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My research career has addressed the socio-economic challenge of reducing postharvest fruit quality loss caused by biotic and abiotic stresses. During my PhD, I studied the molecular bases of citrus fruit dehydration, its hormonal regulation and its relationship with ripening and the development of peel disorders that depreciate their external quality. The scientific progress is supported by an Extraordinary Thesis Award and 7 SCI publications (Romero et al., 2012a,b; 2013a,b; 2014b; 2019; 2021a). During the PhD period and further competitive contracts I was involved in parallel projects dealing with the effects of ethylene on peel damage (PD) (Lafuente et al., 2014; Establés-Ortiz et al., 2016). Likewise, I studied starvation stress produced after fruit detachment, its hormonal regulation, and its link with phospholipid metabolism and the development of PD (Romero et al., 2020a,b). Moreover, I studied the elicitation of resistance against the major pathogen of citrus fruit (Penicillium digitatum) by led blue light and the role of phospholipases in the susceptibility to infection (Lafuente et al., 2021a,b,c). From my PhD results, two major questions caught my interest and drove my three postdoctoral periods: 1) how the cuticle, the first barrier against dehydration is regulated in response to water stress and how the hormone abscisic acid (ABA) may influence such response, and 2) why/how copper (Cu) homeostasis is involved in the fruit water stress response. Funded by my first MSCA project (3F:FutureFreshFruit, Co-PI), I continued the study of the molecular bases of tomato and citrus fruit resistance to dehydration, considering the cuticle as a key factor. During a 3-year postdoctoral stay, coordinated between USA (Prof. Rose, Cornell University; 2 years) and Spain (Dr. Lafuente, IATA-CSIC; 1 year), I acquired great knowledge on cuticle characterization, built important connections for my network of collaborators and improved my CV by 6 SCI publications in which my leadership as corresponding author highly increased (Martin et al., 2017; Romero and Rose, 2019; Romero and Lafuente, 2020; 2021; 2022a,b). To investigate the second question, I joined Prof. Peñarrubia lab (University of Valencia) after obtaining through competitive call a Junior Postdoctoral contract. During a 1-year postdoctoral stay, I studied the interconnection between Cu transport and hormone and stress signaling in model plant. This collaboration resulted in 3 SCI publications (Peñarrubia et al., 2015; Carriò-Seguí et al., 2016; Carriò-Seguí et al., 2019) and set the basis for my second MSCA project (TOMACOPT, Co-PI). This two-year postdoctoral stay dealt with the effects of Cu-deficiency on tomato fruit quality, and has resulted in 1 SCI publication (Romero et al., 2021b) up to now. Recently, I obtained a competitive CSIC project (MSCA-ERC-CSIC, PI) that will set a bridge between my last MSCA project and the ERC proposal I will submit in the next call. Also, I have been granted with a highly competitive project (ABACus, PlanGenT-GVA, IP) by which I will continue studying how Cu deficiency may influence tomato postharvest quality and its relation with the nutritional value and cuticle properties. With these projects I have opened a new research line in the Postharvest Biotechnology, Physiology and Pathology group at the IATA-CSIC aiming to provide innovative solutions to problems facing European agriculture (i.e. Cu deficiency and water stress) by transforming their deleterious effects into a sustainable benefit for food quality and safety, and hence for human health.
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Plant physiology and biochemistry PPB (2024): 108970-108970
POSTHARVEST BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY (2023): 112399-112399
Plantsno. 10 (2023): 2062-2062
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2023)
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