Martinez: "We need to start looking at biodiversity as a key factor in inducing resistance and biocontrol"



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## Martinez: "We need to start looking at biodiversity as a key factor in inducing resistance and biocontrol"

21/06/2024 |
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The link between industry and academia, the expansion of biodiversity for the induction of resistance in plants and even trees, the increase in knowledge of *Arabidopsis*, as well as the shift from a targeted to a non-targeted approach in systems biology, are some of the main themes that have been addressed by participants at the Plant BioProTech & & IOBC-IR Symposium held this week at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló.

Ainhoa Martínez Medina, a researcher at the Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca (IRNASA-CSIC), who was in charge of presenting the most recurrent themes of the congress, highlighted the importance of the link between industry and academia: "The business sector asks science to understand how their products work, and this helps us to know more about resistance induction and to solve the problem of high variability in the application of compounds".

"We are now seeing a lot of plant extracts, microbials, volatiles and microbiomes because of the collaboration between the two fields, and we are moving from very controlled conditions to field application, but also vice versa." Although the relationship is good, the researcher believes that more work needs to be done to facilitate the transition from description to validation and that it would be good to include this aspect in future meetings.

Martínez believes that good work has been done in transferring knowledge on *Arabidopsis*and that the experience could be transferred to other species such as tomato or even trees, where epigenetic mechanisms are also known. In her opinion, "we also need to start looking at biodiversity as a key factor in resistance induction and biocontrol", because when extended to other trophic levels, it could be complemented by beneficial microbes or other compounds.

"We have moved from a targeted to a non-targeted approach in systems biology to see how induced resistance and biocontrol work, which allows us to discover more and more processes and new molecules involved. The researcher left until the end of her talk a topic that she considers important: the interaction with other species, such as insects, specifically the imprinting of microbial-induced resistance in herbivorous insects.

Ainhoa Martínez Medina, a researcher at the Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca (IRNASA-CSIC), studies the use of beneficial microorganisms for plants, capable of modulating their immune system and inducing their resistance, and was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of 2.5 million euros by the European Commission a few months ago.

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