- Use of biotechnological tools for plant meiosis studies to promote interespecific recombination in cereals.
- Chromosome manipulation in cereals by using chromosome pairing mutants (the ph1 mutants) to facilitate the introgression in crops (mainly in wheat) of desirable agronomic traits from related wild species.
- Genome organisation and nuclear architecture in plants.
- Characterisation of proteins involved in rice meiosis, and specially those implicated in chromosome associations.
- Study of the colonisation processes of beneficial microorganisms in plant roots (cereals and olive).