantee an a priori exploitation of the complementariness between the labs, encouraging natural synergies and to promote the development of new interdisciplinary research topics. The research lines provide a broad and structured vision of the highly complex problems we propose to tackle.

 

Plant Development and Stress Biology

Plant Development and Stress Biology addresses fundamental aspects of the environmental impact on plant development and productivity and on the adaptation strategies that allow some plants to withstand stress. Using a multi-OMICs approach combined with physiological, biochemical and molecular studies, our main goal is to identify key genes and regulatory mechanisms underlying the adaptive responses used by plants to cope with limiting environmental conditions.

 

Plant Metabolic Regulation

Plant Metabolic Regulation aims at understanding how primary metabolism is controlled and how metabolism-derived signals shape plant acclimation, growth and development. We seek mechanistic insight into these processes through the dissection of relevant signaling pathways and through the elucidation of  patterns of gene expression, post-transcriptional modifications, and metabolite changes associated with a particular developmental stage or environmental condition.

 

Forest Genomics and Biotechnology

The objective of Forest Genomics and Biotechnology is to uncover aspects of growth and development underlying traits of economic relevance in forest trees and other woody plant species, and to understand the responses to abiotic and biotic factors in order to address the sustainable production and management of these plant resources

 

Plant Precision Breeding and Biotechnology

The aim of Precision Breeding and Biotechnology is to develop new plant prebreeding materials and new crop management and production practices able to respond to the present and future needs of end users (companies, farmers, cooperatives or final consumers) and to increase added value to the obtainable derived products, in the context of sustainable crop production.

 

Molecular and Industrial Biotechnology

The global objectives of Molecular and Industrial Biotechnology are to contribute to sustainable growth of the national/EU economy through biotechnology and to provide high quality graduate training on ‘biotech-based’ research. The group brings together complementary expertise and a range of advanced methodologies in the areas of chemistry, ionic liquids, biochemistry, microbiology and cell biology to create synergies towards developing new solutions for a green and sustainable society. These fields of research focus on the development of new approaches and sustainable technologies to tackle the production of added-value products.