Welcome to the Gutiérrez Lab
Our main goal is to understand how plants sense and respond to nutrients. And in particular, how nutrient signals interact with other signaling pathways to coordinate global gene expression in plants.
We are currently taking a systems biology approach (Gutiérrez, 2012, Gutiérrez et al., 2005) to understand how nitrogen-induced responses are coordinated with other processes in the plant to coordinate growth and development in a changing environment.
Our research has both basic and applied significance. Understanding how plants respond to nutrients and how this regulation is integrated with other processes is essential to devise strategies for the improvement of agronomical traits.
Funding Sources
Millennium Science Initiative
FONDAP CONICYT