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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....

17th SEBP Phytohormones Symposium 2026

On Monday and Tuesday, our lab will actively participate in the 17th Phytohormones Symposium 2026 of the SEBP which will be held at the Universidad Miguel Hernández in Elche, Alicante between the 2nd and...

Welcome Elisa and Marta

Over the past few days, we welcomed two new members to our laboratory, . Elisa is a PhD student from the Biotechnology, Ecology and Sustainability (BES) Unit at the University of Parma, where she...