Teresa Garnatje

• PhD
• Spanish National Research Council

Eivissa/Ibiza, as per its names in its two official languages, Catalan and Spanish, is the third of the Balearic Islands in terms of extension and the second concerning population. It is also a well-known holiday destination in Europe. Numerous ethnobotanical prospections have been performed in the Balearic Islands, but to date, Ibiza lacks a monog...

Background Cannabis sativa L. (Cannabaceae) has been widely used by humans throughout its history for a variety of purposes (medicinal, alimentary and other uses). Armenia, with its rich cultural history and diverse ecosystems, offers a unique context for ethnobotanical research about traditional uses of Cannabis . The present work aims to study an...

The reference genome of Cheirolophus tagananensis, locally known as the Cabezon de Taganana, will provide an exceptional opportunity to establish a new framework to develop comparative genomic tools. These tools will help uncover the genetic basis of rapid plant radiations and microevolutionary adaptation processes of insular species on oceanic isl...

Karyological study of selected Iridaceae taxa from Greece

Cannabis has provided important and versatile services to humans for millennia. Domestication and subsequent dispersal have resulted in various landraces and cultivars. Unravelling the phylogeography of this genus poses considerable challenges due to its complex history. We relied on a Hyb-Seq approach (combining target capture with shotgun sequenc...

Ethnobotany of Artistic Plant Uses. Crop Art in Baix Llobregat (Catalonia, NE Iberian Peninsula)

The Catalan Initiative for the Earth BioGenome Project (CBP) is an EBP-affiliated project network aimed at sequencing the genome of the >40 000 eukaryotic species estimated to live in the Catalan-speaking territories (Catalan Linguistic Area, CLA). These territories represent a biodiversity hotspot. While covering less than 1% of Europe, they are h...

Reconstructing evolutionary trajectories and transitions that have shaped floral diversity relies heavily on the phylogenetic framework on which traits are modelled. In this study, we focus on the angiosperm order Ranunculales, sister to all other eudicots, to unravel higher-level relationships, especially those tied to evolutionary transitions in...

The iconic, palmately compound leaves of Cannabis have attracted significant attention in the past. However, investigations into the genetic basis of leaf shape or its connections to phytochemical composition have yielded inconclusive results. This is partly due to prominent changes in leaflet number within a single plant during development, which...

Peri-urban regions, especially in the Mediterranean, face challenges like farmland loss due to urban pressure. This study emphasizes retail stores as strategic focal points for evaluating societal, economic, and production systems. It hypothesizes that analyzing retail stores in agricultural areas provides insights into traded and cultivated agrobi...

Chromosome numbers and karyotypes are given for 8 taxa occurring in Greece. Microphotographs and karyotype morphology are provided, and polyploidy in some of them is discussed. Specifically, a polypoid karyotype is recorded in the species Centaurea spruneri s.l. (2n = 10x and 2n = 11x) Muscari spreitzenhoferi (2n = 4x) and Allium neapolitanum (2n =...

Vitis vinifera L. has been present in Ibiza and Formentera, two islands of the Balearic Islands (Spain), since the 7th century BC. In the past few years, there have been several studies and investigations on the Balearic Islands. These have focused mainly on Mallorca and Menorca with a small representation of Ibiza and none that take into account F...

Introduction: Mental disorders are among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide. Despite the disease burden they cause, including significant direct and indirect impacts on individual’s health and major social and economic consequences in all countries of the world, it is still one of the most neglected areas of public health. In...

The study of the interaction of biological tissue with polarized light leads to relevant information of physical properties (dichroism, retardance and depolarization) of samples. Polarimetric analysis of different characteristics in tissues is useful for applications such us tissue classification, contrast enhancement or pathology detection. By mea...

The iconic, palmately compound leaves of Cannabis have attracted significant attention in the past. However, investigations into the genetic basis of leaf shape or its connections to phytochemical composition have yielded inconclusive results. This is partly due to prominent changes in leaflet number between leaves of a single plant during developm...

Anagenetic speciation is an important mode of evolution in oceanic islands, yet relatively understudied compared to adaptive radiation. In the Macaronesian region, three closely related species of Artemisia (i.e. A. argentea, A. thuscula and A. gorgonum) are each endemic from a single archipelago (i.e. Madeira, Canary Islands and Cape Verde, respec...

