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The team behind the project "Agrochemicals for crop resistance to climate change". From left to right: Maria del Mar Marquès, Ana I. Caño-Delgado and Fidel Lozano. 16 | September | 2021 A project led by Ana I. Caño-Delgado will be supported by ”la Caixa” Foundation to advance in the transfer of innovation to the society

The project seeks to develop compounds to protect crops against high temperatures
Tomato plants growing in a greenhouse in the Spanish region of Andalucía (Credit: TECNOVA Foundation) 15 | September | 2021 CRAG participates in the EU H2020 project VIRTIGATION to tackle viral diseases in tomato and cucurbits

The CSIC researcher at CRAG Juan José Lopez-Moya brings his expertise in whitefly transmission and mixed infections to the consortium
Arabidopsis roots stained and visualized under a confocal microscope. The root cells contour is shown in pink. In yellow, the stem cells from the quiescent centre. In the left, a wild-type root, and in the right, a root with mutated BRAVO and WOX5 genes. These mutation produces the division of the cells of the quiescent centre, which are more abundant in the right image. 05 | July | 2021 A specific protein complex from plant stem cells regulates their division and response to stress

BRAVO and WOX5 proteins, which are involved in the control of quiescent centre stem cells' division in plant roots, need each other for these cells to function properly
01 | July | 2021 Two new educational activities focused on the dialogue between high school students and scientists

CRAG participates in the creation of two new educational initiatives of the Barcelona City Council's EscoLab programme, together with the Bernat Metge and Josep Tous high schools
22 | June | 2021 An algorithm to measure fruit morphology

A team at CRAG developes a novel automatized pipeline for comprehensive phenomic analysis of fruit morphology traits to increase plant breeding efficiency in a fast and economical way
11 | June | 2021 Dr Ana I. Caño-Delgado, new board member of the EFB’s Plant, Agriculture and Food Division

Japanese plums display a wide variety of skin and flesh colours both in hue and pattern, going from anthocyanin-less green and yellow to anthocyanin-rich red, purple and blue. 09 | June | 2021 Localized the gene for red-to-blue plum skin

Researchers from CRAG and IRTA find the gene that determines Japanese plum skin colour due to the presence or absence of anthocyanins, a group of plant antioxidant pigments with health-promoting effects
08 | June | 2021 The science that feeds us at the Barcelona Biennial

CRAG professionals take part in different events of the City and Science Biennial
05 | May | 2021 The European Commission publishes study on the status of new genomic techniques under Union law

14 | April | 2021 María Coca, CSIC researcher at CRAG, passes away

Expert in the study of plant defence responses, she was lately leading projects to produce antimicrobial peptides in plants
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