
M. GarnicaUniversidad de Navarra | UNAV · Department of Environmental Biology
M. Garnica
PhD Biology
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Background
Ascophyllum Nodosum (L.) Extracts (ANE), even at low concentrations, are reported to behave as plant growth promoters and inducers of resistance to diverse abiotic and biotic stresses. However, the mechanisms regulating ANE's actions on plant metabolism have not been fully described. This study has two main objectives: (1) to investigate...
Arsenic poses a global threat to living organisms, compromising crop security and yield. Limited understanding of the transcriptional network integrating arsenic‐tolerance mechanisms with plant developmental responses hinders the development of strategies against this toxic metalloid.
Here, we conducted a high‐throughput yeast one‐hybrid assay usin...
Many studies have shown the capacity of soil humic substances (HS) to improve plant growth in natural ecosystems. This effect involves the activation of different processes within the plant at different coordinated molecular, biochemical, and physiological levels. However, the first event triggered by plant root-HS interaction remains unclear. Some...
Many studies have shown the close relationship between the beneficial action of soil and sedimentary humic acids on the growth of plants cultivated in calcareous soils and their ability to improve Fe plant nutrition. These results have been ascribed to the humic acid (HA) capability to improve Fe solubility and bioavailability. However, other effec...
The role of soil humus in soil fertility and crop production has been well established by many studies and practical farming experience. This role is related to the presence of a family of organic substances, known as humic substances, with the capacity to increase the pool of plant-available nutrients in soil for root uptake. The improvement in pl...
Although the ability of humic (HA) and fulvic acids (FA) to improve plant growth has been demonstrated, knowledge about the mechanisms responsible for the direct effects of HA and FA on the promotion of plant growth is scarce and fragmentary. Our study investigated the causal role of both root PM H+‐ATPase activity and ABA in the SHA‐promoting acti...
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The release of phytosiderephores (PS) to the rhizosphere is the main root response to iron (Fe) deficiency in graminaceous plants. We have investigated the role of the Fe status in the shoot as well as of the signaling pathways controlled by three relevant phytoregulators - indolacetic acid (IAA), ethylene and nitric oxide (NO) - in th...
It has been very well stablished that plant nitrogen (N) use efficiency is severely impaired by sulfur (S) deficiency. However the mechanisms behind this fact are not very well known yet.
Several works have demonstrated that the shoot growth promoting action of nitrate is closely linked to the root to shoot translocation of active cytokinins (Saka...
The ability of rhizospheric humic substances to improve plant growth has been well established by many studies carried out using diverse plant species cultivated under many different conditions. These beneficial effects of humic substances on plant development are expressed in both root and shoot. However, the mechanisms responsible for this action...
Numerous studies have shown the ability of humic substances to improve plant development. This action is normally reflected in an enhancement of crop yields and quality. However, the mechanisms responsible for this action of humic substances remain rather unknown. Our studies have shown that the shoot promoting action of sedimentary humic acids is...
The physiological and metabolic mechanisms behind the humic acid-mediated plant growth enhancement are highly discussed. Experiments using cucumber plants show that the shoot growth enhancement caused by a structurally well characterized humic acid with sedimentary origin is functionally associated with significant increases in ABA root concentrati...
Higher plants have to cope with fluctuating mineral resource availability. However, strategies such as stimulation of root growth, increased transporter activities, and nutrient storage and remobilization have been mostly studied for only a few macronutrients. Leaves of cultivated crops (Zea mays, Brassica napus, Pisum sativum, Triticum aestivum, H...
Although climate scenarios have predicted an increase in [CO2 ] and temperature conditions, to date few experiments have focused on the interaction of [CO2 ] and temperature effects in wheat development. Recent evidence suggests that photosynthetic acclimation is linked to the photorespiration and N assimilation inhibition of plants exposed to elev...
The importance of zinc (Zn) has been of little concern in human nutrition despite a strong decrease of this element in crops since the rise of high yielding varieties. For better food quality, Zn biofortification can be used, but will be optimal only if mechanisms governing Zn management are better known. Using Zn deficiency, we are able to demonst...
During the last 40 years, crop breeding has strongly increased yields but has had adverse effects on the content of micronutrients, such as Fe, Mg, Zn and Cu, in edible products despite their sufficient supply in most soils. This suggests that micronutrient remobilization to edible tissues has been negatively selected. As a consequence, the aim of...
This study examines the extent to which the predicted CO2 -protective effects on the inhibition of growth, impairment of photosynthesis and nutrient imbalance caused by saline stress are mediated by an effective adaptation of the endogenous plant hormonal balance. Therefore, sweet pepper plants (Capsicum annuum, cv. Ciclón) were grown at ambient or...
The main aim of this communication is to discuss the current knowledge about the potential direct mechanisms that are involved in the beneficial action of humic substances on plant development. To this end, we present and discuss here recent results obtained in our laboratory, along with other findings published by other authors. Finally, we propos...
