Plant-Microorganism Interaction
Pedro F. Mateos González (IP)
Professor
PHONE NUMBER
+34-923-294500 (ext. 1911)
José Mariano Igual Arroyo (IP)
Tenured Scientist CSIC
PHONE NUMBER
+34-923-219606 (ext. 255)
Other group members
Rocío Roca Couso
Postdoc
Muhammad Khashi U Rahman
Postdoc
Rocío Olmo López
Postdoc
Fernando Santos Beneit
Postdoc
Irene Frontela Gutiérrez
PhD Student
Lihuén Iraí González Dominici
PhD Student
Mónica Majo Cuervo
PhD Student
Cristina Frade Lago
PhD Student
Laura Vaca Igualador
PhD Student
Lauren García Chávez
PhD Student
Research lines
- Symbiosis Rhizobium-legume
- Beneficial microorganism–plant interactions
- Microbial biodiversity and taxonomy
- Biotechnological applications of plant endophytes in agri-food and sustainability processes
- Microbial ecology of the rhizosphere
Representative publications
- Khashi u Rahman M, Saati-Santamaría Z, García-Fraile P (2025) Intercropping of non-leguminous crops improves soil biochemistry and crop productivity: a meta-analysis. New Phytologist 246: 961-971.
- Igual JM, Andrades MS, Frade C, Carpio MJ, Marín-Benito JM, Rodríguez-Cruz MS, Valverde A (2024) Impacts of spent mushroom substrate amendment and season on microbial communities in a semiarid vineyard soil. Applied Soil Ecology 203: 105689.
- Carro L, Golińska P, Saati-Santamaría Z, Igual JM, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M (2024) Atacama desert is a source of new Micromonospora strains: description of Micromonospora sicca sp. nov. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 47 (5): 126542.
- Martinez-Romero E, Peix A, Hungria M, Mousavi SA, Martinez-Romero J, Young P (2024) Guidelines for the description of rhizobial symbiovars. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 74(5): 006373.
- Roca-Couso R, Flores-Félix JD, Deb S, Giagnoni L, Tondello A, Stevanato P, Squartini A, García-Fraile P and Rivas R (2024) Metataxonomic analysis of endophytic bacteria of blackberry (Rubus ulmifolius Schott) across tissues and environmental conditions. Scientific Reports 14: 13388.
- Saati-Santamaría Z, Vicentefranqueira R, Kolařik M, Rivas R, García-Fraile P. (2023). Microbiome specificity and fluxes between two distant plant taxa in Iberian forests. Environmental Microbiome 18: 64.
- Ayuso-Calles M, Flores-Félix JD, Amaro F, García-Estévez I, Jiménez-Gómez A, Guedes de Pinho P, Escribano-Bailón MT, Rivas R. (2023) Effect of Rhizobium mechanisms in improving tolerance to saline stress in lettuce plants. Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 10: 89.
- Benitez-Alfonso Y, Soanes BK, Zimba S, Sinanaj B German L, Sharma V, Bohra A, Kolesnikova A, Dunn JA, Martin AC, Khashi u Rahman M, Saati-Santamaría Z, García-Fraile P, Ferreira EA, Frazão LA, Cowling WA, Siddique KHM, Pandey MK, Farooq M, Varshney RK, Chapman MA, Boesch C, Daszkowska-Golec A, Foyer CH (2023). Enhancing climate change resilience in agricultural crops. Current Biology 33 (23): R1246-R1261.
- Martínez-Hidalgo P, Flores-Félix JD, Sánchez-Juanes F, Rivas R, Mateos PF, Santa Regina I, Peix Á, Martínez-Molina E, Igual JM, Velázquez E (2021). Identification of Canola Roots Endophytic Bacteria and Analysis of Their Potential as Biofertilizers for Canola Crops with Special Emphasis on Sporulating Bacteria. Agronomy 11: 1796
- Moreno G, Hernández-Esteban A, Rolo V, Igual JM (2021) The enduring effects of sowing legume-rich mixtures on the soil microbial community and soil carbon in semi-arid wood pastures. Plant and Soil 465 (1-2): 563-582.
Grants
- Paula García Fraile (IP), José David Flores Félix, Lihuén Iraí González Dominici, Muhammad Khashi U Rahman, Raúl Rivas González, Zaki Saati (2024-2028) Estudio la importancia de las poliaminas bacterianas en la simbiosis entre el canola y Pseudomonas. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. PID2023-150384NB-I00.
