Vicent Arbona

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• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Jaume I University

Drought is a problematic abiotic stress affecting citrus crops in the Mediterranean basin and the rootstock plays a fundamental role in adopting adaptive mechanisms in response to water deficit. The aim of this study is to evaluate the response of eight rootstocks under three treatments imposed: control (100% of reference evapotranspiration, Et0),...

Grapevine is an economically important crop, affected by major production losses due to high virus prevalence. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can reduce the impact of plant biotic stresses. However, hormonal response to the simultaneous presence of viruses and AMF remains largely unknown. In this study, we explored the potential of AMF to modif...

Drought is a problematic abiotic stress affecting citrus crops in the Mediterranean basin and the rootstock plays a fundamental role in adopting adaptive mechanisms in response to water deficit. The aim of this study is to evaluate the response of eight rootstocks under three treatments imposed: control (100% Et0), 66% Et0 and 50% Et0. Among the ro...

The threats posed by climate change on agriculture at a global scale have fostered researchers to explore new and efficient strategies to ensure stable and safe food production. These new strategies must not only be efficient in reducing yield loss but also comply with environmental and consumer safety regulations, which particularly refer to restr...

Priming modulates plant stress responses before the stress appears, increasing the ability of the primed plant to endure adverse conditions and thrive. In this context, we investigated the effect of biological (i.e., arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, AMF) agents and natural compounds (i.e., salicylic acid applied alone or combined with chitosan) agains...

An increasing amount of land is becoming unsuitable for citrus cultivation, mainly due to water scarcity. This study evaluated the physiological and biochemical performance of trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata) and rough lemon (Citrus jambhiri) seedlings subjected to water deficit for 12 days. Under these conditions, trifoliate orange was more...

Potassium (K+) is vital for optimum plant growth and crop yield, and it is an important component of fertilizers. However, our knowledge of the physiological and molecular response to limiting K+ conditions is incomplete. Despite their close phylogenetic relationship, we observed that broccoli is more tolerant to limiting K+ conditions than Arabido...

Salinization poses a significant challenge in agriculture, exacerbated by anthropogenic global warming. Biostimulants, derived from living microorganisms or natural extracts, have emerged as valuable tools for conventional and organic agriculture. However, our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of biostimulants is very...

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...

Background and aims The use of root-associated microorganisms emerge as a sustainable tool to enhance crop tolerance and productivity under climate change, particularly in drought-affected areas. Here, the impact of an inoculum based on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) was evaluated on pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) cultivation at varying water irri...

Disease severity and drought due to climate change present significant challenges to orchard productivity. This study examines the effects of spring inoculation with Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (Pss) on sweet cherry plants, cvs. Bing and Santina with varying defense responses, assessing plant growth, physiological variables (water potential,...

Most of the plants belonging to the family of Brassicaceae are non-hosts for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). These plants are known to produce glucosinolates (GSL), a group of allelopathic compounds, with a role in plant defense. The overexpression of the Thkel1 from Trichoderma harzianum in rapeseed (BnKel) plants, this gene encoding a protein...

Arthropod herbivory poses a serious threat to crop yield, prompting plants to employ intricate defense mechanisms against pest feeding. The generalist pest two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) inflicts rapid damage and remains challenging due to its broad target range. In this study, we explored the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) respo...

Plants produce a myriad of specialized compounds in response to threats such as pathogens or pests and different abiotic factors. The stress-related induction of specialized metabolites can be mimicked using silver nitrate (AgNO3) as an elicitor, which application in conservation agriculture has gained interest. In Arabidopsis thaliana, AgNO3 trigg...

Crops often have to face several abiotic stresses simultaneously, and under these conditions, the plant's response significantly differs from that observed under a single stress. However, up to the present, most of the molecular markers identified for increasing plant stress tolerance have been characterized under single abiotic stresses, which exp...

Arthropod herbivory possess a significant threat to crop yield, prompting plants to employ intricate defense mechanisms against pest feeding. The generalist pest, Tetranychus urticae , inflicts rapid damage and remains a challenge due to its broad target range. In this study, we explored Arabidopsis thaliana’s response to T. urticae infestation, re...