Different strategies, known as crop biofortification, can be used to increase micronutrient concentrations in harvested parts to reduce nutrient deficiencies in the human diet. Apart from fertilization and genetic selection, a more environmentally friendly, less expensive, and more immediate solution could rely on the use of biostimulants derived f...
Despite its high capacity to take up nitrate from soil, winter rapeseed (Brassica napus) is characterized by a low N recovery in seeds. Thus, to maintain yield, rapeseed requires a high fertilization rate. Increasing nutrient use efficiency in rapeseed by addition of a biostimulant could help improve its agroenvironmental balance. The effects of ma...
Supplementary Table 1 List of the differentially expressed genes in shoots and roots of rapeseed after 3 days of AZAL5 supply to the roots
Supplementary Table 2 List of the differentially expressed genes in shoots and roots of rapeseed after 30 days of AZAL5 supply to the roots
The main aim of this communication is to discuss the current knowledge about the potential direct mechanisms that are involved in the beneficial action of humic substances on plant development. To this end, we present and discuss here recent results obtained in our laboratory, along with other findings published by other authors. Finally, we propos...
The aims of this chapter are: (i) First, to present new experimental evidence showing the signal-role of nitrate in the correction and improvement of the deleterious effects of ammonium- and/or urea-based nutrition in different plant species, either dicotyledonous or monocotyledonous. Likewise, we discuss the different and complementary mechanisms,...
Winter rapeseed (Brassica napus) is characterized by a low N recovery in seeds and requires high rates of fertilization to maintain yield. Its nutrient use efficiency could be improved by addition of a biostimulant such as humic acids whose physiological effects have been described previously in some plant species. However, to our knowledge, no stu...
A number of studies have shown the ability of natural organic matter (NOM) in general and humic substances (HS) in particular, to affect the development of plants and microorganisms in many different natural ecosystems and agro-ecosystems. Regarding plants, these NOM and HS effects were expressed in both root growth and architecture, and shoot grow...
List of the differentially expressed genes in shoots and roots of rapeseed after 3 days of HA7 supply to the roots.
List of the differentially expressed genes in shoots and roots of rapeseed after 30 days of HA7 supply to the roots.
Background and aims
Urea is the major nitrogen (N) form supplied as fertilizer in agriculture. However, urease, a nickel-dependent enzyme, allows plants to use external or internally generated urea as a nitrogen source. Since a urease inhibitor is frequently applied in conjunction with urea fertilizer, the N-metabolism of plants may be affected. Th...
The use of urea as an N fertilizer has increased to such an extent that it is now the most widely used fertilizer in the world. However, N losses as a result of ammonia volatilization lead to a decrease in its efficiency, therefore different methods have been developed over the years to reduce these losses. One of the most recent involves the use o...
Ammonium can result in toxicity symptoms in many plants when supplied as a sole nitrogen source. Nitrate reduces the negative effects caused by ammonium and promotes plant growth. In order to explore the mechanism responsible of this beneficial effect, we investigated whether nitrate application causes significant changes in the indoleacetic acid (...
In certain plant species, ammonium or urea nutrition can cause negative effects on plant development which can result in toxic symptoms. Some authors suggest that the presence of nitrate can alleviate these symptoms by increasing ammonium and urea assimilation, avoiding its accumulation. In order to study this hypothesis, wheat (Triticum aestivum L...
BACKGROUND: Some authors suggest that nitrate improves the effects of ammonium and urea nutrition on plant growth via an increase in both the root uptake of ammonium and urea, and the further activation of its assimilation. In order to verify these hypotheses, wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) seedlings were grown with various nitrogen supplies contain...
In order to investigate the possible involvement of nitrate in regulating free-putrescine accumulation induced by ammonium nutrition, we studied the plant concentration of free, no-covalently conjugated and covalently conjugated polyamines associated with nitrogen nutrition involving different nitrogen forms (ammonium and nitrate) in two plant spec...
In order to explore the mechanisms of nitrate's beneficial effect on ammonium-grown plants, we investigated the effects of nitrate on free and conjugated polyamine plant content and ethylene biosynthesis in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) plants grown with ammonium nutrition. Two different doses of nitrate (100 microM and 5 mM) were supplied to ammoni...
BACKGROUND: The presence of stable mixed nitrogen forms (such as nitrate/ammonium/urea or nitrate/urea) in the soil solution is due to the use of nitrification and/or urease inhibitors in urea-based fertilisers. However, there is no specific information in the literature comparing the efficiency of these urea mixed nitrogen forms as a nitrogen sour...
In order to investigate the possible involvement of free polyamines and proline in the mechanism underlying the action of nitrate in correcting the negative effects associated with ammonium and urea nutrition in certain plant species, we studied plant contents of free polyamines and proline associated with nitrogen nutrition involving different nit...
The effect of IAA and two IAA precursors, l-tryptophan (Trp) and indole (Ind), on the growth, mineral nutrition and potential development under stress conditions of intact pepper plants cultivated in hydroponic conditions, has been studied.To this end, the growth of both shoots and roots, the plant content of both IAA and free polyamines and the co...