• closedAccess   Mycorrhiza l tomato plants fine tunes the growth‐defencebalance upon N depleted root environments 

      Sánchez-Bel, Paloma; Sanmartín, Neus; Pastor, Victoria; Mateu Garcia, Diego; Cerezo García, Miguel; Vidal-Albalat, Andreu; Pastor Fernández, Julia; Pozo, Maria J.; Flors, Victor Wiley (2018)
      In low nutritive environments, the uptake of N by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi may confercompetitive advantages for the host. The present study aims to understand how mycorrhizaltomato plants perceive and then prepare ...
    • openAccess   Mycorrhizal Symbiosis Triggers Local Resistance in Citrus Plants Against Spider Mites 

      Manresa Grao, María; Pastor Fernández, Julia; Sánchez-Bel, Paloma; Jaques , Josep A.; Pastor, Victoria; Flors, Victor Frontiers Media (2022)
      Citrus plants are a highly mycotrophic species with high levels of fungal colonization. Citrus aurantium rootstocks typically show abundant root colonization by Rhizophagus irregularis three weeks after inoculation. ...
    • closedAccess   Oxylipin dynamics inMedicago truncatulain response to saltand wounding stresses 

      De Domenico, Stefania; Taurino, Marco; Gallo, Antonia; Poltronieri, Palmiro; Pastor, Victoria; Flors, Victor; Santino, Angelo Wiley (2019)
      Multiple stresses are becoming common challenges in modern agriculture dueto environmental changes. A large set of phytochemicals collectively knownas oxylipins play a key role in responses to several stresses. Understandingthe ...
    • closedAccess   Plant-mediated species networks: the modulating role of herbivore density 

      Pineda, Ana; Soler, Roxina; Pastor, Victoria; Li, Yehua; Dicke, Marcel Wiley (2017-08)
      1. When herbivores of distinct feeding guilds, such as phloem feeders and leaf chewers, interact, the outcome of these interactions often shows facilitation. However, whether this facilitation turns into competition at ...
    • openAccess   Preliminary study on the awareness of the SDGs in future primary school teachers 

      Vernia Carrasco, Ana M.; Pastor, Victoria; López-Navarro, Miguel Ángel Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València (2020)
      This preliminary study has been carried out with the objective of knowing the sensitivity and implication of future primary school teachers regarding the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The questionnaire used was ...
    • openAccess   Preparing to fight back: generation and storage of priming compounds 

      Pastor, Victoria; Balmer, Andrea; Gamir, Jordi; Flors, Victor; Mauch-Mani, Brigitte Frontiers (2014)
      Immune-stimulated plants are able to respond more rapidly and adequately to various biotic stresses allowing them to efficiently combat an infection. During the priming phase, plant are stimulated in absence of a challenge, ...
    • closedAccess   Primed plants do not forget 

      Pastor, Victoria; Luna Diez, Estrella; Mauch-Mani, Brigitte; Ton, Jurriaan; Flors, Victor Elsevier (2013)
      In their struggle for life, plants can employ sophisticated strategies to defend themselves against potentially harmful pathogens and insects. One mechanism by which plants can increase their level of resistance is by ...
    • openAccess   Quantification of Callose Deposition in Plant Leaves 

      Scalschi, Loredana; Llorens, Eugenio; Camañes, Gemma; Pastor, Victoria; Fernández Crespo, Emma; Flors, Victor; García Agustín, Pilar; Vicedo, Begonya Bio-protocol LLC (2015-10)
      Callose is an amorphous homopolymer, composed of β-1, 3-glucan, which is widespread in higher plants. Callose is involved in multiple aspects of plant growth and development. It is synthetized in plants at the cell plate ...
    • openAccess   Role and mechanisms of callose priming in mycorrhiza-induced resistance 

      Sanmartín, Neus; Pastor, Victoria; Pastor Fernández, Julia; Flors, Victor; Pozo, Maria J.; Sánchez-Bel, Paloma Oxford University Press (2020-05-09)
      Mycorrhizal plants display enhanced resistance to several pathogens. However, the molecular mechanisms regulating mycorrhiza-induced resistance (MIR) are still elusive. We aim to study the mechanisms underlying MIR against ...
    • closedAccess   Role of two UDP-Glycosyltransferases from the L group of arabidopsis in resistance against pseudomonas syringae 

      Boachon, Benoît; Gamir, Jordi; Pastor, Victoria; Erb, Matthias; Dean, John; Flors, Victor; Mauch-Mani, Brigitte Springer (2014)
      The role of the salicylic acid (SA) glycosides SA 2-O-β-D-glucose (SAG), SA glucose ester (SGE) and the glycosyl transferases UGT74F1 and UGT74F2 in the establishment of basal resistance of Arabidopsis against Pseudomonas ...
    • closedAccess   Root-to-shoot signalling in mycorrhizal tomato plants upon Botrytis cinerea infection 

