Genetics and Genomics of Plant Complex Traits Lab
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Maria Carlota Vaz Patto |
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Genetics and Genomics of Plant Complex Traits Lab
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Current members |
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| Carmen Santos | Junior Researcher |
| Susana T Leitão | Post-Doc Researcher |
| Estefanía Uberegui | Post-Doc |
| Matilde Sanches | PhD Student |
| Helia Sales | PhD Student |
| Letice Gonçalves | PhD student |
| Francisco Mendes | PhD student |
| Rita Maravilha Marques | PhD student |
| Cláudia Lopes | PhD student |
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Collaborators |
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| Mara L Alves | Invited Researcher at PlantX-ITQB NOVA |
| Maria do Rosário Bronze | Faculdade de Farmácia UL, Head of the Food Functionality and Bioactives groups ITQB NOVA/ iBET |
| Susana de Sousa Araújo | Director of Investigação-Região Norte BLC3 |
| Diego Rubiales | IAS-CSIC, Córdoba, Spain |
| Zlatko Satovic | University of Zagreb, Croatia |
| Fred van Eeuwijk | Biometris, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands |
| Sophien Kamoun | TSL, Norwich, UK |
| Frank Van Breusegem | VIB-PSB University of Gent, Belgium |
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Current Projects |
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2023 - 2027 | BELIS - Breeding European Legumes for Increased Sustainability. Call HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-two-stage, Grant Agreement Nº 101081878-2. Project Coordinator: Bernadette Julier (INRAE, France) |
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2023 - 2024 | Durable resistance against the causal agent of powdery mildew (Erysiphe pisi) in grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.): Exploring transcriptomic variation to develop molecular breeding tools for legumes; Lat-E(asy) pisi (2022.08266.PTDC). Project Coordinator: Carmen Santos |
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2022-2027 | DIVINFOOD - Co-constructing interactive short and mid-tier food chains to value agrobiodiversity in healthy plant based food (Call H2020-SFS-2018-2020, Topic SFS-01-2018-2019-2020, Grant Agreement Nº 101000383). PI: Yuna Chiffoleau (INRAE, France). Co-funded by the European Commission – H2020 Programme |
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2021-2024 | DROMAMED- Capitalization of Mediterranean maize germplasm for improving stress tolerance. (Call Prima Section 2 2020, PRIMA/0014/2020). PI: Pedro Revilla (CSIC, Spain). Co-funded by the European Commission, H2020 Programme and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
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| 2020-2024 | DiVicia - Use and management of Vicia species for sustainability and resilience in biodiversity-based farming systems. (Call PRIMA Section 2 2019). PI: Joelle Fustec (ESA, France) |
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Past Projects |
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| 2018 – 2023 | BEAN LAND - Programa de Conservação e Melhoramento de Leguminosas de Grão (Phaseolus vulgaris) (PDR2020-784-042734). PI: MC Vaz Patto | |
| 2018-2022 | Programa de Melhoramento de Oliveira (PDR2020-784-042744) PI: P Fevereiro | |
| 2018-2022 | Programa de Conservação e Melhoramento de Forrageiras (PDR2020-784-042743) PI: P Fevereiro | |
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2017 – 2021 | DIVERSify - Designing InnoVative plant teams for Ecosystem Resilience and agricultural Sustainability. (Call H2020-SFS-2016-2017, Topic SFS-02-2016, Grant Agreement Nº 727284). PI: Alison Karley (JHI, UK) |
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2015-2019 | Using three-way interactions between plants, microbes and arthropods to enhance crop protection and production. COST Action FA1405. PI: Arjen Biere (KNAW, NL) Participants: MC Vaz Patto as Managing Committee Member. COST - European co-operation in the field of scientific and technical research. |
