• 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).