This group is mainly interested in studying plants’ response mechanisms to the environment during their growth and development. Given that plants are unable to escape from dangers, they have developed original, highly flexible, physical and chemical defence systems. For this reason, plants can be found in an extremely wide range of ecosystems. The study of vegetable response allows us to seek the most favourable conditions and the best species for optimum growth in different agricultural situations. Such varied responses are behind the great quantity of bioactive compounds produced by plants and the fact that most of the medicines we use are of vegetable origin. Biochemical, molecular and cellular biology technology provides us with useful tools when it comes to unravelling plants' basic processes and components.
The “Plant Physiology and Agrobiology” Research Group takes part in the “Environmental Agrobiology” postgraduate master, which has maintained the Ministry of Education and Science’s Mention of Quality since 2003. The members of the group teach 1st and 2nd cycle courses, including "Biology", "Vegetable Biology" and "Further Vegetable Physiology", to Technical Engineers in Agriculture and Agricultural Engineers at the Public University of Navarra’s School of Agricultural Engineers and also give classes at other universities, such as the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) and the University of Zaragoza (UZ).
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