Associations of symbiotic bacteria with plants
JOSÉ MANUEL PALACIOS ALBERTI, LUIS REY NAVARRO, MARTA ALBAREDA CONTRERAS
jose.palacios@upm.es | luis.rey@upm.es | marta.albareda@upm.es
Our research group “Associations of symbiotic bacteria with plants” is directed by Professor José M. Palacios and has been carrying out its scientific work since 2010 in the Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP), a mixed center Polytechnic University of Madrid – National Institute of Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA)/CSIC.
The main line of research of the group is the study of new mechanisms of adaptation of rhizobia to symbiosis with leguminous plants, a process of great environmental and agricultural importance and that contributes significantly to the sustainability of different agroecosystems.
Our group pursues three main objectives:
- Analysis of the mechanisms of stress tolerance of rhizobia derived from energy limitations, metal acquisition and competition in the rhizosphere.
- Identification of the functions linked to the type III and type VI secretion systems of different rhizobia in the interaction with their host legume and in the rhizosphere. We are interested in studying these systems in synthetic microbial communities (SynComs).
- Characterization of new legume rhizobia and the generation of effective and competitive rhizobial inoculants.
Photography: from left to right: Alejandra Sanz, Marta Ballesteros, Diego Gómez, Bruna de Sousa, Marta Albareda, Joanna Soldek, Lucía Domingo, José M Palacios, Luis Rey and Rodrigo Gómez.
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