- José Mariano Igual Arroyo (IP), Angel Valverde Portal (co-IP) (2024-2028) MITIGASMART. Evaluación de la combinación de biocarbón y leguminosas para la adaptación y mitigación del cambio climático en la dehesa: el papel de los microorganismos del suelo. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. PID2023-151577NB-C21.
- Lorena Carro (IP), Pedro F Mateos, Raúl Rivas Zaki Saati (2024-2028) Explorando anti-superbacterias en cepas del desierto: un enfoque novedoso para revelar metabolitos con aplicaciones clínicas y agrícolas en zonas semidesérticas españolas. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2023-150046OB-I00
- Jaco Le Roux (IP), Angel Valverde Portal (2024-2028). A network perspective for ecosystem responses to plant invasion. Australian Research Council. DP2401012143.
- Esther Menéndez Gutiérrez (IP), Pedro F Mateos, Zaki Saati (2023-2026) Rhizo-attachment and biofilm formation of complex soil bacterial communities: common and unique roles in their interactions with crops (RhiZoBioS). Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2022-138373NA- I00
- Lorena Carro (2023-2027) EC2U: European Campus of City-Universities. Comisión Europea. 18.8596/324MB05
- José David Flores (IP), Paula Garcia Fraile (2023-2026) CARBACSOIL. Management of post-fire soil employing nitrogen-fixing bacteria to improve carbon soils stocks. Unión Europea. 8926-8553.
- Paula García Fraile (IP), Lorena Carro, Pedro F Mateos, Raúl Rivas González, Zaki Saati (2022-2026) Modelling integrated biodiversity-based next generation Mediterranean farming systems. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. PCI2022-132990.
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- García-Fraile P (IP de WP), Mateos PF, Velázquez E, Rivas R (2022-2025) Modelling integrated biodiversity-based next generation Mediterranean farming systems. PRIMA/Agencia Española de Investigación. BIOMEnext.
Patents
- Celador Lera L, Flores Félix JD, Mateos PF, Eustoquio Martínez-Molina E, Velázquez E, Rivas R (2017) Cepa de Rhizobium leucaenae y su uso como biofertilizante. Nº de solicitud: P201530349.
- Velázquez E, García-Fraile P, Ramírez-Bahena MH, Carro L, Mateos PF, Rivas R, Martínez-Molina E (2011) Biofertilizante para plantas no leguminosas a base de cepas de rhizobia. Nº de solicitud: P201131656.
- García-Seco, Cristina Comas, Manel Montaño, Anna Arola, Álvaro Peix (2023) Cepa de bacteria capaz de oxidar azufre elemental y su uso para promover el crecimiento de las plantas. Nº solicitud: P202330869
Relevant methods
- Analyses of plant growth promotion mechanisms
- Sequencing and analyses of bacterial genomes
- Metagenomics of plant-microbe interactions
- Transcriptomics of plant-microbe interactions
- Bacterial mutagenesis for the study of plant-microbe interactions
- Assessment of microbial communities structure through phospholipid fatty acids analysis
Collaborations with other national and international groups
- Miroslav Kolarik, Petr Baldrian (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Prague, Czech Republic)
- Euan K James (The James Hutton Institute, UK)
- Janet I Sprent (University of Dundee, UK)
- Maria Rita Scotti (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
- Frank B. Dazzo (Michigan State University, USA)
- Ann M Hirsch (California University of Los Ángeles, USA)
- Esperanza Martínez-Romero (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
- Andrea Squartini (Università degli studi di Padova, Italia)
- Allan Downie (John Innes Centre, UK)
- Phil Poole (University of Reading, UK)
- Clarisse Brigido (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
- Sheng Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)
- Nelly Selem-Mojica (Cinvestav-IPN, Irapuato, Mexico)
- Sanja Sikora (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Don A. Cowan (University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa)
- David M. Richardson (Stellenbosch University, Republic of South Africa)
- Johannes J. Le Roux (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Michael Goodfellow, Hans-Peter Klenk, Mª Carmen Montero-Calasanz (Newcastle University, UK)
- Hilal Ay (Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey)
- Patrycja Golińska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
- Brent A. Lasker, John R. McQuiston (National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, USA)
- Gianni Della Rocca (IPSP-CNR, Torino, Italy)
- Julio Camarero, Juan J. Jiménez (Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología-CSIC, Jaca, Spain)
- Milagros León-Barrios (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
- José Manuel Palacios, Juan Imperial (Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Madrid, Spain)
- Gerardo Moreno Marcos, Miguel Escribano Sánchez (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain)
- Julio Díez Casero, Pablo Martín Pinto (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain)
- George DiCenzo (Queen’s University, Canada)
