Sabbatical in Santiago de Chile
After 15 academic courses at the UPM, I took the chance to apply for a Senior Mobility Fellowship of the “Ministerio de Educación, Formación Profesional y Deportes” to spend four months in Santiago de...
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Comparative analysis of habitat-adapted symbionts
We are pleased to present our recent study on the comparative molecular analysis of two habitat-adapted fungal symbionts that enhance salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thalina plants. This publication marks Silvia’s debut as the...
Adrían our rising star
Very proud of our former Illuminati , who will present his PhD work in the Rising Stars webinar series of MPMI on July 29th. Get your tickets here Rising Stars of IS-MPMI, it is...
Congratulations Marta
Last week, our undergraduate student, defended her Bachelor thesis in Biotechnology with outstanding success. The entire lab is very proud of her, but without doubt Estefi is most proud as she directly supervised the...
Junior seminar Estefi
This Wednesday 10th of June 2026, our student Estefanía smashed it with a phenomenal presentation on her PhD project in the Junior Seminar series of the CBGP. Another obligatory step towards the defence of...
PCE Top viewed article 2025
It is time to celebrate. Our paper on the molecular basis of Serendipita indica-mediated plant growth promotion (see corresponding blog) has been awarded with the Plant, Cell & Environment .A big shout out the...
New Preprint on As tolerance enhancing fungus
Incredibly happy to see this project finally set fruits. We had to go through quite some headaches to eventually understand and explain the observed phenotype. Rodríguez-Dobreva E. et al. 2026 SSRN SynopsisArsenic (As) contamination...
New Chapter on ABA analytics is out
Happy to see that our book chapter on quantitative and qualitative ABA analysis techniques is finally out. Another notch in the swagger stick Rodríguez-Dobreva, E. et al. 2026 Synopsis Global agricultural productivity is...
New preprint on Seed Microbiota
Very happy that we were invited to participate in this very nice piece of work directed by the group of Natalia González Benítez and Carmen Molina from the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid....
