Research
Recognised research groups by the Generalitat de Catalunya
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Research group on plant biodiversity and biosystematics (GReB)
Biosistematics of vascular plants - Floristic biodiversity and taxonomy - Molecular biology cytogenetics
Bioinformatics: databases management of plant collections
Biology of conservation and management of threatened plants
Ethnobotany
Health and Cooperation Hydrology (HIDROSEC)
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Human and Animal Parasitology: Basic and Applied Aspects
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Plant Biotechnology: Phytochemicals production
- Production of plant compounds with therapeutic properties using transformed root technology.
- Taxus cell bioreactor culture potential for industrial production of taxol and baccatin III
- Application of metabolic engineering to improve tropic alkaloid production in Solanaceae transformed root cultures
- Application of metabolic engineering to the overproduction of Taxol and BaccatinaIII in Taxus cell cultures
- Potential of large-scale cultivation of transgenic medicinal plants as an industrial source of secondary metabolites with high added value.