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2015-2019 | DIVERSIFOOD - Embedding crop diversity and networking for local high quality food systems (Call H2020-SFS-2014-2, Topic SFS-07a-2014, Grant Agreement Nº 633571) PI: Veronique Chable (INRA, France) |
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2015-2018 | PEARES - Pea breeding for disease resistance (Mejora genetica del guisante por resistencia a enfermedades) (AGL2014-52871-R) PI: Diego Rubiales and Sara Fondevila (IAS-CSIC, Spain) |
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2016-2019 | Deciphering the grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) quality riddle. How can the omics technologies contribute to a demand-driven improvement in legume quality? (QuaLaty) (PTDC/AGR-TEC/0992/2014). PI: MC Vaz Patto |
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2013-2015 | Exploiting Bean Genetics for food Quality and Attractiveness innovation (BEGEQA). Funded by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/AGR-TEC/3555/2012). PI: MC Vaz Patto |
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2014-2017 | LEGATO - LEGumes for the Agriculture of TOmorrow (FP7-KBBE-2013-7 call, Grant Agreement Nº 613551). PI: Richard Thompson (INRA, France). Co-funded by the European Commission. FP7 Framework Programme. |
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Main Publications |
| 2024 |
| SALES H, Alves ML, Sampaio AM, Vaz Patto MC (2024) Understanding the phenotypic variability of the olive ‘Galega vulgar’ fruits and oil-related traits across environments. Scientia Horticulturae 326:112738. doi: 10.1016/j.scienta.2023.112738. |
| SANCHES M, Sampaio AM, Araújjo S, van Eeuwijk F, Van Breusegem F, Vaz Patto MC (2024) Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) interesting panoply of mechanisms to cope with contrasting water stress conditions – a study of worldwide diversity and sub populational differences. Agricultural Water Management 292:108664. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108664. |
| SANTOS C, Leitão ST (2024) The exceptionally large genomes of the Fabeae tribe: Comparative genomics and applications in abiotic and biotic stress studies. Agriculture 14(1):77. doi: 10.3390/agriculture14010077. |
| 2023 |
| LEITÃO ST, Mendes FA, Rubiales D, Vaz Patto MC (2023) Oligogenic control of quantitative resistance against powdery mildew revealed in Portuguese common bean germplasm. Plant Disease 107(10): 3113-3122. doi: 10.1094/PDIS-02-23-0313-RE. |
| LEITÃO ST, Rubiales D. & Vaz Patto MC (2023) Identification of novel sources of partial and incomplete hypersensitive resistance to rust and associated genomic regions in common bean. BMC Plant Biol 23: 610. doi: 10.1186/s12870-023-04619-8. |
| MARTINS DC, Santos C, Sampaio AM, Rubiales D, Vaz Patto MC (2023) Lathyrus sativus resistance against existing and emerging powdery mildews (Erysiphe pisi and Erysiphe trifolii): A case of commonalities or total discrepancy?. Phytopathology 13(5):866-872. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-06-22-0227-FI. |
| MECHA E, Alves ML, Bento da Silva A, Pereira AB, Carbas B, Brites C, Rubiales D, Vaz Patto MC, Bronze MR (2023) High inter- and intra- diversity of amino acid content and protein digestibility disclosed in five cool season legume species with a growing market demand. Foods 12:1383. doi: 10.3390/foods12071383. |
| 2022 |
| BENTO-SILVA A, Duarte N, Santos M, Costa CP, Patto MCV, Rocha SM, Bronze MR (2022) Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography as a Powerful Strategy for the Exploration of Broas Volatile Composition. Molecules,27(9). doi: 10.3390/molecules27092728 |
| GONÇALVES L, Rubiales D, Bronze MR, Vaz Patto MC (2022) Grass Pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) - A Sustainable and Resilient Answer to Climate Challenges. Agronomy 12:6. doi: 10.3390/agronomy12061324 |
| JIMENEZ-LOPEZ JC, Clemente A, Ochatt SJ, Vaz Patto MC, Von Wettberg E, Smýkal P (2022) Editorial: Biological and genetic basis of agronomical and seed quality traits in legumes. Frontiers in Plant Science,13. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1009980 |