Festuca is one of the most ecologically and economically important genera of temperate grasses. Species of its type subgenus, Festuca , are common components of cool-seasonal pastures and are especially frequent in mountainous areas, where there are often several morphologically similar species that grow in the same or comparable habitats and somet...

Polarimetric techniques are widely used in a vast number of applications such as remote sensing, material characterization, astronomy and biological tissue inspection. In this last scenario, different polarimetric observables have proved their potential for enhancing imaging visualization. In this work we use a set of polarimetric observables deriv...

Through the arrow decomposition of the Mueller matrix, respective sets of sixteen independent polarimetric images of biological tissues are obtained for enpolarizing, retarding and depolariz-ing descriptors. In addition to the mean intensity coefficient and the three indices of polarimetric purity, the absolute values and Poincaré orientations of d...

Festuca is one of the most ecologically and economically important genera of temperate grasses. Species of its main subgenus Festuca are common components of cool-seasonal pastures and are especially frequent in mountainous areas, where there are often several morphologically similar species that grow in the same or comparable habitats and sometime...

Arctium L. is a genus of Asteraceae composed of 41 species (in the most recent circumscription of López-Vinyallonga et al., 2011) distributed mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, with some invasive representatives in the Southern Hemisphere (López-Vinyallonga et al., 2009). Only two Arctium species are confirmed for the Iberian flora, Arctium lappa L...

Ficha que recoge los conocimientos tradicionales relacionados con la gestión, cultivo, manejo y usos del cáñamo (Cannabis sativa L.) en las diferentes regiones del Estado Español en las que se ha cultivado esta planta de forma tradicional.

Ficha que recoge los conocimientos tradicionales relacionados con la gestión, cultivo, manejo y usos de la azucena (Lilium candidum L.) en las diferentes regiones del Estado Español en las que se ha cultivado esta planta de forma tradicional.

Ficha que recoge los conocimientos tradicionales relacionados con la gestión, cultivo, manejo y usos del haba (Vicia faba L.) en las diferentes regiones del Estado Español en las que se ha cultivado esta planta de forma tradicional.

Cannabis sativa has been used for millennia in traditional medicine for ritual purposes and for the production of food and fibres, thus, providing important and versatile services to humans. The species, which currently has a worldwide distribution, strikes out for displaying a huge morphological and chemical diversity. Differences in Cannabis geno...

This paper highlights the potential of using polarimetric methods for the inspection of plant diseased tissues. We show how depolarizing observables are a suitable tool for the accurate discrimination between healthy and diseased tissues due to the pathogen infection of plant samples. The analysis is conducted on a set of different plant specimens...

Veterinary care is fundamental for animal wellbeing, and so is achieving a comprehensive understanding of traditional ethnoveterinary applications. However, little attention has been paid to it so far in industrialized countries, and in particular in Western Europe. In this context, the present work aims to make a contribution to this issue in the...

Plant genome size has many applications in different biological fields including ecology and plant breeding. The 2C value for Vitis vinifera L. has not been widely studied; furthermore, to date, no data from local landraces in the Pityusic Islands (the two smaller inhabited Balearic Islands, Ibiza, and Formentera) have been reported. This research...

Cancer is the second cause of death in the world and is foreseen to be responsible for about 16 million deaths in 2040. Approximately, 60% of the drugs used to treat cancer are of natural origin. Besides the extensive use of some of these drugs in therapies, such as those derived from the genus Taxus, a significant number of plants have revealed th...

This paper is not authored by me (Sònia Garcia), I just served as an editor, but I can't find how to correct this in ResearchGate.

Infectious diseases represent, as a group, the main cause of mortality in the world. The most important reasons are multidrug-resistant pathogens, the rapid spread of emerging diseases aggravated by globalization, and the extended reach of tropical and vector-borne diseases resulting from continued climate change. Given the increase in these diseas...

Background: Despite the benefits that synthetic pesticides have provided in terms of pest and disease control, they cause serious long-term consequences for both the environment and living organisms. Interest in ecofriendly products has subsequently increased in recent years. Methods: This article briefly analyzes the available ethnobotanical evide...

Presentamos en este trabajo la web ‘Etnobotánica de los Países Catalanes’ (https://etnobotanica.iec.cat), una herramienta interactiva para redescubrir el saber popular sobre las plantas. En el momento de hacerse pública, contiene casi 80.000 entradas con nombres de plantas y 55.000 con usos medicinales, y se trabaja para introducir, en los próximos...

