Phytopathology and Biological Control
Enrique Monte (emv@usal.es) & Rosa Hermosa (rhp@usal.es)
Department of Microbiology and Genetics
Hispano-Portuguese Institute of Agrarian Research (CIALE)
University of Salamanca
We work with Trichoderma in the biological control of diseases of agricultural interest and in the molecular dialogue of this fungus with the plant. We study the mechanisms by which strains of Trichoderma they exert their beneficial action on crops (tomato, wheat, olive, rapeseed and the arabidopsis model plant), either in the form of induction of systemic defense, growth promotion or attenuation of damage caused by environmental stresses. The group's lines of research are: i) Trichoderma and the tolerance of plants to drought, ii) secondary metabolites of Trichoderma, iii) metagenomics applied to the knowledge of the rhizobiomes of cultivated plants treated with Trichoderma, and iv) epigenetic footprints and transgenerational defense of the plant associated with Trichoderma.
Photograph from left to right: María Eugenia Morán Diez, Ángel Emilio Martínez de Alba, Enrique Monte, María Illescas, Alberto Pedrero Méndez, Fernando Martínez Clemente, Rosa Hermosa, Carlos Nicolás and María Belén Rubio.
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