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Plant Physiology and Agrobiology

César Arrese-Igor (IP)

Professor

C-3608-2008

0000-0002-2195-4458

cesarai@unavarra.es

PHONE NUMBER

+34-948-169119

Otros miembros

Pedro M. Aparicio Tejo

Professor

Mercedes Royuela

Professor

Esther M. González

Associated Professor

José F. Morán

Associated Professor

Ana Zabalza

Assistant Professor

Berta Lasa

Assistant Professor

Estíbaliz Larrainzar

Postdoc, Ramón y Cajal program

Idoia Ariz

Postdoc, JIN program

Miriam Gil

Postdoc, Research Assistant

Mª Isabel Rubia

PhD student

Ainhoa Zulet

PhD student

Javier Buezo

PhD student

Andrés Echeverría

PhD student

Mikel Rivero

PhD student

David Soba

PhD student

Pedro López

PhD student

María Barco

PhD student

Mikel Vicente

PhD student

Marina Urra

PhD student

Verónica Castañeda

PhD student

Libertad Cobos

PhD student

Gustavo Garijo

PhD student

Research lines

  • Nitrogen fixation in legumes: metabolic regulation and agricultural aspects.
  • Plant root mechanisms involved in responses to drought.
  • Nitrogen in agriculture (including basic aspects of plant ammonium tolerance and the use of natural and synthetic nitrification inhibitors)
  • Herbicides inhibiting amino acids biosynthesis: mode of action and resistance
  • Plant antioxidants: bio- and nanotechnological applications Señalización redox y antioxidantes en plantas: aplicaciones bio- y nano-tencológicas

Representative publications

  • Rubia MI, Ramachandran VK, Arrese-Igor C, Larrainzar E, Poole PS (2020) A novel biosensor to monitor proline in pea root exudates and nodules under osmotic stress and recovery. Plant Soil 452: 413-422.
  • Larrainzar E, Villar I, Rubio MC, Pérez-Rontomé C, Huertas R, Sato S, Mun J-H, Becana M (2020) Hemoglobins in the legume-Rhizobium New Phytol 228: 472-484.
  • Villar I, Larrainzar E, Milazzo L, Pérez-Rontomé C, Rubio MC, Smulevich G, Martínez JI, Wilson MT, Reeder B, Huertas R, Abbruzzetti S, Udvardi M, Becana M (2020) A plant gene encoding one-heme and two-heme hemoglobins with extreme reactivities towards diatomic gases and nitrite. Front Plant Sci 11: 600336 (doi:3389/fpls.2020.600336).
  • Zulet-González A, Barco-Antoñanzas M, Gil-Monreal M, Royuela M, Zabalza A (2020) Increased Glyphosate-Induced Gene Expression in the Shikimate Pathway Is Abolished in the Presence of Aromatic Amino Acids and Mimicked by Shikimate. Front Plant Sci doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00459.
  • Soba D, Shu T, Runion GB, Prior SA, Fritschi FB, Aranjuelo I, Sanz-Saez A (2020) Effects of elevated [CO2] on photosynthesis and seed yield parameters in two soybean genotypes with contrasting water use efficiency. Environ Exp Bot 178:
  • Santos LCN, Barreto RF, Prado RM, Silva GP, Santos, JMR, Lasa B, Aparicio-Tejo PM, Aranjuelo I, Carvalho RF (2020) The auxin-resistant dgt tomato mutant grows less than the wild type but is less sensitive to ammonium toxicity and nitrogen deficiency. J Plant Physiol 252: 153-243.
  • Aldasoro J, Larrainzar E, Arrese-Igor C (2019) Application of anti-transpirants temporarily alleviates the inhibition of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in drought-stressed pea plants. Agric Water Manag 213: 193-199.
  • Buezo J, Sanz-Saez A, Moran JF, Soba D, Aranjuelo I, Esteban R (2019) Drought tolerance response of high-yielding soybean varieties to mild drought: physiological and photochemical adjustments. Physiol Plantarum 166: 88-104.
  • Castañeda V, de la Peña M, Azcárate L, Aranjuelo I, Gonzalez EM (2019) Functional analysis of the taproot and fibrous roots of Medicago truncatula: sucrose and proline catabolism primary response to water deficit. Agric Water Manag 216: 473-483.
  • Soba D, Zhou B, Arrese-Igor C, Munné-Bosch S, Aranjuelo I (2019) Physiological, hormonal and metabolic responses of two alfalfa cultivars with contrasting responses to drought. Int J Mol Sci 20: 5099 (doi: 10.3390/ijms20205099).
  • Gil-Monreal M, Giuntoli B, Zabalza A, Licausi, F, Royuela M (2019) ERF-VII transcription factors induce ethanol fermentation in response to amino acid biosynthesis-inhibiting herbicides. J Exp Bot 70: 5839-5851.
  • Buezo J, Esteban R, Cornejo A, López-Gómez P, Marino D, Chamizo A, Gil MJ, Martínez-Merino V, Moran JF (2019) IAOx induces the SUR phenotype and differential signalling from IAA under different types of nitrogen nutrition in Medicago truncatula Plant Sci 287: 110176 (doi: 10.1016/plantsci.2019.110176).
  • Rodrigues JM, Lasa, B, Betti M, Fernández-Irigoyen J, Santamaría E, González-Murua C, Aparicio-Tejo PM, Marino D (2019) Multi-omic and physiologic approach to understand Lotus japonicus response upon exposure to 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate nitrification inhibitor. Sci Total Environ 660: 1201-1209.
  • Royo, B, Esteban, R, Buezo J, Santamaría E, Fernández-Irigoyen J, Becker D, Moran JF (2019) The proteome of Medicago truncatula in response to ammonium and urea nutrition reveals the role of membrane proteins and enzymes of root lignification. Environ Exp Bot 162: 168-180.
  • Iturralde E, Covelli, J, Alvarez F, Perez-Gimenez J, Arrese-Igor C, Lodeiro A (2019) Soybean-nodulating strains with low intrinsic competitiveness for nodulation, good symbiotic performance, and stress-tolerance isolated from soybean-cropped soils in Argentina. Front Microbiol 10: 161 (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01061).