The genus Marshallia is made up by seven to ten species of perennial herbs growing mainly in open habitats, whereas the genus Balduina is represented by three sympatric species; two perennial herbs and one annual, growing in open pine forest habitats. Both genera belong to the family Asteraceae, tribe Helenieae, and are endemic to the southeast Uni...

Based on results from previous studies, populations of the Iberian endemic Centaurea podospermifolia north of the Ebro River are considered genetically pure, while those southward are introgressed, with genetic input from C. cephalariifolia. This phenomenon is particularly relevant, especially given both the endangered and protected status for the...

El tamaño del genoma de 18 especies del género Carduncellus, dos especies de los géneros relacionados, Phonus y el género monotípico Femeniasia (F. balearica) ha sido medido por primera vez mediante citometría de flujo. Los niveles de ploidía se asignaron utilizando datos de tamaño del genoma junto con los recuentos de cromosomas previamente report...

Ethnopharmacological relevance: Cannabis is one of the most versatile genera in terms of plant use and has been exploited by humans for millennia. Nowadays, Cannabis is the centre of many scientific studies, most of them focusing on chemical composition and medicinal values. While new and varied applications are continuously being developed, the kn...

Cannabis is one of the most versatile genera in terms of plant uses and has been exploited by humans for millennia due to its medicinal properties, strong fibres, nutritious seeds and psychoactive resin. Nowadays, Cannabis is the centre of many scientific studies, which mainly focus on its chemical composition and medicinal properties. Unfortunatel...

Optical microscopy techniques for plant inspection benefit from the fact that at least one of the multiple properties of light (intensity, phase, wavelength, polarization) may be modified by vegetal tissues. Paradoxically, polarimetric microscopy although being a mature technique in biophotonics, is not so commonly used in botany. Importantly, only...

Studies suggesting that medicinal plants are not chosen at random are becoming more common. The goal of this work is to shed light on the role of botanical families in ethnobotany, depicting in a molecular phylogenetic frame the relationships between families and medicinal uses of vascular plants in several Catalan-speaking territories. The simple...

Wild food plants (WFP) have always been present in our kitchen, although they have not always been given the same importance as crops. In the Catalan linguistic area (CLA), covered in this paper, WFP were of great importance as a subsistence food not only during the years of the Spanish civil war (1936–1939) and World War II (1939–1945), but also l...

Background Catalonia (in the north east of the Iberian Peninsula) is among the most prospected territories in Europe, from the ethnobotanical point of view. The aim of the present paper is to undertake a global analysis in the area considered, including plants, plant life forms, and ethnobotanical data within a physiographic and geographic framewor...

Asexual reproduction has often been regarded as an evolutionary dead end, but asexual lineages (most notably those that are apomictic) are present in several angiosperm families and often comprise a large number of taxa, both widespread and endemic. Investigating correlations between genetic, environmental and taxonomic factors and the incidence of...

El llibre “Plantes medicinals de Catalunya” és fruit del treball d’investigació que els autors, del grup de recerca en etnobotànica de la Universitat de Barcelona i l’Institut Botànic de Barcelona (www.etnobiofic.cat), estan duent a terme des de fa temps als territoris de llengua catalana. S’hi transmet només allò que s’ha recollit de primera mà,...

Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) is a medicinal plant traditionally employed for the treatment of urinary tract infections due to high contents of arbutin (hydroquinone �-D-glucoside), which is now mainly used as a natural skin-whitening agent in cosmetics. Bearberry has also been proposed as a natural antioxidant additive due to the high conten...

Artemisia herba-alba is an important component of Mediterranean dry steppe floras, being widely distributed in arid areas of the Iberian Peninsula and North-West Africa. In this study, we use genetic, cytogenetic and niche modelling tools to investigate the natural history of the species, focusing particularly on the role played by polyploidization...

Asexual reproduction has often been regarded as an evolutionary dead end, but asexual lineages (most notably those that are apomictic) are present in several angiosperm families and often comprise a large number of taxa, both widespread and endemic. Investigating correlations between genetic, environmental and taxonomic factors and the incidence of...

The genome size database of the Balkan flora is prepared using HTML/CSS/React client and PHP Laravel server technologies. It is available on-line (http://www.pmf.unsa.ba/gesdabaf) and will be regularly updated. To date, 52 works, apart from the contribution of the present paper, have been taken into account to build the database. At September 2019,...

