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Dept. of Vegetal Biology
Faculty of Biology

Av. Diagonal, 645
08028 Barcelona
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Leonor Alegre Batlle

Leonor Alegre Batlle
 
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Name: Leonor Alegre Batlle
  Full Professor of Plant Biology
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Telephone: +34 93 402 14 80
Research:

Water stress, Oxidative stress, hydrogen peroxide, antioxidants, plant hormones, ro-GFP




Research interests:
Regulation of plant responses to drought and oxidative stress. Mechanisms of plant resistance to water stress and their regulation by cellular redox state and plant hormones.

Current research projects:
" Relationship between water stress-oxidative stress in two contrasted plants: Cistus albidus and Arabidopsis thaliana". MCEI project. Head of the project.

"Plant physiology in relation to environment" SGR

Recent publications:
Munné-Bosch S., Alegre L. (2004) Die and let live: leaf senescence contributes to plant survival under drought stress. Functional Plant Biology 31, 203-216.
Hernández I., Alegre L., Munné-Bosch S. 2004. Drought-induced changes in flavonoids and other low-molecular-weight antioxidants in Cistus clusii grown under Mediterranean field conditions. Three Physiology 42, 1303-1311.
Hernández I., Alegre L., Munné-Bosch S. 2006. Enhanced oxidation of flavan-3-ols and proanthocyanidin in water stressed tea plants. Phytochemistry 67, 1120-1126.
Müller M., Hernández I., Alegre L., Munné-Bosch S. 2006. Enhanced alpha-tocopherol quinone levels and xanthiphyll cycle de-epoxodation in rosemary plants exposed to water deficit during a Mediterranean winter. Journal of Plant Physiology 163, 601-606.
López-Carbonell M., Munné-Bosch S., Alegre L. 2006. The ascorbate-deficient vtc-1 Arabidopsis mutant shows altered ABA accumulation in leaves and chloroplasts. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 25, 137-144.
Munné-Bosch S., Weiler W., Alegre L., Müller, M., Düchting P., Falk J. 2007. α-Tocopherol may influence cellular signaling by modulating jasmonic acid levels in plants. Planta 225, 681-691.
Abreu ME., Müller M., Alegre L., Munné-Bosch S. 2008. Phenolic diterpenes and α-tocopherol contents in leaf extracts of 60 Salvia species. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 88, 2648-2653.
Hernández I., Alegre L., Van Breusegen F., Munné-Bosch S. 2009. How relevant are flavonoids as antioxidants in plants? Trends in Plant Science 14, 125-132.
Jubany-Marí T., Munné-Bosch S., López-Carbonell M., Alegre L. 2009. Hydrogen peroxide is involved in the acclimation of the Mediterranean shrub, Cistus albidus L., to summer drought. Journal of Experimental Botany 60, 107-120.
Jubany-Marí T., Prinsen E., Munné-Bosch S., Alegre L. 2010. The timing of methyl jasmonate, hydrogen peroxide and ascorbate accumulation during water deficit and subsequent recovery in the mediterranean shrub Cistus albidus L. 2010. Environmental and Experimental Botany 69, 47-55.
Jubany-Marí S., Munné-Bosch S., Alegre L. 2010. Redox regulation of water stress responses in field-grown plants. Role of hydrogen peroxide and ascorbate. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 48, 351-358.
Jubany-Marí T., Alegre-Batlle L., Jiang K., Feldman LJ. 2010. Use of a redox-sensing GFP (c-roGFP1) for real-time monitoring of cytosol redox status in Arabidopsis thaliana water-stressed plants. FEBS letters 584, 889-897.
Hernández I., Alegre L., Munné-Bosch S. 2010. Plant aging and excess light enhance flana-3-ol content in Cistus clusii. Journal of Plant Physiology doi:10.1016/j.jplph.2010.06.026.
 
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