Grants

  • Aparicio-Tejo PM (IP), Arrese-Igor C (co-IP), Larrainzar E, Lasa B, Irigoyen I, Arregui LM, Muro J, Rivero M, Cobos L, Rubia MI (2019-2021) Use of synthetic and biological nitrification inhibitors and organic fertilizers for efficient N-management in agrosystems. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. RTI2018-094623-B-C22.
  • González EM (IP), Peralta FJ, Echeverria A, Marzo A, Ariz, I, Biescas E, Fernández-Escalada M, Ladrera, R, Lasarte MJ (2019-2021) An integration of research approaches of citizen science for secondary school programmes. Government of Navarre. CENEDUCA3/2019.
  • Morán JF (IP), Cornejo A, Martínez-Merino, VJ, Gil MJ, Chamizo A, Buezo J, López P, Royo B, Urra M (2018-2020) Indolic oximes and polyamine metabolism and their signalling function in plants under different nitrogen nutrition regimes during development and their response to stress. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. AGL2017-86293-P.
  • Royuela M (IP) Zabalza A, Gil-Monreal M, Fernández-Escalada M, Zulet-González A, Barco M, Vicente M, Gaines T (2016-2020) A physiological approach to the mode of action and resistance to herbicides: a challenge for an integrated management. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. AGL2016-77531-R.
  • Arrese-Igor C (IP), Larrainzar E, Aldasoro J, Rubia MI, Cobos L (2015-2018) Factors involved in the regulation of nitrogen fixation in legumes and their implications in productivity under optimal conditions and environmental constraints. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. AGL2014-56561-P.

Patents

  • Aparicio-Tejo PM, Irigoien I, Ariz I, Cruchaga S, Lasa B, Muro J (2013) Inhibidores de la ureasa capaces de disminuir el contenido de nitratos en hortalizas. ES P201330836.
  • Morán JF, Larrainzar E, Urarte, E; Auzmendi I, González EM, Arrese-Igor C, Ariz I (2007). In vitro method of quantifying oxidative/ nitrosative/ nitrative stress and/or selecting compounds with antioxidant activity. PCT 2008/070144.

Relevant methods

  • In vivo determination of nitrogen fixation by H2 evolution
  • Capillary electroforesis with diode array and fluorescence detection
  • High performance ionic cromatography coupled to conductivity and amperometric-pulse detection

Collaborations with other national and international research groups

  • Phil S. Poole, Francesco Licausi, Renier van der Hoorn (University of Oxford, UK)
  • Stefanie Wienkoop (University of Vienna, Austria)
  • Manuel Becana (EEAD-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain)
  • Nicolaus von Wirén (IPK. Leibnitz, Germany)
  • Andreas Niebel, Fernanda de Carvalho-Niebel (Castanet-Tolosan, France)
  • Aníbal Lodeiro (UNLP, Argentina)
  • Cristina Cruz (University of Lisboa, Portugal)
  • Douglas R Cook (University of California-Davis, USA)
  • Anna Marini (Univ Libre Bruxelles, Belgium)
  • María J. Delgado (Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Granada, Spain)
  • Carmen González-Murua, Daniel Marino (Univ. País Vasco, Spain)
  • Todd Gaines (Colorado State Univ. USA)
  • Dorothea Bartels (University of Bonn, Germany)
  • Lam-Son (Phan Tran, RIKEN, Kanagawa. Japan)
  • José María García-Mina (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)
  • Joaquín Fernández-Irigoyen, Enrique Santamaría (NavarraBiomed, Navarra, Spain)
  • Iker Aranjuelo (IdAB-CSIC. Navarra, Spain)