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Full name: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas de Valencia. CSIC-IBMCP
Location: Valencia, Spain
About Us
The CSIC is the largest public research body in Spain. With centres throughout Spain, we play an active role in the scientific policy of all the country's autonomous regions. As a multidisciplinary body we cover all fields of knowledge, from basic research through to advanced technological development. The CSIC is subdivided into eight science and technology areas: (Humanities and Social Sciences, Biology and Biomedicine, Natural Resources, Agricultural Sciences, Physical Sciences and Technologies, Chemical Sciences and Technologies, Materials Science and Technology and Food Science and Technology).
Research at the IBMCP is focused on the Biology of Plants, Biotechnology and Plant Breeding of Crops with an emphasis on Horticultural crops. Scientists in our institute use both model systems and crop plants in combination with genetics and genomics tools to identify genes important for agronomic traits and for the response of plants environmental conditions.
CSIC and Eu-Sol
Our contribution to EUSOL is in two workpackages (WP1.2 and WP4.5). In the first one we aim at identifying genes that acting early in fruit set/ development affect the final quality of the fruit. Hormonal pathways and early stages of fruit development are the target of our approach. In the second workpackage we are contributing to the sequencing of the tomato genome. As with other members of this WP our work is to complement our National program of sequencing, in our case the tomato chromosome 9. Deciphering the DNA sequence of the gene rich regions in tomato is considered a cornerstone for Solanaceae research as this will to speed up our ability to identify important genes and use this knowledge to increase tomato quality for consumers, producers and processors.
Staff (working on EU-SOL)
- Antonio Granell
- Jose Luis García-Martinez
- Juan Carbonell
- Diego Orzaez
