PROJECT 2 – Plant Ecophysiology and Metabolism

The role of plant primary metabolism in stress responses and crop improvement

We need to increase crop productivity to meet future food demands. This will be made even more difficult by the negative effects of climate change, so we need to understand the regulation of primary metabolism in crops of interest for the Mediterranian agriculture. Through field and greenhouse trials we analyse different metabolites of carbon and nitrogen metabolism, and antioxidant capacity of the plant to contribute to crop improvement.