iPlantMicro Lab
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Juan Ignacio Vílchez |
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| Principal Investigator | ||
| nacho.vilchez@itqb.unl.pt | ||
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Current members |
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| João Barnabé | PhD student |
| Inês Rebelo Romão | MSc |
| Ana Sofia Rodrigues dos Santos | MSc |
| Tatiana Gil | MSc |
| André Sousa | MSc student |
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Collaborators |
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| Maximino Manzanera | Universidad de Granada (Spain) |
| Jesús Juan González López | Universidad de Granada (Spain) |
| Alfonso Navas | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC (Spain) |
| Huiming Zhang | Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology (PSC) (China) |
| Alberto Macho | Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology (PSC) (China) |
| Roza Durán | Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology (PSC) (China) |
| David Dowling | Institute of Technology Carlow (Ireland) |
| Richard Lally | Institute of Technology Carlow (Ireland) |
| Karsten Niehaus | Center for Biotechnology - CeBiTec, Universität Beielefeld (Germany) |
| Vivek Dogra | CSIR - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (India) |
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Current Projects |
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2023 – 2027 | PRR - Vertical Algas: SubProject 6: Agricultura: Biofertilizantes e biopesticidas baseados em algas para uma agricultura sustentável (C644915664-00000026) Coordinator: INOVAMAR, LDA |
| 2023 - 2025 | PRR - AgriPlastl: Organization of production and innovation to reduce agricultural plastics; PRR-C05-i03- I-000167 |
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2022 – 2025 | SoilSynbiotics - Development of Synbiotics for enhancing the soil microbiome (ID169). Coordinator: Dr. Ruben R. Rosencrantz |
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Past Projects |
| LegumBiome - Using of stress-adapted wild legume microbiomes to improve response in commercial species |
| SolaNFlower - Characterization of conditioning traits of microbiomes in plants of the Solanaceae family |
| AlgaeStimulant - Use of algae extracts as biostimulant and beneficial microbiome enhancer in plants |
| Rice EpiBiome - Characterization of epigenetic markers influenced by microbiomes in rice |
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2017 - 2018 | Understanding how histone H3K9 demethylase (IBM1) is involved in bacteria-induced plant growth promotion in soil trials regular and stressing conditions in Arabidopsis ( Ref. 2017PB0012) Chinese academy of sciences (CAS). PI: Juan Ignacio Vílchez |
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2019 - 2020 | Discerning role of DDF1 in plant growth-promotion mediated by Bacillus strains as a molecular tool to increase crop yield (Ref. 31850410465) Chinese academy of sciences (CAS). PI: Juan Ignacio Vílchez |
| 2020 - 2020 | Active DNA demethylation involvement in plant-bacteria symbiosis success by conditioning recruitment signaling in rhizosphere (Ref. 2017PB0012). Chinese academy of sciences (CAS). PI: Juan Ignacio Vílchez |
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Main selected publications |
| 2024 |
| GIL T, Rebelo Romão I, do Carmo Gomes J, Vergara-Diaz O, Amoroso Lopes de Carvalho L, Sousa A, Kasa F, Teixeira R, Mateus S, Katamadze A, Pinheiro D, Vicente R, Vílchez JI (2024). Specificity and Yield Impact of Native vs. Non-Native Seed-Isolated Strains for Drought Resilience Enhancing in Maize (Zea Mays L.). Preprint: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4688926 |
| 2023 |
| GIL T, Teixeira R, Sousa A, d’Oliveira Palmeiro MA, Cruz Coimbra de Matos A, Niza Costa M, Ferrer MV, Rodrígues dos Santos AS, Sequero López C, Rebelo Romão I, Vílchez JI (2023). Isolation and Characterization of Culturable Osmotolerant Microbiota in Hypersaline and Hypergypsic Soils as New Treatment for Osmotic Stress in Plants. Soil Systems, 7, 86. doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems7040086 |
| Niza Costa M, Gil T, Teixeira R, Rodrígues dos Santos AS, Rebelo Romão I, Sequero López C, Vílchez JI (2023). Combined Use of a Bacterial Consortium and Early-Colonizing Plants as a Treatment for Soil Recovery after Fire: A Model Based on Los Guájares (Granada, Spain) Wildfire. Biology, 12, 1093. doi.org/10.3390/biology12081093 |
| 2022 |
| HE D, Singh SK, Peng L, Kaushal R, Vílchez JI, Shao C, Wu X, Zheng S, Morcillo RJL, Paré PW, Zhang H (2022) Flavonoid-attracted Aeromonas sp. from the Arabidopsis root microbiome enhances plant dehydration resistance. ISME Journal,16(11) 2622-2632. doi: 10.1038/s41396-022-01288-7 |
