Tesis

Thesis defended the last years:

• Los cambios en el paisaje y su efecto sobre la distribución de especies: modelización y aplicación a la conservación de las aves de hábitats abiertos en paisajes mediterráneos
• Factores que limitan la regenerción natural de las especies mediterráneas del género Quercus L.  
• Grain yield and resource use efficiency of bread wheat, barley and durum wheat under Mediterranean environments
• Estudi de models matemàtics aplicats a la predicció d'epidèmies de la cendrosa de l'ordi (Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici)
• Hormonal regulation of the larval development of Sesamia nonagrioides

Year 2011

• Residual effects of alfalfa and pig slurry on maize and wheat under irrigated semirarid conditions.
• Molecular and physiological approaches to enhance the performance and productivity of rice.
• Towards the mineral biofortification of rice for food security.
• Patrones espacio-temporales de la colonización postincendio de las aves de hábitats abiertos en paisajes mediterráneos.
• Efecte del Panís transgènic Bt en artròpodes no diana.
• Mapeo por secuenciación de alto rendimiento y descubrimiento de SPNs en melocotonero.
• Biology studies and improvement of Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) mass trapping control technique.
• Estrategias para optimizar el uso del nitrógeno en cultivos extensivos de regadío del Valle del Ebro.

Year 2012

•  Morpho-physiological bases of spike fertility under contrasting nitrogen availability in durum wheat.
• Biotechnological interventions for crop improvement in the context of food security.
• Towards vitamin biofortification in staple cereal crops in a sociopolitical and food security context.
• Role of allyl esters in pest control.
• Utilidad de los recursos genéticos en mejora: potencial de las variedades tradicionales de trigo duro de la cuenca mediterránea para la mejora de la calidad y el valor agronómico en relación a su origen geográfico.
• Análisis de la población doble haploide de cebada, procedente del cruzamiento de Albacete x Plaisant, para el estudio de la translocación recíproca presente en Albacete.
• Relationships between primary and secondary growth in two Mediterranean Quercus species.
• Barley Adaptation to Stress Prone Environments.
• Cydia pomonella (L.) (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE). Aspectos de su taxonomía, comportamiento y monitoreo aplicados a programas de control en grandes áreas.
• Cytological, genetic and agronomic characterization of a barley reciprocal translocation.
• Genetic gains and changes in the pattern of adaptation of bread wheat varieties grown in Spain during the 20th century.
• Exploring de soil mycelium of two important edible ectomycorrhizal fungi, Lactarius deliciosus and Tuber melanosporum through the use of melecular techniques.
• Soil organic carbon dynamics and carbon sequestration in a semiarid Mediterranean agroecosystem: effects of conservation tillage and nitrogen fertilization.
• Estrategias reproductivas de dos especies de Frutos secos: almendro y nogal

Year 2013

• Estabilidad mutante sugary1 en maíz dulce
• Maize seeds as a production and delivery platform for HIV microbicides
• Useful eco-physiological traits for wheat breeding programs
• Differences in the genetic control of pre-heading phases in barley and wheat, and relationships with agronomic traïts
• Analysis of the efficiency in the Spanish National Barley Breeding Program. Past results and prospects for future improvements using molecular markers
• Stover management, organic and mineral nitrogen fertilization effects on maize production and soil quality under irrigated Mediterranean conditions
• Towards the engineering of the monoterpene secoiridoid pathway in transgenic tobacco plants
• Use of plant and soil water status sensors to manage deficit irrigation in woody trees under Mediterranean conditions
• Understanding and modulating vitamin C biosynthesis in corn and generating insect resistant corn plants expressing simultaneously multiple insecticidal genes
• Forest dynamics at the montane-subalpine ecotone in the Eastern Pyrenees
• Evaluation of Autumn Frost Resistance in Juglans regia L.
• Emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero y protección del carbono orgánico del suelo en secanos Mediterráneos: efectos del laboreo y de la estrategia de fertilización

Year 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.

Year 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.