| MARTINS DC, Rubiales D, Vaz Patto MC (2022) Association Mapping of Lathyrus sativus Disease Response to Uromyces pisi Reveals Novel Loci Underlying Partial Resistance. Frontiers in Plant Science,13. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.842545 |
| REVILLA P, Alves ML, Anđelković V, Balconi C, Dinis I, Mendes-Moreira P, Redaelli R, Ruiz de Galarreta JI, Vaz Patto MC, Žilić S, Malvar RA (2022) Traditional foods from maize (Zea mays L.) in Europe. Frontiers in Nutrition 8:683399. DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2021.683399. |
| MENDES F, Leitão S, Correia V, Mecha E, Rubiales D, Bronze, MR, Vaz Patto MC (2022) Portuguese Common Bean Natural Variation Helps to Clarify the Genetic Architecture of the Legume’s Nutritional Composition and Protein Quality. Plants 11(1):26. DOI: 10.3390/plants11010026 |
| MECHA E, Erny GL, Guerreiro ACL, Feliciano RP, Barbosa I, Bento da Silva A, Leitão ST, Veloso MM, Rubiales D, Rodriguez-Mateos A, Figueira ME, Vaz Patto MC, Bronze MR (2022) Metabolomics profile responses to changing environments in a Portuguese common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) germplasm collection. Food Chemistry 370:131003. DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.131003 |
| SALES H, Figueiredo F, Vaz Patto MC, Nunes J (2022) Assessing the environmental sustainability of Portuguese olive growing practices from a life cycle assessment perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production,355. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.131692 |
| SANTOS C, Martins DC, González-Bernal MJ, Rubiales D, Vaz Patto MC (2022) Integrating Phenotypic and Gene Expression Linkage Mapping to Dissect Rust Resistance in Chickling Pea. Frontiers in Plant Science,13. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.837613 |
| 2021 |
| RUBIALES D, Annicchiarico P, Vaz Patto MC, Julier B (2021) Legume breeding for the Agroecological transition of global agri-food systems: A European perspective. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 12:782574. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.782574 |
| BENTO-SILVA A, Duarte N, Belo M, Mecha E, Carbas B, Brites C, Vaz Patto MC, Bronze MR (2021) Shedding light on the volatile composition of broas, a traditional Portuguese maize bread. Biomolecules 11(10):1396. DOI: 10.3390/biom11101396 |
| SAMPAIO AM, Alves ML, Pereira PM, Ehsan V, Santos C, Satovic Z, Rubiales D, Araújo SS, van Eeuwijk F, Vaz Patto MC (2021) Grass pea natural variation reveals oligogenic resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. pisi. Plant Genome 2021:e20154. DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20154 |
| ERNY G, Brito E, Pereira AB, Bento da Silva A, Vaz Patto MC, Bronze M (2021) Projection to latent correlative structures, a dimension reduction strategy for spectral-based classification. RSC Advances 11: 29124–29129. DOI: 10.1039/D1RA03359J |
| LEITÃO ST, Alves ML, Pereira P, Zerrouk A, Godinho B, Barradas A, Vaz Patto MC (2021) Towards a trait-based approach to potentiate yield under drought in legume-rich annual forage mixture. Plants 10(9): 1763. DOI: 10.3390/plants10091763 |
| MECHA E, Correia V, Bento-Silva A, Ferreira A, Figueira ME, Vaz Patto MC, Bronze M (2021) Improvement of wheat cookies' nutritional quality, by partial substitution with common bean and maize flours, sustained human glycaemia and enhanced satiety perception. Cereal Chemistry 98:1123–1134. DOI: 10.1002/cche.10460 |
| LEITÃO ST, Santos C, Araújo SS, Rubiales D, Vaz Patto MC (2021) Shared and tailored transcriptomic responses to combined fusarium wilt and water deficit in common bean. Horticulture research 8:149. DOI: 10.1038/s41438-021-00583-2 |
| SALES H, Šatović Z, Alves ML, Fevereiro P, Nunes J, Vaz Patto MC (2021) Accessing ancestral origin and diversity evolution by net divergence of an ongoing domestication Mediterranean olive tree variety. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 12:688214. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.688214 |