| LV S, Yang Y, Yu G, Peng L, Zheng S, Singh SK, Vílchez JI, Kaushal R, Zi H, Yi D, Wang Y, Luo S, Wu X, Zuo Z, Huang W, Liu R, Du J, Macho AP, Tang K, Zhang H (2022) Dysfunction of histone demethylase IBM1 in Arabidopsis causes autoimmunity and reshapes the root microbiome. ISME Journal,16(11) 2513-2524. doi: 10.1038/s41396-022-01297-6 |
| NIZA-COSTA M, Rodríguez-dos Santos AS, Rebelo-Romão I, Ferrer MV, Sequero López C, Vílchez JI (2022) Geographically disperse, culturable seed-associated microbiota in forage plants of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and pitch clover (Bituminaria bituminosa L.): Characterization of beneficial inherited strains as plant stress-tolerance enhancers. Biology, 11, 1838. doi.org/10.3390/biology11121838 |
| REBELO ROMÃO I, Rodrigues Dos Santos AS, Velasco L, Martínez-Ferri E, Vilchez JI, Manzanera M (2022) Seed-Encapsulation of Desiccation-Tolerant Microorganisms for the Protection of Maize from Drought: Phenotyping Effects of a New Dry Bioformulation. Plants,11(8). doi: 10.3390/plants11081024 |
| RODRIGUES-DOS SANTOS AS, Rebelo-Romão I, Zhang H, Vílchez JI (2022) Discerning transcriptomic and biochemical responses of Arabidopsis thaliana treated with the biofertilizer strain Priestia megaterium YC4-R4: Boosting plant central and secondary metabolism. Plants, 11, 3039. doi.org/10.3390/plants11223039 |
| YANG Y, Chen S, Wu X, Peng L, Vílchez JI, Kaushal R, Liu X, Singh SK, He D, Yuan F, Lv S, Morcillo RJL, Wang W, Huang W, Lei M, Zhu JK, Paré PW, Zhang H (2022) Plant latent defense response to microbial non-pathogenic factors antagonizes compatibility. National science review, 9(8), nwac109. doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwac109 |
| 2021 |
| KAUSHAL R, Peng L, Singh SK, Zhang M, Zhang X, Vílchez JI, Wang Z, He D, et al. (2021) Dicer-like proteins influence Arabidopsis root microbiota independent of RNA-directed DNA methylation. Microbiome 9, 57. DOI: 10.1186/s40168-020-00966-y |
| MORCILLO RJ, Vílchez JI, Zhang S, Kaushal R, He D, Zi H, Liu R, Niehaus K, Handa AK, Zhang H (2021) Plant Transcriptome Reprograming and Bacterial Extracellular Metabolites Underlying Tomato Drought Resistance Triggered by a Beneficial Soil Bacteria. Metabolites, 11(6), p.369. DOI: 10.3390/metabo11060369 |
| Other Selected Publications |
| VÍLCHEZ JI, Yang Y, He D, Zi H, Peng L, Lv S, Kaushal R, Wang W, Huang W, Liu R, Lang Z, Miki D, Tang K, Paré PW, Song CP, Zhu JK, Zhang H (2020) DNA demethylases are required for myo-inositol-mediated mutualism between plants and beneficial rhizobacteria. Nat Plants, 2020. 6(8): p. 983-995. DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-0707-2 |
| VÍLCHEZ JI, García-Fontana C, Manzanera M (2020) Proteome comparison between natural desiccation-tolerant plants and drought-protected Capsicum annuum plants by Microbacterium sp. 3J1. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11, 1537. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01537 |
| MORCILLO RJL, Singh SK, He D, An G, Vílchez JI (2020) Rhizobacterium‐derived diacetyl modulates plant immunity in a phosphate‐dependent manner. The EMBO Journal. 39: e102602. DOI: 10.15252/embj.2019102602 |
| KESWANI C, Prakash O, Bharti N, Vílchez JI, Sansinenea E, Lally RD (2019) Re-addressing the biosafety issues of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria. Science of The Total Environment. 690,841-852. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.046 |
| GARCÍA-FONTANA C, Vílchez JI, González-Requena M (2019) The involvement of McpB chemoreceptor from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 in virulence. Scientific reports. 9:1,111. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-49697-7 |
| VÍLCHEZ JI, Niehaus K, Dowling DN, González-López J, Manzanera M (2018) Protection of pepper plants from drought by Microbacterium sp. 3J1 by modulation of the plant's glutamine and α-ketoglutarate content: a comparative metabolomics approach. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9,284. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00284 |
| VÍLCHE JI, Tang Q, Kaushal R, Wang W (2018) Genome sequence of bacillus megaterium strain YC4-R4, a plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium isolated from a high salinity environment. Genome Announcements. 6,25, e00527-18. DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00527-18 |
| VÍLCHEZ JI, Navas A, González-López J, Arcos SC, Manzanera M (2016) Biosafety test for plant growth-promoting bacteria: proposed Environmental and Human Safety Index (EHSI) protocol. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6, 1514. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01514 |
| VÍLCHEZ JI, García-Fontana C, Román-Naranjo D, González-López J, Manzanera M (2016) Plant drought tolerance enhancement by trehalose production of desiccation tolerant microorganisms. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7,1577. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01577 |