The interaction between plants and phytophagous arthropods encompasses a complex network of molecules, signals, and pathways to overcome defences generated by each interacting organism. Although most of the elements and modulators involved in this interplay are still unidentified, plant redox homeostasis and signalling are essential for the establi...

Composite generalist herbivores are comprised of host-adapted populations that retain the ability to shift hosts. The degree and overlap of mechanisms used by host-adapted generalist and specialist herbivores to overcome the same host plant defences are largely unknown. Tetranychidae mites are exceptionally suited to address the relationship betwee...

Crops often have to face several abiotic stresses simultaneously, and under these conditions, the plant’s response significantly differs from that observed under a single stress. Nevertheless, most of the molecular markers identified for increasing plant stress tolerance have been characterized under single abiotic stresses, explaining their unexpe...

Garlic is cultivated worldwide for the value of its bulbs, but its cultivation is challenged by the infertility of commercial cultivars and the accumulation of pathogens over time, which occurs as a consequence of vegetative (clonal) propagation. In this review, we summarize the state of the art of garlic genetics and genomics, highlighting recent...

The selection of plant genotypes with improved productivity and tolerance to environmental constraints has always been a major concern in plant breeding. Classical approaches based on the generation of variability and selection of better phenotypes from large variant collections have improved their efficacy and processivity due to the implementatio...

Cadmium (Cd) pollution of agricultural soils is a growing global concern. Plant growth restriction is the main visible symptom of Cd toxicity, and this metal may be particularly harmful to the preformed, seminal root during the pre-emergence stage. In the present study, we focused on Cd phytotoxicity in seminal root growth, nutrient composition, re...

Mediterranean basin and other citrus-growing areas, such as Florida or California, are among the most vulnerable regions to the impacts of global warming. Therefore, citrus will be likely subjected to increasing periods of water scarcity combined with high temperatures that will impair plant growth, development and yield. In citrus industry, grafti...

During the last years, a great effort has been dedicated at the development and employment of diverse approaches for achieving more stress-tolerant and climate-flexible crops and sustainable yield increases to meet the food and energy demands of the future. The ongoing climate change is in fact leading to more frequent extreme events with a negativ...

DORMANCY-ASSOCIATED MADS-BOX ( DAM ) genes have recently emerged as key potential regulators of the dormancy cycle and climate adaptation in perennial species. Particularly, PpeDAM6 has been proposed to act as a major repressor of bud dormancy release and bud break in peach ( Prunus persica ). PpeDAM6 expression is downregulated concomitantly with...

Water-deficit stress is the most important abiotic stress restricting plant growth, development and yield. The effects of this stress, however, depend on genotypes, among other factors. This study assembles morpho-physiological and metabolic approaches to assess hormonal and metabolic profile changes, upon water-deficit stress, in the shoot and roo...

Modern agricultural policies across the globe are committed to a significant reduction in chemical pesticide dependency; however, pest management strategies are still based on the use of synthetic pesticides. There is an urgent need to find new, sustainable and biorational tools for pest management programs. Plants communicate with each other and a...

Genetic adaptation, occurring over a long evolutionary time, enables host-specialized herbivores to develop novel resistance traits and to efficiently counteract the defenses of a narrow range of host plants. In contrast, physiological acclimation, leading to the suppression and/or detoxification of host defenses, is hypothesized to enable broad-ge...

Current citriculture is threatened by climate change. The increase in temperature, together with other adverse climate phenomena, modifies the environmental conditions in the regions where current citrus varieties developed. The detrimental effects of these adverse environmental factors on citrus physiology and production, such as drought or soil s...

Plant survival depends on the optimal use of resources under variable environmental conditions. Among the mechanisms that mediate the balance between growth, differentiation, and stress responses, the regulation of transcriptional activity by DELLA proteins stands out. In angiosperms, DELLA accumulation promotes defense against biotic and abiotic s...

Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) defenses against herbivores are regulated by the jasmonate (JA) hormonal signaling pathway, which leads to the production of a plethora of defense compounds. Arabidopsis defense compounds include tryptophan-derived metabolites, which limit Arabidopsis infestation by the generalist herbivore two-spotted spider mite...

Pine wilt disease (PWD), caused by the plant–parasitic nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, has become a severe environmental problem in the Iberian Peninsula with devastating effects in Pinus pinaster forests. Despite the high levels of this species' susceptibility, previous studies reported heritable resistance in P. pinaster trees. Understanding...

