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Anna
Febrero Ribas
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| Name: |
Anna Febrero Ribas |
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Biology 1994 |
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| Telephone: |
+34 93 403 72 43 |
| Research: |
Plant Ecophysiology, phytoremediation
of heavy metals |
Research interests:
Development of new selection criteria for fast and reliable characterization
of the traits actually determining yield is studied for implementation
of cereal breeding programs. Ecophysiology of cultivated cereals
in the Mediterranean area, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and
the study of water use efficiency of wheat and barley crops is also
consider. Management of natural resources and landscape is the research
scope in Mediterranean area. Together with Prof. Jose Luis Araus,
Dr Jordi Bort and PhD students Cristina Caldelas and Santiago de
la Iglesia, we are conducting the research on the use of natural
resources, plants, for the removal of metals from contaminated waters
and soils. The accumulation and tolerance of plants to metals is
being assessed. The biochemical mechanisms of tolerance and accumulation
of metals in plants and its possible manipulation are being characterised.
Management techniques to improve the performance of plants for metal
uptake are being explored. Identification of natural products conferring
tolerance to metal stress is being studied.
Current research projects:
Advanced technologies for the treatment of industrial and coastal
waters of the mediterranean region (MEDINDUS) European Comission
(inco-ct-2004-509159) Corresponsable científica.
A cheap easy-to-handle desalination approach for crop irrigation
under mediterranean conditions (IRRISEASOIL) European Comission
(inco-ct-2004-509153)
Development of viable technologies and monitoring systems for
the remediation/detection of mercury in south american waters. Design
of chelators with therapeutical properties. (MERCURY) European Comission
(ica4-ct-2002-10055)
| Recent publications:
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| IGLESIA, FEBRERO*, JAUREGUI, CALDELAS, ARAUS, BORT 2006 “Detection
and Quantification of Unbound Phytochelatin 2 in Plant Extracts
of Brassica napus Grown with Different Levels of Mercury
”. Plant Physiology , Vol. 142, pp. 742–749. |
| ARAUS, J.L., A. FEBRERO, M. CATALA., M. MOLIST, J. VOLTAS,
I. ROMAGOSA. 1999. "Crop Water Availability in early agriculture:
evidences from carbon isotope discrimination of seeds from a
tenth millennium BP site on the Euphrates" Global Change
Biology 5, (201-212). |
| FEBRERO, A. FERNANDEZ, S. MOLINA-CANO, J.L. & ARAUS, J.L.
1998. Yied, carbon isotope discrimination, canopy reflectance
and epidermal conductance of barley isolines of differing glaucousness.
Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 49, Nº. 326,
1575-1581. |
| ARAUS, J.L., A. FEBRERO, R. BUXO, M.D. CANALICH, D. MARTIN,
F. MOLINA, M.O. RODRIGUEZ-ARIZA, I. ROMAGOSA. 1997. Changes
in carbon isotope discrimination in grain cereals from different
regions of the western Mediterranean Basin during the past seven
millennia. Palaeoenvironmental evidence of a differential change
in aridity during the late Holocene. Global Change Biology,
3, 107-118. |
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