Plant Sciences

The Plant Sciences Division is composed of nine Laboratories performing research that extends from cell biology and developmental genetics, through biochemistry, genetic engineering and biotechnology, to ecophysiology. The model-plants Arabidopsis thaliana, Thellungiella halophila, Medicago truncatula, Oryza sativa (rice) and Antirrhinum majus, are used with the purpose of elucidating basic aspects of development, biochemistry and responses to stress, and to give information that could support the study of economical relevant plants, such as, rice itself, maize, grain legumes, grapevine, olive, almond, pine, cork oak and eucalypt.

Plant Sciences division groups are part of GREEN-IT research Unit.

Head of Division: Carlota Vaz Patto

 Laboratories

• Isabel Abreu Lab - Proteome Regulation in Plants
  GPlantS Unit

•  J. Ignacio Vílchez - Plant-Microbiome Interactions

• Jörg D. Becker Lab - Plant Reproduction and Evolution

• Margarida Oliveira Lab - Plant Functional Genomics
  GPlantS Unit

• Maria Carlota Vaz Patto Lab - Genetics and Genomics of Plant Complex Traits (PlantX)

• Nelson Saibo Lab - Plant Gene Regulation
  GPlantS Unit

• Pedro Fevereiro Lab - Plant Cell Biotechnology

• Rita Abranches Lab - Plant Cell Biology

• Ruben Vicente Lab - Plant Ecophysiology and Metabolism