RUBEN ALCAZAR HERNANDEZ

RUBEN ALCAZAR HERNANDEZ

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0002-3567-7586
Knowledge area: Fisiologia Vegetal

Research group:

  • Productes Naturals i Biotecnologia Vegetal
  • Grup de Productes Naturals

Contact Information
Department of Biology, Healthcare and the Environment
Facultat de Farmàcia - Universitat de Barcelona Departament de Productes Naturals, Biologia Vegetal i Edafologia Secció de Fisiologia Vegetal Avda Joan XXIII s/n 08028 Barcelona
934024492
ralcazar(a)ub.edu

Research interests

Quantitative genetics
Biotechnology
Poliamines

Projects

Bases moleculares y evolutivas en la interacción inmune incompatible entre poblaciones de Asia Central y Norte Europeas de A. thaliana . 2014 - 2016 . Ref.BFU2013-41337-P . Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad . PI: Ruben Alcazar Hernandez
Genetics of temperature modulation of plant immunity (DISEASENVIRON) . 2012 - 2016 . Ref.PCIG10-GA-2011-303568 . Unió Europea . PI: Antonio Fernandez Tiburcio; Ruben Alcazar Hernandez
Implicación de las poliaminas en la defensa de las plantas y en la interacción planta-microorganismo . 2018 - 2021 . Ref.BFU2017-87742-R . Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad . PI: Ruben Alcazar Hernandez
Development of soil bacteria based plant growth. F2I-FVal_2020-002 . 2021 - 2021 . Fundació Bosch i Gimpera de la Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Ruben Alcazar Hernandez
DESARROLLO DE PRODUCTOS BIOESTIMULANTES BASADOS EN MICROORGANISMOS PARA LA PROTECCIÓN FRENTE AL ESTRÉS ABIÓTICO EN CULTIVOS . 2021 - 2023 . Ref.PDC2021-121267-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Rubén Alcázar Hernández
CONTRIBUCIÓN DE LAS POLIAMINAS A LA RESPUESTA SISTÉMICA ADQUIRIDA (SAR) Y A LA SEÑALIZACIÓN SOBRE LA INTEGRIDAD DE LA PARED CELULAR (CWI) EN PLANTAS . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.PID2021-126896OB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Ruben Alcazar Hernandez

Relevant publications

Alcázar, R.; García, A.V.; Kronholm, I.; de Meaux, J.; Koornneef, M.; Parker, J.E.; Reymond, M. Natural variation at Strubbelig Receptor Kinase 3 drives immune-triggered incompatibilities between Arabidopsis thaliana accessions. In Nature Genetics. Volume 42. Number 12. 2010 . https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.704
Barboza, L.; Effgen, S.; Alonso-Blanco, C.; Kooke, R.; Keurentjes, J.J.; Koornneef, M.; Alcázar, R. Arabidopsis semidwarfs evolved from independent mutations in GA20ox1, ortholog to green revolution dwarf alleles in rice and barley. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS. Volume 110. Number 39. 2013 . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1314979110
Alcázar, R.; García, A.V.; Parker, J.E.; Reymond, M. Incremental steps toward incompatibility revealed by Arabidopsis epistatic interactions modulating salicylic acid pathway activation. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS. Volume 106. Number 1. 2009 . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0811734106
Platre MP; Satbhai SB; Brent L; Gleason MF; Cao M; Grison M; Glavier M; Zhang L; Gaillochet C; Goeschl C; Giovannetti M; Enugutti B; Neveu J; von Reth M; Alcázar R; Parker JE; Vert G; Bayer E; Busch W. The receptor kinase SRF3 coordinates iron-level and flagellin dependent defense and growth responses in plants. In Nature Communications. Volume 13. 2022 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32167-6
Ariga H; Katori T; Tsuchimatsu T; Hirase T; Tajima Y; Parker JE; Alcázar R; Koornneef M; Hoekenga O; Lipka AE; Gore MA; Sakakibara H; Kojima M; Kobayashi Y; Iuchi S; Kobayashi M; Shinozaki K; Sakata Y; Hayashi T; Saijo Y; Taji T. NLR locus-mediated trade-off between abiotic and biotic stress adaptation in Arabidopsis. In Nature Plants. Volume 3. 2017 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2017.72
Treves H; Murik O; Kedem I; Eisenstadt D; Meir S; Rogachev I; Szymanski J; Keren N; Orf I; Tiburcio AF; Alcázar R; Aharoni A; Kopka J; Kaplan A. Metabolic flexibility underpins growth capabilities of the fastest growing alga. In Current Biology. Volume 27. Number 16. 2017 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.014
Alcázar, R.; von Reth, M.; Bautor, J; Chae, E.; Weigel, D.; Koornneef, M.; Parker, J.E. Analysis of a plant complex resistance gene locus underlying immune-related hybrid incompatibility and its occurrence in nature. In PLoS Genetics. Volume 10. Number 12. 2014 . Institutional Repository
Atanasov, K.E.; Liu, C.; Erban, A.; Kopka, J.; Parker, J.E.; Alcázar, R. NLR mutations suppressing immune hybrid incompatibility and their effects on disease resistance. In Plant Physiology. Volume 177. Number 3. 2018 . Institutional Repository
Zhang, Chi; Atanasov, K.E.; Alcázar, R. Spermine inhibits PAMP-induced ROS and Ca2+ burst and reshapes the transcriptional landscape of PAMP-triggered immunity in Arabidopsis. In Journal of Experimental Botany. Volume 74. Number 1. 2022 . https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac411
Alcázar R; Tiburcio AF. Polyamines. In Methods in Molecular Biology. Volume. 1 Number. 1694 . Springer USA. 2018

Other activities

Membre del Comitè de Bioseguretat de la Universitat de Barcelona
Tresorer de la Sociedad Española de Biología Vegetal (SEBP)