Breve Descrição | Brief Description:
This project focus on the study of rare, endemic Limonium spp., well-known halophytes widespread in Portugal coasts, with environmental, ornamental, and pharmacy interests.
The goals of this project are to elucidate taxonomic, population genetic diversity and reproduction modes of taxonomically complex groups (“complexes”): Limonium ovalifolium and Limonium binervosum complexes, and Limonium vulgare and related taxa. Through a multidisciplinary approach using tools from numerical taxonomy, cytology, molecular biology and reproduction analysis, we gained deeper insights into these complexes to design better conservation strategies. This study offer a basis for ongoing and future research projects dealing with the expression of apomixis as well as genome evolution in Limonium.
Equipa | Team:
Principal Investigator: Ana D. Caperta
International collaborators: Dr. Matthias Erben, Department Biologie I der LMU München, Systematische Botanik (LMU, sysbot.biologie.uni-muenchen.de), Germany; Dr. Tim Sharbel, Apomixis Group, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK, ipk-gatersleben.de), Germany; Prof. Mike Wilkinson, School of Agriculture, Wine and Food, University of Adelaide (UA, adelaide.edu.au/), Australia; Prof. Miguel Guara Requena, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Universidade de Valência (UV, uv.es), Spain;
National collaborators: Engª Dalila Espírito-Santo, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, (ISA, www.isa.ulisboa.pt); Prof. Generosa Teixeira, Faculdade de Farmácia (FF, ff.ul.pt).
Instituições | Institutions:
Centro de Botânica Aplicada à Agricultura, Instituto Superior de Agronomia
Calendário | Dates:
Julho 2009 – 30 Junho 2014
Financiamento | Financial support:
FUNDAÇÃO PARA A CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA (PLURIANUAL/CBAA/RG-LVT-240-2888 and Pest-OE/Agr/UI0240/2011)
Contacto | contact:
Ana D. Caperta
Centro de Botânica Aplicada à Agricultura
Instituto Superior de Agronomia
Tapada da Ajuda
1349-017
Lisboa
