UPDATE January, 2019.
(Spanish) Esta página esta criando telarañas desde hace un tiempo, todo lo contrario que mi trabajo como investigador. Trabajo en un departamento de Excelencia del CSIC, el Departamento de Riegos del CEBAS, y dentro de éste en el grupo de Agua y Cultivos. Somos un grupo con gente muy diversa en cuanto a bagaje profesional. Por fin tengo un proyecto propio, gracias a la Fundación Séneca de la Región de Murcia, trataré de hacer más eficiente la fertilización nitrogenada en lechuga cuando el agua para riego es salina o es escasa. Llevo unos 4 años aquí, trabajando en diversos proyectos, en un montón de cultivos y en colaboración con empresas, universidades, otros centros de investigación y con agricultores. El trato con los agricultures ha sido lo más duro (por mi naturaleza), pero al mismo tiempo lo más enriquecedor.
(Broken English) This page has been breeding cobwebs for some time now, quite the opposite of my work as a researcher. I work in a department of Excellence of the CSIC, the Department of Irrigation at the CEBAS, and within this, in the group of Water and Crops. We are a group with very diverse people in terms of professional background. After many years I have my own project, thanks to the Seneca Foundation of the Region of Murcia, I will try to make more efficient nitrogen fertilization in lettuce when the water for irrigation is saline or is scarce. I have been here for about 4 years, working in differents projects, in many crops, and in collaboration with companies, universities, other research centres and farmers. Dealing with farmers has been the hardest, but at the same time the most enriching.
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Welcome to my small part to help build up science
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1. BACKGROUND
2. RESEARCH
3. PUBLICATIONS
4. FUNDING
5. NOTES
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| En los Saladares del Valle del Guadalentin alucinando con la vegetación, Alhama de Murcia, Otoño 2012. |
FOCUSING on NITROGEN and AGRICULTURE
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| En mi taller. Uno de los sitios donde más feliz he sido trabajando. Bloom Lab. Davis, Ca. 2007 |
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| Foto de despedida tras una breve estancia en el laboratorio de Arnold Bloom, año 2005. Volvería aquí en 2007. No me acuerdo de los nombre de todos, pero todos me ayudaron (especialmente Martin Burger y Lesley Randall) e hicieron mi estancia en el laboratorio muy fácil. La chica morena de mi izquierda todavía me aguanta. |
1. BACKGROUND
1991-1995: Técnico especialista en explotaciones Agropecuarias. Lorca, Murcia, Spain.
1996-1998: Ingeniero Técnico Agrícola en Horticultura y Jardineria. Orihuela, Comunidad Valenciana. Spain.
1999-2001: Ingeniero Agrónomo. Orihuela, Comunidad Valenciana. Spain.
2002-2006: Ph.D. on Plant Nutrition: "Nutrients and water management in pepper plants (Capsicum annuum L.) under saline conditions". Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CEBAS-CSIC). Murcia. Spain.
2007-2010: Postdoctoral at UC Davis, Plant Sciences Department, Arnold. J. Bloom Lab.
2011-2014: Postdoctoral at CEBAS-CSIC. Biology of Stress and Plant Pathology Department, Enrique Olmos Lab.
2015-present. Researcher at CEBAS-CSIC. Irrigation Department. Diego S. Intrigliolo Team.
2. RESEARCH
My background as researcher is a cocktail of plant nutrition and plant physiology sciences, with experiments in the field, greenhouse, growth chambers and in the lab, plant species that include Rosemary, Henna, Wheat, Pepper, Tomato, and Arabidopsis, and key words that include fruit production, fruit quality, fertilization, salinity, drought, and climate change. I think such as mix is something unusual today, because as much you cover as less you tight or as WordReference say, "Jack of all trades, master of none". The good think is that I do not want to be master of none, and I firmly believe that I can take advantage of this mix to understand plants and what matter and what not, in order to perform the experiments I am working on.
Something quite stable during my career is that I have worked always with the whole plant to understanding how they respond to the environment. Now (and with a little of luck also in the future) I am working on the response of different plants to nitrogen dose and source (nitrate, ammonium and amino acids) with the goal of maximize sustainable productivity of agricultural system by increasing nitrogen use efficiency. Nitrogen, probably the best friend of plants, very often limits production and it is easily lost from agricultural systems to the surrounding environment where it becomes an economic loss to farmers that can degrade air and water quality. My work couples classical plant physiology approaches with modern cell biology tools thanks to the researcher team I am working with. We use a variety of experimental technicques, including growth experiments on control climate chambers, leaf gas exchange, biochemistry, microscopy, metabolite analysis, isotope discrimination and 15N labelling.
Something quite stable during my career is that I have worked always with the whole plant to understanding how they respond to the environment. Now (and with a little of luck also in the future) I am working on the response of different plants to nitrogen dose and source (nitrate, ammonium and amino acids) with the goal of maximize sustainable productivity of agricultural system by increasing nitrogen use efficiency. Nitrogen, probably the best friend of plants, very often limits production and it is easily lost from agricultural systems to the surrounding environment where it becomes an economic loss to farmers that can degrade air and water quality. My work couples classical plant physiology approaches with modern cell biology tools thanks to the researcher team I am working with. We use a variety of experimental technicques, including growth experiments on control climate chambers, leaf gas exchange, biochemistry, microscopy, metabolite analysis, isotope discrimination and 15N labelling.
