Tesis

El compromís del Departament amb la recerca es posa de manifest, també, en la formació del personal investigador mitjançant la direcció de tesis doctorals. Des de 1992 s'han dirigit o presentat al departament més d'un centenar de tesis.

Any 2014

• Mechanistic investigations of carotenoid and ketocarotenoid biosynthesis in rice.
• Movement of predators in arable crop systems.
• Control biológico en cultivos hortícolas: Efecto de los alimentos suplementarios en depredadores y parasitoides.
• Enhancing biological control in apple orchards.
• Las atmósferas modificadas integradas con otras tecnologías como alternativas sostenibles para el control de plagas en productos alimentarios almacenados.
• Safety assessment and efficacy investigations of genetically engineered corn accumulating high levels of carotenoids.
• Molecular identification and feeding ecology of arthropod generalist predators present in Mediterranean lettuce crops.
• Contribución al conocimiento de la expresión fenotípica de variantes alélicas para los genes mayores Ppd-A1 y Ppd-B1 en trigo duro.
• Response of yield and physiological attributes to nitrogen availability and heat in maize.
• Rice endosperm as a production platform for third-generation HIV microbicides.
• The generation of biofortified and wee-resistant cereal plants through genetic engineering.
• Respuesta de cultivares de patata a la salinidad y potencial efecto protector del metil jasmonato frente al estrés salino.

Any 2015

• Caracterización de Phytophthora infestans y mejora genética para la resistencia en patata.
• Ecology, metereology and simulation of large wildland fires.
• Process of colonization of the host plant by Sesamia nonagrioides gravid females.
• Tree-species diversification in Sub-Mediterranean pine forests: drivers, consequences and management opcions .
• Desarrollo y transferibilidad de los microsatélites en Prunus y su aplicación en estudios de variabilidad.
• Efectos de los sistemas de labranza de los cereales sobre los organismos perjudiciales y beneficos del suelo en el sudeste bonaerense (Argentina).
• Bread and durum wheat performance under a wide range of environmental conditions.
• Mineral nitrogen fertilization and stover management effects on maize production under Irrigated Mediterranean conditions. Simulation of yields.
• Grain yield determinants in a traditional and a modern wheat cultivar under a wide range of conditions in a Mediterranean region. Source-sink relationships, components, resource capture and use efficiencies.
• Spatio-temporal modelling of stable isotopes in tree Mediterranean species (Quercus ilex L. and Pinus halepensis Mill.): a climatic and ecophysiological view.
• Physiological and molecular responses to salicylic acid in potato virus X-infected tomato and maize dwarf mosaic virus-infected maize.

Any 2016

• Unravelling herbicide resistance in corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas L.) to improve integrated weed management strategies.
• Fallow lands as a tool for farmland biodiversity conservation.
• Adapting the Decision Support System CPOWeeds to optimize weed control in northern Spanish conditions.
• A trait-based approach to disentangle the success of alien weeds in irrigated crops.
• Caracterización mecánica del abeto (Abies alba Mill.) procedente de la cordillera pirenaica.
• Seleccion in vitro para resistencia a boro y deoxinivalenol en cebada: marcadores asociados.
• Towards vitamin biofortification in maize through multigene engineering.
• Epidemiologia dels fitoplasmes dels fruiters de fruita dolça de la vinya a la Peninsula Ibèrica: identitat genètica, hostes, vectors, cicles i control.
• Mechanisms controlling the selective iron and zinc biofortification of rice.
• Evaluación agroambiental de la fertilización y nutrición fosfatada en el cultivo de papa (Solanum tuberosum L.).
• Towards engineering of photosynthesis in rice.
• Physiological determinants of fertile florets in wheat: variation between elite cultivars and effects of Ppd and Eps genes.

  Any 2017

• Assessing the effect of global change on plant functional structure, greenhouse gases, and soil functions in grasslands.
• Plant diversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes along different spatial scales.
• Changes in soil biodiversity and activity along management and climatic gradients.
• Spatio-temporal analysis of human-caused fire occurrence patterns in Spain.
• High carotenoid corn: agronomic evaluation and interactions with insect pests.
• Improvement of the nitrogen fertilization in irrigated Mediterranean environments.
• Social capital in rural areas and governance of economic instruments for Non-Wood Forest Products: the case of mushrooms in Catalonia.
• Dissecting genetic changes on wheat adaptation, yield formation and grain quality in Mediterranean environments.
• A trophic chain as indicator of agricultural practice change in maize.
• Water use patterns and physiological interactions in Submediterranean mixed forests: methodological challenges and implications for ecohydrology.
• Epidemiología de la Podredumbre Parda en fruta de hueso durante los principales procesos de postcosecha en centrales frutícolas.
• Effects of organic and mineral nitrogen fertilization of maize in irrigated Mediterranean environments.
• Evaluación de alternativas para el análisis estadístico y de aspectos del diseño en ensayos de larga duración para estudios agronómicos.
• Detoxification and sublethal effects of neurotoxic insecticides in tortricid moths.
• Caracterización de la respuesta a sequía e identificación de genes asociados al uso eficiente del agua (UEA) en portainjertos Prunus spp.
• Diversidad y extensión de los mecanismos de resistencia a insecticidas en poblaciones españolas de carpocapsa (Cydia pomonella (L.) Lepidoptera Tortricidae) y estudio de sus posibilidades de manejo.