The genome size database of the Balkan flora is prepared using HTML/CSS/React client and PHP Laravel server technologies. It is available on-line (http://www.pmf.unsa.ba/gesdabaf) and will be regularly updated. To date, 52 works, apart from the contribution of the present paper, have been taken into account to build the database. At September 2019,...

Artemisia herba-alba is an important component of Mediterranean dry steppe floras, being widely distributed in arid areas of the Iberian Peninsula and NorthWest Africa. In this study, we use genetic, cytogenetic and niche modelling tools to investigate the natural history of the species, focusing particularly on the role played by polyploidization...

Background: This study has focused on the Garrigues district, one of the most arid regions in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula), which, in general terms, has remained unexplored from the ethnobotanical point of view. This area, of 22,243 inhabitants, comprises 33 municipalities distributed across 1123.12 km2. The natural vegetation is dominated by...

The Balkan Peninsula is one of the 250 centres for plant diversity identified in the World, and one of the major biodiversity hotspot plant areas in Europe. Balkan flora has been well studied at the morphological, phytogeographical and taxonomic levels, but a scarce attention had been paid to genome size. This work consists of two distinct parts. T...

In this work, we investigated the chromosome number and genome size of two Mediterranean Amaranthaceae species, namely Atriplex mollis from southern Tunisia and A. lanfrancoi (formerly Cremnophyton lanfrancoi) from Malta. The two species were found to be diploid (2n = 18) for all examined populations. This result is different from that previously r...

Background and aims: Changes in the amount of repetitive DNA (dispersed and tandem repeats) are considered the main contributors to genome size variation across plant species in the absence of polyploidy. However, the study of repeatome dynamism in groups showing contrasting genomic features and complex evolutionary histories is needed to find out...

Introgression is a poorly understood evolutionary outcome of hybridisation because it may remain largely undetected whenever it involves the transfer of small parts of the genome from one species to another. Aiming to understand the early stages of this process, a putative case from the southernmost border of the Armeria pungens range from its cong...

The Atlantic-Mediterranean marine transition is a fascinating biogeographic region, but still very poorly studied from the point of view of seaweed phylogeography. Dictyota fasciola and D. mediterranea (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) are two currently recognized sister species that share a large part of their distribution along the Mediterranean Sea an...

Background The western Gironès is a district located in NE Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula). This area comprising 186.55 km² and 10,659 inhabitants is composed of 5 municipalities encompassing 29 villages, located in the hydrographic basins of the Ter and Llémena rivers. Methods Following the methodology based on the semi-structured interviews, we...

Optical methods, as fluorescence microscopy or hyperspectral imaging, are commonly used for plants visualization and characterization. Another powerful collection of optical techniques is the so-called polarimetry, widely used to enhance image contrast in multiple applications. In the botanical applications framework, in spite of some works have al...

Video consist of 200 frames where each frame shows the DoP image of Hedera maroccana leaf calculated for a different input polarization. (AVI)

Atriplex mollis Desf. (Amaranthaceae), a North African endemic halophytic species, is further described in this study. Phylogenetic analysis based on a combined dataset of ITS and ETS rDNA and atpB-rbcL and trnK cpDNA showed that A. mollis is closely related to the Malta- and Gozo-endemic Cremnophyton lanfrancoi Brullo & Pavone. Given this close ph...

The existence of two chromosome numbers (2n = 16 and 2n = 40) in Lygeum spartum is confirmed in the Algerian steppe populations of Oran region. Chromosome counts were established for 11 Algerian populations and three supplementary populations from Italy, Spain and Greece. The karyotypes were characterized by chromosome markers obtained using fluore...

The Genome Size in Asteraceae Database (GSAD, http://www.asteraceaegenomesize.com) has been recently updated, with data from papers published or in press until July 2018. This constitutes the third release of GSAD, currently containing 4350 data entries for 1496 species, which represent a growth of 22.52% in the number of species with available gen...

Ficha que recoge los conocimientos tradicionales relacionados con la gestión, cultivo, manejo y usos del trigo sarraceno (Fagopyrum esculentum) en las diferentes regiones del Estado Español en las que se ha cultivado esta planta de forma tradicional.

