My research interests are on the area of plant sciences and focused in sustainable agriculture. I want to help developing strategies that can contribute to minimise human impact on planetary boundaries, such as decreasing agricultural derived CO2 emissions to the atmosphere.
My latest job as a Senior Research Technician working in plant nodulation allowed me to discover the possibility of using beneficial microbes to provide nutrients to plants and decrease human fertiliser usage, which production is responsible for almost 50% of agricultural CO2 emissions. Now, as a postdoctoral research fellow, I hope to continue this work by understanding the molecular strategies that different beneficial microbes trigger in plants to provide them with nutrients and improve plant production through symbioses.
DPhil, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, EEAD-CSIC and University of Zaragoza, 2014.
MSc Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Zaragoza, 2008.
BSc Biochemistry [5yr; 3yr chemistry+ 2yr Biochemistry], University of Zaragoza, 2007.
Member, Society for Experimental Biology, Early Career Scientist
Member, SEB
Member, RSB
- Royle, Pamela, Achom, Mingkee, Wilkinson, Helen, Lagunas, Beatriz, Gifford, Miriam L., 2020. Symbiotic outcome modified by the diversification from 7 to over 700 nodule specific cysteine rich peptides. Genes, 11 (4)
- Lagunas, Beatriz, Achom, Mingkee, Bonyadi-Pour, Roxanna, Pardal , Alonso Javier, Richmond, Bethany L., Sergaki, Chrysi, Vázquez, Saúl, Schäfer, Patrick, Ott, Sascha, Hammond, John, Gifford, Miriam L., 2019. Regulation of resource partitioning coordinates nitrogen and rhizobiaresponses and autoregulation of nodulation in the legume Medicago truncatula. Molecular Plant, 12 (6), pp. 833-846
- Lagunas, Beatriz, Achom, Mingkee, Bonyadi-Pour, Roxanna, Pardal, Alonso J., Richmond, Bethany L., Sergaki, Chrysi, Vázquez, Saúl, Schäfer, Patrick, Ott, Sascha, Hammond, John, Gifford, Miriam L., 2019. Regulation of Resource Partitioning Coordinates Nitrogen and Rhizobia Responses and Autoregulation of Nodulation in Medicago truncatula. Molecular Plant Pathology, 12 (6), pp. 833-846
- Lagunas, Beatriz, Dodd, Ian C., Gifford, Miriam L., 2019. A ?nodemap' to sustainable maize roots : linking nitrogen and water uptake improvements. Journal of Experimental Botany, 70 (19), pp. 5036-5039
- Soria-García, Ángel, Rubio, Maria C., Lagunas, Beatriz, López-Gomollón, Sara, Lujan, María de los Ángeles, Díaz-Guerra, Raúl, Picorel, Rafael, Alfonso, Miguel, 2019. Tissue distribution and specific contribution of Arabidopsis FAD7 and FAD8 plastid desaturases to the JA- and ABA-mediated cold stress or defense responses. Plant and Cell Physiology, 60 (5), pp. 1025-1040
- Sergaki, Chrysi, Lagunas, Beatriz, Lidbury, Ian, Gifford, Miriam L., Schäfer, Patrick, 2018. Challenges and approaches in microbiome research : from fundamental to applied. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9
- Lagunas, B., Schäfer, Patrick, Gifford, Miriam L., 2015. Housing helpful invaders : the evolutionary and molecular architecture underlying plant root-mutualist microbe interactions. Journal of Experimental Botany, 66 (8), pp. 2177-2186
- Román, Ángela, Hernández, María L., Soria-García, Ángel, López-Gomollón, Sara, Lagunas, Beatriz, Picorel, Rafael, Martínez-Rivas, José Manuel, Alfonso, Miguel, 2015. Non-redundant contribution of the plastidial FAD8 ?-3 desaturase to glycerolipid unsaturation at different temperatures in arabidopsis. Molecular Plant - Microbe Interactions, 8 (11), pp. 1599-1611
- Lagunas, Beatriz, Román, Ángela, Andreu, Vanesa, Picorel, Rafael, Alfonso, Miguel, 2013. A temporal regulatory mechanism controls the different contribution of endoplasmic reticulum and plastidial ?-3 desaturases to trienoic fatty acid content during leaf development in soybean (Glycine max cv Volania). Phytochemistry, 95, pp. 158-167
- Roman, A., Andreu, V., Hernandez, M. L., Lagunas, B., Picorel, R., Martinez-Rivas, J. M., Alfonso, M., 2012. Contribution of the different omega-3 fatty acid desaturase genes to the cold response in soybean. Journal of Experimental Botany, 63 (13), pp. 4973-4982
- Andreu, V., Lagunas, B., Collados, R., Picorel, R., Alfonso, M., 2001. The GmFAD7 gene family from soybean : identification of novel genes and tissue-specific conformations of the FAD7 enzyme involved in desaturase activity. Journal of Experimental Botany, 61 (12), pp. 3371-3384
- Lagunas, Beatriz, Walker, Liam, Hussain, Rana Muhammad Fraz, Hands-Portman, Ian, Woolley-Allen, Kate, Gifford, Miriam L., 2018. Histological profiling over time to optimize root cell type-specific reporter lines for cell sorting. In Ristova D., Barbez E. (ed.), Root Development, New York, NY, Humana Press, pp. 165-175