Melon is a crop of global economic interest. However, it is threatened by yield losses from all kinds of disease, including Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV). After infection, CMV can move cell to cell using a protein called ...

L'alzina surera (Quercus suber) és explotada per la seva escorça, el suro, que genera riquesa en àrees rurals de la Mediterrània occidental. Tot i el seu valor econòmic, el sector enfronta desafiaments com el defecte de ...

Precise and efficient genome-targeting technologies are needed to enable both systematic genome editing and interrogation of gene function. Although technologies such as designer zinc fingers (ZFs), transcription activator-like ...

Gene silencing is a cellular mechanism by which gene expression is inhibited in eukaryotic organisms. It is present in both endogenous and exogenous control nucleic acids and is classified as transcriptional gene silencing ...

El treball de fi de grau té com a principal objectiu el genotipat de diferents mostres de gerds i maduixes per a diferents estudis genètics, mitjançant biotecnologies com els marcadors moleculars, que són seqüències d'ADN ...

Plants are immobile organisms that throughout their lives have to respond to a multitude of environmental factors that can be detrimental to them. For example, they can be invaded by pathogens, which can hinder their growth ...

The melon plant, Cucumis melo L., is an ideal model in the field of genetic improvement for the study of the relevant characters of agricultural interest. The objective of this work was the realization a fine mapping of ...

Plants, throughout their life cycle, are subjected to numerous challenges in development such as biotic or abiotic stress. Among different regulation and defense mechanisms of plants, the post-translational modification ...

I have carried out a project that deals with the investigation of the population structure and dispersal routes experienced by emmer wheat throughout history using genomics with the assistance of bioinformatic and ...