Cadmium (Cd) pollution of agricultural soils is a growing global problem. Plant growth restriction is the main visible symptom of Cd toxicity, and this metal may be particularly harmful to the preformed, seminal root during the pre-emergence stage. In the present study, we focused on Cd phytotoxicity on seminal root growth, nutrient composition, re...

Different environmental and developmental cues involve low oxygen conditions, particularly those associated to abiotic stress conditions. It is widely accepted that plant responses to low oxygen conditions are mainly regulated by ethylene (ET). However, interaction with other hormonal signaling pathways as gibberellins (GAs), auxin (IAA), or nitric...

Soil flooding is a compound abiotic stress that alters soil properties and limits atmospheric gas diffusion (O2 and CO2) to the roots. The involvement of abscisic acid (ABA) in the regulation of soil flooding-specific genetic and metabolic responses has been scarcely studied despite its key importance as regulator in other abiotic stress conditions...

Plant survival depends on the optimal use of resources under variable environmental conditions. Among the mechanisms that mediate the balance between growth, differentiation, and stress responses, the regulation of transcriptional activity by DELLA proteins stands out. In angiosperms, DELLA accumulation promotes defense against biotic and abiotic s...

Drought is one of the most important constraints to crop productivity worldwide. Control of plant responses to drought is very complex. The mechanisms and their intensity may differ between species and/or genotypes ultimately conditioning tolerance or susceptibility. We explore here the strategy set up by two oat cultivars to cope with drought base...

Amblyseius swirskii is a predatory mite widely used for the control of very important pest species, such as whiteflies and thrips, in organic farming and conventional agriculture. However, this species cannot establish on tomato crops, probably due to the toxic effects of plant trichomes and their exudates. We evaluated tomato plants for effects on...

Cadmium is one of the most important contaminants and it induces severe plant growth restriction. In this study, we analyzed the metabolic changes associated with root growth restriction caused by cadmium in the early seminal root apex of wheat. Our study included two genotypes: the commercial variety ProINTA Federal (WT) and the PSARK::IPT (IPT) l...

Interaction between plants and their environment is changing as a consequence of the climate change and global warming, increasing the performance and dispersal of some pest species which become invasive species. Tetranychus evansi also known as the tomato red spider mite, is an invasive species which has been reported to increase its performance w...

Copper (Cu) interferes with numerous biological functions in plants, including plant growth, which is partly governed by plant hormones. In the present study, Cu stress effect on the roots of pre-emerging maize seedlings in terms of growth, nutrient composition, protein modifications, and root hormone homeostasis was investigated, focusing on possi...

Genetic adaptation, occurring over long evolutionary time, enables host-specialized herbivores to develop novel resistance traits and to counteract the defenses of a narrow range of host plants. In contrast, physiological acclimation, leading to the suppression and/or detoxification of host defenses is hypothesized to enable generalists to shift be...

Plant viral infections alter gene expression and metabolism in infected host. To study the molecular responses of Mexican lime to CTV infection, an analysis of plant metabolome in response to infection with severe (T318) or mild (T385) isolates of CTV was performed. Healthy plants and those infected with any of the two virus strains showed differen...

The Mediterranean basin is especially sensitive to the adverse outcomes of climate change and especially to variations in rainfall patterns and the incidence of extremely high temperatures. These two concurring adverse environmental conditions will surely have a detrimental effect on crop performance and productivity that will be particularly sever...

Flavor traits in citrus are the result of a blend of low molecular weight metabolites including sugars, acids, flavonoids and limonoids, these latter being mainly responsible for the characteristic bitter flavor in citrus. In this work, the genotype- and developmental stage-dependent accumulation of flavonoids and limonoids is addressed. To fulfill...

To survive under water deprivation, plants alter gene expression patterns, make structural and physiological adjustments and optimize the efficient use of water. Protein turn-over is required for a rapid degradation of proteins and an effective nutrient recycling. In barley, the transcriptional responses of the C1A cysteine protease family to droug...

Climate change is expected to increase drought periods and the performance and dispersal of some invasive species such as Tetranychus evansi, which has been reported to take advantage of the nutritional changes induced by water-shortage on the tomato cultivar Moneymaker (MM). We have examined the implications for mite’s biology of four accessions o...