| BENTO-SILVA A, Duarte N, Mecha E, Belo M, Serra T, Vaz Patto MC, Bronze MR (2021) Broa, an ethnic maize bread, as a source of phenolic compounds. Antioxidants 10(5): 672. DOI: 10.3390/antiox10050672 |
| SANTOS C, Polanco C, Rubiales D, Vaz Patto MC (2021) MLO1 powdery mildew susceptibility gene in Lathyrus spp.: The power of high density linkage maps in comparative mapping and synteny analysis. Plant Genome 14: e20090. DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20090 |
| SAMPAIO AM, Vitale S, Turrà D, Di Pietro A, Rubiales D, van Eeuwijk F, Vaz Patto MC (2021) A diversity of resistance sources to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. pisi found within grass pea germplasm. Plant and Soil 463: 19–38. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-021-04895-z. |
| MECHA E, Natalello S, Carbas B, Bento da Silva A, Leitão ST, Brites C, Veloso MM, Rubiales D, Costa J, Cabral MF, Figueira ME, Vaz Patto MC, Bronze MR (2021) Disclosing the nutritional quality diversity of Portuguese common beans – the missing link for its effective use on protein quality breeding programmes. Agronomy 11(2): 221. DOI: 10.3390/agronomy11020221 |
| SAMPAIO AM, Rubiales D, Vaz Patto MC (2021) Grass pea and pea phylogenetic relatedness reflected at Fusarium oxysporum host range. Crop Protection 141: 105495. DOI:10.1016/j.cropro.2020.105495. |
| LEITÃO ST, Bicho MC, Pereira P, Paulo MJ, Malosetti M, Araújo SS, van Eeuwijk F, Vaz Patto MC (2021) Common bean SNP alleles and candidate genes affecting photosynthesis under contrasting water regimes. Horticultural Research 8:4. DOI:10.1038/s41438-020-00434-6 |
| ROCHA C, Ribeiro JC, Costa Lima R, Prista C, Raymundo A, Vaz Patto MC, Cunha LM (2021) Application of the CATA methodology with children: qualitative approach on ballot development and product characterization of innovative products. Food Quality and Preference 88:104083. DOI:10.1016/j.foodqual.2020.104083. |
| Other Selected Publications |
| ALVES ML, Bento-Silva A, Gaspar D, Paulo M, Brites C, Mendes-Moreira P, Bronze MR, Malosetti M, van Eeuwijk F, Vaz Patto MC (2020) Volatilome‒genome-wide association study on wholemeal maize flour. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 68 (29):7809–7818. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c01273 |
| ALVES ML, Bento-Silva A, Carbas B, Gaspar D, Paulo M, Brites C, Mendes-Moreira P, Brites CM, Bronze MR, Malosetti M, van Eeuwijk F, Vaz Patto MC (2020) Alleles to enhance antioxidant content in maize − a genome-wide association approach. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 68(13):4051-4061. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b07190. |
| SANTOS C, Almeida NF, Alves ML, Horres R, Krezdorn N, Leitão ST, Aznar-Fernández T, Rotter B, Winter P, Rubiales D, Vaz Patto MC (2018) First genetic linkage map of Lathyrus cicera based on RNA sequencing-derived markers: Key tool for genetic mapping of disease resistance. Horticulture Research 5:45. DOI: 10.1038/s41438-018-0047-9 |
| BENTO DA SILVA A, Vaz Patto MC, Bronze MR (2018) Relevance, structure and analysis of ferulic acid in maize cell walls. Food Chemistry 246:360-378. DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2017.11.012. 6.306 |
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ALVES ML, Brites C, Paulo M, Carbas B, Belo M, Mendes-Moreira P, Brites C, Bronze MR, Gunjaca J, Satovic Z, Vaz Patto MC (2017) Setting up decision-making tools towards a quality-oriented participatory maize breeding program. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 2203. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02203. 5.753 |
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LEITÃO ST, Dinis, M, Veloso MM, Satovic Z, Vaz Patto MC (2017) Establishing the bases for introducing the unexplored Portuguese common bean germplasm into the breeding world. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 1296. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01296. 5.753 |
