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Research Group on Molecular and Organismal Evolution in Plants - EMO

Description

Our current research interests can be reasonably covered by the following topics:

  • Effects of reticulation in phylogeny reconstruction.
  • Phylogeny of angiosperm groups using morphological and molecular data.
  • Biogeography (and specifically, phylogeography) of plant groups in the Mediterranean region.
  • What is the relation between high diversity (in terms of morphologically and ecologically distinguishable entities) and extensive hybridization in two angiosperm genera like Armeria (and Limonium (Plumbaginaceae)?
  • Is there a biogeographical pattern at all in a disturbed region like the Western Mediterranean that we may seek to discover by conducting phylogeographic studies in angiosperm groups?
  • Molecular Evolution in asexual plant lineages.
  • Molecular and organismal evolution in islands, with an emphasis in the contrast betwween continental and oceanic islands.
  • Detection of food adulteration using molecular markers.
  • Biological identification using molecular and cytogenetic markers.
Goals CT

Molecular and karyotypic evolution and its relation to plant differentiation and speciation, phylogeography and phylogeny.

Research lines
  • Molecular evolution of nuclear ribosomal multigene families

    Karyological and molecular study of the nuclear ribosomal 45S and 5S families, including their genomic location, molecular evolution, mechanisms of concerted evolution and phylogeographic and phylogenetic significance.

  • Food fraud detection

    Use of molecular markers based on DNA polymorphisms for the detection of food fraud of plant origin (food stabilisers, vegetable oils, spices).

Management
  • ROSSELLO PICORNELL, JOSEP ANTONI
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
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Associated structure
Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
Contact group details
Molecular and Organismal Evolution in Plants (EMO)

Burjassot/Paterna Campus

C/ Doctor Moliner, 50

46100 Burjassot (Valencia)

+34 963 156 832

Geolocation

josep.rossello@uv.es

Contact people
  • ROSSELLO PICORNELL, JOSEP ANTONI
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
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