3. PUBLICATIONS
(please contact Salvador for reprint request)
Rosmarinus officinalis and drought
- Nicolás E, Ferrández T, Rubio JS, Alarcón JJ, and MJ. Sánchez-Blanco. 2008. Annual water status, development, and flowering patterns for Rosmarinus officinalis plants under different irrigation conditions. HortScience 43, 1580-1585.
- Flores P, Navarro JM, Garrido C, Rubio JS, and V. Martinez. 2004. Influence of Ca2+, K+ and NO3- fertilisation on nutricional quality of pepper. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 84, 569-574.
- Del Amor FM and JS. Rubio. 2009. Effects of antitranspirant spray and K:Ca:Mg ratio on photosynthesis, nutrient and water uptake, and yield of sweet pepper. Journal of Plant Nutrition 32, 97-111.
- Rubio JS, García-Sánchez F, Flores P, Navarro JM, and V. Martínez. Yield and fruit quality of sweet pepper in response to fertilisation with Ca2+ and K+. Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research 8, 170-177.
- (*) Rubio JS, García-Sánchez F, Rubio F, and V. Martínez. 2009. Yield, blossom-end rot incidence, and fruit quality in pepper plants under moderate salinity are affected by K+ and Ca2+ fertilization. Scientia Horticulturae 119, 79-87.
- Marín A, Rubio JS, Martínez V, and MI. Gil. 2009. Antioxidant constituents in green and red peppers as affected by water supply, salinity and fertilizers. Journal of Agricultural and Food Science 89, 1352- 59.
- Rubio JS, García-Sánchez F, Rubio F, García AL, and V. Martínez. 2010. The importance of K+ in ameliorating the negative effects of salt stress on growth of pepper plants. European Journal of Horticultural Science 75, 33-41.
- (*) Rubio JS, Rubio F, Martínez V, and F. García-Sánchez. 2010. Irrigation strategies under salt stress conditions in pepper plants grown in coconut fiber. Agricultural Water Management 97, 1965-1702.
- Rubio F, Arévalo L, Caballero F, Botella MA, Rubio JS, García-Sánchez F, and V. Martínez. 2010. Systems involved in K+ uptake from diluted solutions in pepper plants as revealed by the use of specific inhibitors. Journal of Plant Physiology 167,1494-1499.
- Rubio JS, Pereira WE., Garcia-Sanchez F, Murillo L, Garcia AL, and V. Martínez. 2011. Irrigation management and training system in salinized pepper plants grown on coconut fiber. Horticultura Brasileira 29, 275-281.
Henna and Salinity
- Fernandez-Garcia, N., Olmos, E., Bardisi, E., Garcia-de la Garma, J, Lopez-Berenguer, C., Rubio-Asensio, JS. 2014. Intrinsic water use efficiency controls the adaptation to high salinity in a semi-arid adapted plant, henna (Lawsonia inermis L.). Journal of Plant Physiology 171, 64-75.
- Easlon HM, Rubio-Asensio, JS., St Clair DA, Bloom AJ. 2013.Chilling-induced water stress: variation in shoot turgor maintenance among wild tomato species from diverse habitats. American Journal of Botany 100, 1991-1999.
Climate change and nitrogen
- Bloom AJ, Burger M, Rubio-Asensio JS, and A. Cousins A. 2010. Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Inhibits Nitrate Assimilation in Wheat and Arabidopsis. Science 328, 899-903.
- Bloom AJ, Rubio-Asensio JS, Randall L, Rachmilevitch S, Cousins A, and EA. Carlisle. 2012. CO2 Enricment Inhibits Shoot Nitrate Assimilation in C3 but not C4 Plants and Slows Growth under Nitrate in C3 Plants. Ecology 93, 355-267.
(*) These two publised articles have been also published on regional journals accessible for the general public:
- Rubio JS, García-Sánchez F., García-Torrano AR, Arévalo Marín L y V. Martínez. 2006. Efecto de la nutrición con K+ y Ca2+ en el rendimiento e incidencia de podredumbre apical en plantas de pimiento sometidas a estrés salino moderado. Agrícola Vergel 296: 378-382.
- Rubio JS, García-Sánchez F, Rodriguez Ortega WM, Arévalo-Marín L, Rubio F, y V. Martínez. 2009. Manejo del riego en pimiento tipo California crecido en fibra de coco y regado con aguas de moderada salinidad. Agrícola Vergel 333: 509-515.
4. FUNDING
I am more that grateful to all the public institutions that had supported or support my research:
- I3P contract from the Spanish Researh Council (CSIC). 2002-2003.
- FPU fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education. 2004-2007.
- Postdoctoral fellowship from the Fundación Séneca, Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia. 2007-2008.
- Postdoctoral contract (Arnold Bloom's NSF project) from the University of California at Davis. 2009-2010.
- "Saavedra Fajardo" postdoctoral contract from the Fundación Séneca, Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia. 2011.
- "Juan de la Cierva" postdoctoral contract from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitivad. 2012-2014.
5. NOTES
"Earth, and not water, is the matter that constitutes vegetables" John Woodward
(Last update on Jan 9th, 2014)
