Research Group on Plant Conservation Biology

Description

Plant conservation biology deals with the study of the causes of such biodiversity loss and how to minimise it through conversation techniques, both in situ and ex situ. It is also concerned with boosting sustainable development through the rational use of plant and landscape resources. It focuses its research on various aspects related to the preservation and rational use of natural resources.

Goals CT

Development of in-situ and ex-situ plant conservation strategies.
Analysis and quality control of medicinal plants.

Research lines

Medicinal plants
Study of medicinal plants, the structure of plant organs and the substances that provide medicinal, toxic or bromatological proprieties. This study is oriented towards the rational use of resources and its results can be directly applied to health, industry and agriculture.
Floristics
Floristics is the part of phytogeography dedicated to making inventory of systematic entities or taxa of a territory, i.e. the flora of that territory, as well as its area of distribution, which is fundamental for the development of plant conservation strategies.
Ex-situ conservation
Application of conservation techniques for endangered species, viability studies, germination physiology and seed and spore ageing.
Anatomy
Recognition of plant organs and tissues that help to understand adaptation mechanisms, physiological processes, structural alterations, ontogenetic processes as well as to establish relationships between species, gender and families.
Vegetation and in-situ conservation
Study of plant communities and their relationship with environmental factors. In-situ conservation.

Management