The REPROD team focuses on understanding the mechanisms responsible for plant reproduction and, in some cases, their alterations in response to environmental changes.
Plant models include Arabidopsis, cereals such as rice and maize, and apomictic Paspalum. We combine modern technologies such as nucleic acid sequencing, biomolecule delivery and live tissue imaging to understand developmental transitions, cellular identities, meiosis and reproductive isolation.
In addition to its academic interest, our work is aimed at acquiring new knowledge with potential for use in plant biotechnological innovations, in areas such as asexual reproduction, haploidization, manipulation of recombination events and novel epiallelic variation.