      Sanmartín, Neus; Sánchez-Bel, Paloma; Pastor, Victoria; Pastor Fernández, Julia; Mateu Garcia, Diego; Pozo, Maria J.; Cerezo García, Miguel; Flors, Victor Elsevier (2020)
      Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis is restricted in roots, but it also improves shoot responses against leaf challenges, a phenomenon known as Mycorrhiza-Induced Resistance (MIR). This study focuses on mycorrhizal root signals ...
    • openAccess   Small Signals Lead to Big Changes: The Potential of Peptide-Induced Resistance in Plants 

      Pastor Fernández, Julia; Sánchez-Bel, Paloma; Flors, Victor; Cerezo García, Miguel; Pastor, Victoria MDPI (2023-02-16)
      The plant immunity system is being revisited more and more and new elements and roles are attributed to participating in the response to biotic stress. The new terminology is also applied in an attempt to identify different ...
    • closedAccess   Starch degradation, abscisic acid and vesicular trafficking areimportant elements in callose priming by indole-3-carboxylicacid in response toPlectosphaerella cucumerinainfection 

      Gamir, Jordi; Pastor, Victoria; Sánchez-Bel, Paloma; Agut, Blas; Mateu Garcia, Diego; García-Andrade, Javier; Flors, Victor Wiley (2018)
      A fast callose accumulation has been shown to mediate defence priming in certain plant–pathogen interac-tions, but the events upstream of callose assembly following chemical priming are poorly understood,mainly because ...
    • openAccess   Sugar shipping in arbuscular mycorrhiza protects tomato plants against Botrytis cinerea 

      Pastor, Victoria; Sánchez-Bel, Paloma; Sanmartín, Neus; Mateu Garcia, Diego; Pozo, Maria J.; Flors, Victor (2017-02)
    • openAccess   Systemic analysis of metabolome reconfiguration in Arabidopsis after abiotic stressors uncovers metabolites that modulate defense against pathogens 

      GARCIA-MOLINA, ANTONI; Pastor, Victoria Cell Press, Elsevier (2023-07-04)
      Understanding plant immune responses is complex because of the high interdependence among biological processes in homeostatic networks. Hence, the integration of environmental cues causes network rewiring that interferes ...
    • closedAccess   Targeting novel chemical and constitutive primed metabolites against Plectosphaerella cucumerina 

      Gamir, Jordi; Pastor, Victoria; Kaever, Alexander; Cerezo García, Miguel; Flors, Victor Wiley (2014)
      Priming is a physiological state for protection of plants against a broad range of pathogens, and is achievedthrough stimulation of the plant immune system. Various stimuli, such as beneficial microbes and chemicalinduction, ...
    • closedAccess   The 'prime-ome': towards a holistic approach to priming 

      Balmer, Andrea; Pastor, Victoria; Gamir, Jordi; Flors, Victor; Mauch-Mani, Brigitte Elsevier (2015-07)
      Plants can be primed to respond faster and more strongly to stress and multiple pathways, specific for the encountered challenge, are involved in priming. This adaptability of priming makes it difficult to pinpoint an exact ...
    • openAccess   The Arabidopsis thaliana N-recognin E3 ligase PROTEOLYSIS1 influences the immune response 

      Till, Christopher; Vicente, Jorge; Zhang, Hongtao; Oszvald, Maria; Deery, Michael J.; Pastor, Victoria; Lilley, Kathryn; Ray, Rumiana; Theodoulou, Frederica L.; Holdsworth, Michael Wiley (2019)
      N-degron pathways of ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis (formerly known as the N-end rule pathway) control the stability of substrate proteins dependent on the amino-terminal (Nt) residue. Unlike yeast or mammalian N-recognin ...
    • openAccess   The Induced Resistance Lexicon: Do’s and Don’ts 

      De Kesel, Jonas; Conrath, Uwe; Flors, Victor; Luna Diez, Estrella; Mageroy, Melissa; Mauch-Mani, Brigitte; Pastor, Victoria; Pozo, Maria J.; Pieterse, Corné; Ton, Jurriaan; Kyndt, Tina Elsevier (2021-07-30)
      To be protected from biological threats, plants have evolved an immune system comprising constitutive and inducible defenses. For example, upon perception of certain stimuli, plants can develop a conditioned state of ...
    • openAccess   The role of photoprotection in defence of two wheat genotypes against Zymoseptoria tritici 

      Ajigboye, Olubukola; Jayaweera, Dasuni; Ruban, Alexander; Murchie, Erik; Pastor, Victoria; Summers, Richard; Ray, Rumiana British Society for Plant Pathology (2021-05-07)
      This study provides new insights into the role of photoprotection in preformed and induced defence of two wheat genotypes with contrasting phenotypes to infection by Zymoseptoria tritici. We investigated the mechanisms of ...