Any 2018

• Desarrollo de métodos de predicción de la incidencia de 'bitter pit' en plantaciones de manzanas ‘Golden Smoothee’ (Malus domestica, L. Borkh.).
• Wheat developmental processes as affected by Ppd and Eps alleles and genetic variation within elite cultivars.
• Forest management and abiotic parameters effect on soil fungal communities inhabiting Mediterranean forest ecosystems.
• Species distribution models for birds: How useful are their outcomes for conservation applications?
• Innovación en técnicas de plantación forestal contra la sequía y la vegetación competidora en condiciones mediterráneas.
• Metabolic engineering and genome editing in rice.

Any 2019

• Acolchados y su efecto sobre el control y la biología de la juncia (Cyperus rotundus L.) o Mulches and their effect on control and biology of purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus L.).
• Metamitrona, una nueva herramienta para optimizar el aclareo químico en manzano.
• Assessing soil and canopy spatial variability in fruit orchards to improve management and sampling by using auxiliary information provided by proximal and remote sensors.
• Forest resilience and post-disturbance dynamics: the role of species composition and structure.
• Wildfire risk management in southern European landscapes: Towards a long‐term comprehensive strategy.
• Biofortification and Plant Stress: the Role of Azospirillum brasilense Sp7.
• The role of sustainable agricultural practices to mitigate greenhouse gases and to sequester soil carbon under newly irrigated Mediterranean agroecosystems.
• Isoprenoid and flavonoid biosynthesis and regulation in higher plants.
• Photoperiod response as a driver of flowering time in spring durum wheat and its influence on productivity, and environmental adaptability.
• New insights to durum wheat breeding in the genomics era through the exploration of a diversity panel of Mediterranean landraces.
• Habitat management in Mediterranean fruit orchards to foster pollinator and natural enemy communities.

Any 2020

• Vegetation drives greenhouse gas exchange, and carbon and nitrogen cycling in grassland ecosystems.
• Ground vegetation covers as a tool for weed management in vineyards.
• Fruit detection and 3D location using optical sensors and computer visión.
• Advances on spray drift assessment in 3d crops.
• Phenological adaptation and its genetic mechanisms in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).
• Characterization of capacitance soil moisture sensors for the automated scheduling of drip irrigation in orchards.
• Towards the characterisation of adaptive syndromes of Mediterranean pines: insights through innovative tree phenotyping techniques.
• Impacto del manejo del suelo y del sistema de riego y su gestión sobre las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero bajo condiciones mediterráneas.
• Integrated Pest Management in Maize at the Landscape Scale.
• Increasing the feasibility of General Surveillance of Genetically Modified maize.
• Towards an integrated control of peach powdery mildew (Podosphaera pannosa) through the application of molecular tools in epidemiological and genetic resistance studies.
• Understanding developmental processes responsible for adaptation- and yield- related traits in elite wheat germplasm.

Any 2021

• Elucidating the plant growth-promoting effects of three microorganisms on deciduous fruit tree plants using in vitro culture conditions.
• Effect of compounds from agricultural biodegradable plastics on the environment and on plant development.
• Pesticide dose adjustment in 3D crops.
• Procesos subyacentes a la mortalidad arbórea tras incendio.
• Effects of forest management, tree growth and climate on fungal communities.
• Molecular methods to study the movement of predatory arthropods between elements of the landscape: from topical marking to metagenomics.
• Unraveling biotic and environmental factors driving fungal dynamics.
• Sense and Sensitivity: on the biology and neuroethology of two tortricid moths.
• Redesigning rice for environmental sustainability, enhanced productivity and specialty uses.
• Plant-produced microbicides against the human immunodeficiency and severe acute respiratory symptom viruses.
• Hull-less and coloured-grain barley as a source of valuable healthy bioactive compounds.
• Bases ecològiques per a una gestió pastoral.
• Repoblación y gestión forestal en España desde el siglo XIX hasta la actualidad. Estudio de su desarrollo, fases históricas y resultados.
• Assessment of genomic and high-throughput phenotyping tools in a diversity panel of Mediterranean landraces and cultivars for wheat breeding under rainfed environments.
• Factores ecológicos y de gestión que afectan la producción trufera.