Varga Pastor, Herminia de la (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
The availability of most edible ectomycorrhizal mushrooms depends on their natural fructification. Therefore, mycorrhizal plant production could be an alternative for obtaining ectomycorrhizal edible ...
Torrealba Sandoval, Débora Alejandra (Date of defense: 2016-06-03)
El mantenimiento de la homeostasis del sistema inmune innato es fundamental, ya que éste debe mantener una respuesta equilibrada frente a los patógenos. En mamíferos, uno de los mecanismos por el cual ...
Rizzo, Valeria (Date of defense: 2015-10-08)
The general aim of this dissertation is to investigate the evolution, the diversification and some ecological traits of the species of the strictly subterranean genus Troglocharinus Reitter, 1908. ...
Martín Matas, Guiomar (Date of defense: 2015-11-27)
Plants germinated in the dark under the soil surface, undergo skotomorphogenic development. Once they emerge from the soil surface perceive light for the first time. Then, seedlings switch from ...
Rivera Rondón, Carlos Alberto (Date of defense: 2014-02-20)
Lakes are ecosystems exposed to the combined influence of climate and catchment processes. Lakes collect and archive evidence of these forcings in their sediments through of a complex interaction with ...
Domínguez Carrió, Carlos (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)
Aiming to improve the conservation status of the European seas, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) was adopted in 2008, establishing a general framework for all EU countries in the field of ...
Peyre, Gwendolyn (Date of defense: 2015-05-12)
The páramo is a high mountain ecosystem that includes the natural and semi-natural habitats located between the montane treeline and the permanent snowline in the humid Northern Andes. Given its recent ...
Galván Candela, Juan Diego (Date of defense: 2014-01-21)
Iberian Pinus uncinata tree-growth variability and its responses to climate are analyzed by means of dendrochonological methods from an individual- to a population-level scale across its distribution ...
Ruiz Cánovas, Eugenia (Date of defense: 2018-12-10)
Compound F has been reported to possess important antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti- diabetic and anti-cancer effects, among other interesting properties. Although Compound F has been extensively ...
Henryka Gawrzak, Sylwia (Date of defense: 2016-11-23)
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and remains the second leading cause of death among women in Europe and United States. In this malignancy, metastasis remains to be an incurable ...