Ficha que recoge los conocimientos tradicionales relacionados con la gestión, cultivo, manejo y usos de la alcachofa (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) en las diferentes regiones del Estado Español en las que se ha cultivado esta planta de forma tradicional.

Ficha que recoge los conocimientos tradicionales relacionados con la gestión, cultivo, manejo y usos del lino (Linum usitatissimum) en las diferentes regiones del Estado Español en las que se ha cultivado esta planta de forma tradicional.

Ficha que recoge los conocimientos tradicionales relacionados con la gestión, cultivo, manejo y usos del guisante (Pisum sativum) en las diferentes regiones del Estado Español en las que se ha cultivado esta planta de forma tradicional.

Ficha que recoge los conocimientos tradicionales relacionados con la gestión, cultivo, manejo y usos del castaño (Castanea sativa) en las diferentes regiones del Estado Español en las que se ha cultivado esta planta de forma tradicional.

Ficha que recoge los conocimientos tradicionales relacionados con la gestión, cultivo, manejo y usos de la zanahoria (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) en las diferentes regiones del Estado Español en las que se ha cultivado esta planta de forma tradicional.

Ficha que recoge los conocimientos tradicionales relacionados con la gestión, cultivo, manejo y usos de la oliva arbequina (Olea europaea var. europea) en las diferentes regiones en las que se ha cultivado esta variedad de forma tradicional.

The study of genome size variation can contribute valuable information on species relationships as well as correlate to several morphological or ecological features, among others. Here we provide an extensive report on genome sizes on genus Tripleurospermum and its closely related genus Matricaria, which are two typically Mediterranean genera parti...

DNA sequence matrix of ITS+ETS rDNA regions for the studied species. (FAS)

Data used for the statistical analyses together with source references. (DOCX)

Resum L’etnobotànica és una disciplina situada en la interfície entre les ciències naturals i les ciències humanes que s’ocupa de les relacions entre les persones i les plantes al llarg del temps i la seva projecció en l’avenir. Als Països Catalans, dues tesis doctorals dels anys 1990 (una de les quals, de tema pirinenc) van ser pioneres i des de l...

Using DNA barcoding markers, we inferred the phylogenetic relationships of the genus Anacyclus including for the first time the three Eastern Mediterranean species, A. anatolicus, A. latealatus and A. nigellifolius. Our results conclusively reveal the polyphyletic condition of this genus in its current circumscription. The molecular data show that...

Ethnopharmacological relevance: The discovery of the antimalarial agent artemisinin is considered one of the most significant success stories of ethnopharmacological research in recent times. The isolation of artemisinin was inspired by the use of Artemisia annua in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2015. Antimala...

Conjunto de saberes, valores, creencias y prácticas concebidos a partir de la experiencia de adaptación al entorno local a lo largo del tiempo, compartidos y valorados por una comunidad y transmitidos de generación en generación para las siguientes 14 especies de la etnoflora ibérica: Saponaria officinalis L. (Vol. 1: 149-151), Ribes uva-crispa L....

Conjunto de saberes, valores, creencias y prácticas concebidos a partir de la experiencia de adaptación al entorno local a lo largo del tiempo, compartidos y valorados por una comunidad y transmitidos de generación en generación para las siguientes 2 especies de la etnoflora ibérica: Tilia platyphyllos Scop. y Tilia cordata Mill. (Vol. 3: 360-365)....

Conjunto de saberes, valores, creencias y prácticas concebidos a partir de la experiencia de adaptación al entorno local a lo largo del tiempo, compartidos y valorados por una comunidad y transmitidos de generación en generación para las siguientes 3 especies de la etnoflora ibérica: Achillea pyrenaica Sibth. ex Godr. (Vol. 1: 172-173), Artemisia a...

Conjunto de saberes, valores, creencias y prácticas concebidos a partir de la experiencia de adaptación al entorno local a lo largo del tiempo, compartidos y valorados por una comunidad y transmitidos de generación en generación para las siguientes 5 especies de la etnoflora ibérica: Lilium martagon L. y Lilium pyrenaicum Gouan. (Vol. 1: 348-351),...

Conjunto de saberes, valores, creencias y prácticas concebidos a partir de la experiencia de adaptación al entorno local a lo largo del tiempo, compartidos y valorados por una comunidad y transmitidos de generación en generación para las siguientes 2 especies de la etnoflora ibérica: Artemisia campestris L. (Vol. 2: 80-83) y Solanum villosum Mill....