Hurtado Cervera, Carlos (Date of defense: 2017-07-14)
Water scarcity is an issue of global concern due to the increase of the population and the climate change, which both increase the water demand. Many arid and semiarid countries are facing high water ...
Pedescoll Albacar, Anna (Date of defense: 2010-11-04)
Constructed wetlands are alternative systems to conventional wastewater treatment for small communities (up to 2000 PE). This is mainly due to that operation and maintenance costs are reduced. Despite ...
Llop Casamada, Jordi (Date of defense: 2017-07-20)
Vegetable production in greenhouses is an important and productive economic activity for agricultural businesses in Southern Europe. One of the most risky factors affecting this activity is the use of ...
Lupala, Cecylia Severin (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)
GPCR are integral membrane receptor proteins that are characterized by heptahelical transmembrane domains connected by intracellular and extracellular loops. GPCRs are an attractive class of proteins ...
Caselles Osorio, Aracelly (Date of defense: 2007-01-12)
Los sistemas de humedales construidos de flujo subsuperficial horizontal (HCFSS) constituyen una tecnología válida para la depuración de aguas residuales urbanas. Uno de los principales objetivos de ...
Moreno Moreno, Fabián Leonardo (Date of defense: 2014-11-05)
Coffee is the most traded food in the world. The coffee industry has a great economic and social relevance worldwide. The sensory and functional properties of the product are highly important for the ...
Expósito Creo, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2021-02-05)
Plant resistance through grafting susceptible scions onto resistant rootstocks is an effective measure to supress root-knot nematode (RKN) populations and to reduce crop yield losses. However, the ...
Ghahremani, Zahra (Date of defense: 2020-07-27)
Root-knot nematodes (RKN), Meloidogyne spp., are the most economically important genus of plant parasitic nematodes that cause considerable damage and yield losses of horticultural crops worldwide. RKN ...
Portell Canal, Xavier (Date of defense: 2014-12-09)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the yeasts with major economic, social, and health significance in human culture. Depending on the growth conditions experienced by the cell, S. cerevisiae growth can ...
Rasaeifar, Bahareh (Date of defense: 2020-12-10)
G-protein coupled receptors represents the largest family of membrane protein in eukaryotes cells with more than 800 members. The reason of their importance lies in their function, being responsible for ...