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Newsletter May 2024

Pollinator-assisted plant natural selection and breeding under climate change pressure

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Newsletter July 2023

Project official launch and kick-off meeting held in Murcia

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Publications from the project

• Ormazabal, M.; Prudencio, Á.S.; Martínez-Melgarejo, P.A.; Martín-Rodríguez, J.Á.; Ruiz-Pérez, L.; Martínez-Andújar, C.; Jiménez, A.R.; Pérez-Alfocea, F. Rootstock Effects on Tomato Fruit Composition and Pollinator Preferences in Tomato. Horticulturae 2024, 10, 992. https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/9/992

• Pérez-Alfocea F, Borghi M, Guerrero JJ, Jiménez AR, Jiménez-Gómez JM, Fernie AR, Bartomeus I. Pollinator-assisted plant phenotyping, selection, and breeding for crop resilience to abiotic stresses. Plant J. 2024 Apr 6. doi: 10.1111/tpj.16748. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38581375. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.16748

• Martínez-Andújar, C., Youssef, R.B., Prudencio, Á.S. et al. Bumblebees sense rootstock-mediated nutrition and fertilization regime in tomato. Plant Soil (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-05868-0. SharedIt link


Publications related to the project

• Albacete, A. A., Martínez-Andújar, C., & Pérez-Alfocea, F. (2014). Hormonal and metabolic regulation of source–sink relations under salinity and drought: From plant survival to crop yield stability. Biotechnology Advances, 32(1), 12-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2013.10.005

• Bailes, E. J., Pattrick, J. G., & Glover, B. J. (2018). An analysis of the energetic reward offered by field bean (Vicia faba) flowers: Nectar, pollen, and operative force. Ecology and Evolution, 8(6), 3161-3171. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3851

• Barlow, S. E., O’Neill, M. A., & Pavlik, B. M. (2019). A prototype RFID tag for detecting bumblebee visitations within fragmented landscapes. Journal of Biological Engineering, 13(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13036-019-0143-x

• Borghi, M., Perez de Souza, L., Yoshida, T., & Fernie, A. R. (2019). Flowers and climate change: A metabolic perspective. New Phytologist, 224(4), 1425-1441. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16031

• Chawade, A., van Ham, J., Blomquist, H., Bagge, O., Alexandersson, E., & Ortiz, R. (2019). High-Throughput Field-Phenotyping Tools for Plant Breeding and Precision Agriculture. Agronomy, 9(5), Art. 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy9050258

• Curtin, S., Qi, Y., Peres, L. E. P., Fernie, A. R., & Zsögön, A. (2022). Pathways to de novo domestication of crop wild relatives. Plant Physiology, 188(4), 1746-1756. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiab554

• De Souza, P., Marendy, P., Barbosa, K., Budi, S., Hirsch, P., Nikolic, N., Gunthorpe, T., Pessin, G., & Davie, A. (2018). Low-Cost Electronic Tagging System for Bee Monitoring. Sensors, 18(7), Art. 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18072124

• Fernie, A. R., Bachem, C. W. B., Helariutta, Y., Neuhaus, H. E., Prat, S., Ruan, Y.-L., Stitt, M., Sweetlove, L. J., Tegeder, M., Wahl, V., Sonnewald, S., & Sonnewald, U. (2020). Synchronization of developmental, molecular and metabolic aspects of source–sink interactions. Nature Plants, 6(2), Art. 2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0590-x

• Gallagher, M. K., & Campbell, D. R. (2017). Shifts in water availability mediate plant–pollinator interactions. New Phytologist, 215(2), 792-802. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14602

• Gervasi, D. D. L., &Schiestl, F. P. (2017). Real-time divergent evolution in plants driven by pollinators. Nature Communications, 8(1), Art. 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14691

• Han, R., Truco, M. J., Lavelle, D. O., & Michelmore, R. W. (2021). A Composite Analysis of Flowering Time Regulation in Lettuce. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.632708

• Karunakaran, R., Yermiyahu, U., Dag, A., & Sperling, O. (2021). Phosphorus fertilization induces nectar secretion for honeybee visitation and cross-pollination of almond trees. Journal of Experimental Botany, 72(8), 3307-3319. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab060

• McCabe, M. F., & Tester, M. (2021). Digital insights: Bridging the phenotype-to-genotype divide. Journal of Experimental Botany, 72(8), 2807-2810. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab108

• Mochida, K., Lipka, A. E., &Hirayama, T. (2020). Exploration of Life-Course Factors Influencing Phenotypic Outcomes in Crops. Plant and Cell Physiology, 61(8), 1381-1383. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaa087

• Pashalidou, F. G., Lambert, H., Peybernes, T., Mescher, M. C., & De Moraes, C. M. (2020). Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce. Science, 368(6493), 881-884. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay0496

• Pieruschka, R., & Schurr, U. (2019). Plant Phenotyping: Past, Present, and Future. Plant Phenomics, 2019. https://doi.org/10.34133/2019/7507131

• Stratonovitch, P., &Semenov, M. A. (2015). Heat tolerance around flowering in wheat identified as a key trait for increased yield potential in Europe under climate change. Journal of Experimental Botany, 66(12), 3599-3609. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erv070

• Zhang, C., Craine, W. A., McGee, R. J., Vandemark, G. J., Davis, J. B., Brown, J., Hulbert, S. H., & Sankaran, S. (2020). Image-Based Phenotyping of Flowering Intensity in Cool-Season Crops. Sensors, 20(5), Art. 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20051450