Project description
Deciphering the role of iron homeostasis in plant stress responses
The world’s population relies on crop plants for nutrition. However, climate change, pollution and intensive farming practices pose a serious threat to food security. This subjects crops to increasing abiotic stresses that can significantly impact their growth, development and survival. Plants themselves have evolved intricate molecular and physiological mechanisms to adapt to abiotic stresses. Iron oxidation state dynamics is thought to play a key role in plant stress responses, but the molecular mechanisms of iron homeostasis that influence such stress responses are not well understood. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the PlantsStressIron project aims to gain insight into plant resilience by examining the regulatory role of iron under nutritional stresses commonly present in soils.
Objective
Human nutrition depends on plant growth. However, climate change, pollution and intense agricultural practices cause soil degradation imposing severe stresses for crops, threatening food security. As sessile organisms, plants evolved complex molecular and physiological mechanisms to adapt to these abiotic stresses. In recent years, it has been unveiled that iron (Fe) oxidation state dynamics is a key factor for optimal response to several abiotic stresses. This proposed regulatory role for Fe is disruptive and largely unexplored. Thus, deciphering the molecular mechanisms at the intersection of Fe homeostasis and stress responses has important implications for agriculture and our understanding of plant resilience. This is in line with the second goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims to transform our world by ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture. The present project aims to contribute to our understanding of plant resilience by studying the regulatory role of Fe under nutritional stresses commonly present in soils.
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- medical and health sciences health sciences nutrition
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- medical and health sciences basic medicine physiology homeostasis
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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28006 Madrid
Spain
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