Although often investigated within the context of plant growth and development and/or seed composition, plant lipids have roles in responses to environment. To dissect changes in lipid and fatty acid composition linked to drought tolerance responses in oats, we performed a detailed profiling of (>90) different lipids classes during a time course of...

The presence of antibiotics in soils could be due to natural production by soil microorganisms or to the effect of anthropogenic activities. However, the impact of these compounds on plant physiology has not been thoroughly investigated. To evaluate the effect of beta-lactam antibiotics (carbenicillin and penicillin) on the growth and development o...

Citrus, one of the most valuable fruit crops around the world, are severely damaged by biotic stress and huge economical losses are caused by pathogen infections. Non-host response is an essential plant defense mechanism against pathogen attack, however is still not completely characterized and is poorly studied in non-model plants. In previous rep...

To determine whether drought-induced root jasmonates (JA, jasmonic acid and JA-Ile, jasmonic acid iso-leucine) accumulation affected shoot responses to drying soil, near isogenic wild type (WT) tomato (Solanum lycopersicum cv. Castlemart) and the def-1 mutant (which fails to accumulate jasmonates during water deficit) were self- and reciprocally-gr...

Plants respond to environmental challenges inducing several physiological, metabolic, and molecular responses. These responses are oriented to avoid or endure the adverse environmental condition in non-adapted plant genotypes. Under abiotic stress conditions, plants trigger mechanisms to minimize water loss through stomata; this affects photosynthe...

Jasmonic acid (JA) and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbioses are known to protect plants against abiotic and biotic stresses, but are also involved in the regulation of root hydraulic conductance (L). The objective of this experiment was to elucidate the role of JA in the water relations and hormonal regulation of AM plants under drought by using t...

Plants grown in natural environment are regularly subjected to different combinations of abiotic stresses. Recent studies revealed that citrus plants subjected to a combination of severe drought and high temperatures displayed specific physiological, hormonal, molecular and metabolic responses. In the present study, we have performed a long-term ex...

Drought and high temperatures are two major abiotic stress factors that often occur simultaneously in nature, affecting negatively crop performance and yield. Moreover, these environmental challenges induce oxidative stress in plants through the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Carrizo citrange and Cleopatra mandarin are two citrus geno...

The root system is the main organ involved in the water uptake and it is assumed that it perceives soil dehydration, triggering water stress responses at the entire plant level, including abscisic acid (ABA) accumulation. However, several lines of evidence demonstrate that leaves directly adjust their water status (and induce increases in ABA level...

Soil flooding reduces root abscisic acid (ABA) levels in citrus, conversely to what happens under drought. Despite this reduction, microarray analyses suggested the existence of a residual ABA signaling in roots of flooded Carrizo citrange seedlings. The comparison of ABA metabolism and signaling in roots of flooded and water stressed plants of Car...

[This corrects the article on p. 126 in vol. 8, PMID: 28228766.].

Abscission is a cell separation process by which plants can shed organs such as fruits, leaves, or flowers. The process takes place in specific locations termed abscission zones. In fruit crops like citrus, fruit abscission represents a high percentage of annual yield losses. Thus, understanding the molecular regulation of abscission is of capital...

Functional categories related to polysaccharide metabolism and subcellular localization regulated in the AZ-C and the FR.

Phylogenetic relationships between Glycoside hydrolases.

Phylogenetic relationships between Pectate lyases.

Specific primers used for sqRT-PCR.

Genes regulated by ethylene exclusively in AZ-C or FR cells, and in both AZ-C and FR cells.

sqRT-PCR-based relative expression in the AZ-C and the FR.

LM isolation of AZ-C and FR cells.

Phylogenetic relationships between Expansins.

Identification of citrus genes belonging to different families of cell wall remodeling enzymes, and monolignol biosynthesis and polymerization.

Phylogenetic relationships between members of gene families associated with monolignol biosynthesis and polymerization.

Phylogenetic relationships between Carbohydrate esterases.

Drought and heat stresses are two of the most frequent environmental factors that take place simultaneously in the field constraining global crop productivity. Metabolism reconfiguration is often behind the adaptation of plants to adverse environmental conditions. Carrizo citrange and Cleopatra mandarin, two citrus genotypes with contrasting abilit...