LAQV REQUIMTE

(Chemical) Bonding is what makes life possible

Maria Celeste Pereira Dias

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Research group
LAQV Collaborative

Position
Researcher

Researcher IDK-7622-2015
Ciência ID6312-8589-E26E
Research interests:
Responses and adaptation mechanisms of agricultural species to environmental challenges. Impact of climate change and contaminants in central metabolic pathways, such as photosynthesis and carbon metabolism, and defense mechanisms of agricultural crops.

Current research:
- Understand olive adaptations to changing environments: physiology, metabolomics and gene expression;
- Impact of drought and heat on olives composition and olive oil quality;
- Valorisation of olive by-products.

Representative Publications

Heat shock and UV-B episodes modulate olive leaves lipophilic and phenolic metabolite profiles
10.1016/j.indcrop.2019.03.036
The antioxidant system in Olea europaea to enhanced UV-B radiation also depends on flavonoids and secoiridoids
10.1016/j.phytochem.2019.112199