Ramón Suárez

TL;DR: It has been discovered that this sugar plays an important role in plant-microorganism interactions and also appears to be involved in the regulation of carbon metabolism and photosynthesis.

TL;DR: In this article, a new strategy to increase drought tolerance and yield in legumes by overexpressing trehalose-6-phosphate synthase in the symbiotic bacterium Rhizobium etli was proposed.

TL;DR: These results demonstrate that engineering trehalose metabolism with a yeast TPS–TPP bifunctional enzyme confers multiple stress protection in plants, comprising a potential tool to improve stress-tolerance in crops.

TL;DR: In inoculation of maize plants with A. brasilense containing higher levels of trehalose confers drought tolerance and a significant increase in leaf and root biomass, opening the possibility that A. Brasilense modified with a chimeric tre Halose biosynthetic gene from yeast could increase the biomass, grain yield and stress tolerance in other relevant crops.

TL;DR: The first time that genetic engineering of trehalose metabolism is reported in alfalfa and demonstrates that it can improve multiple stress protection in this crop and represents a great potential for generating stress-tolerant crop plants for agriculture.