Mechanisms of adaptation to abiotic stress in plants

Our work is focused on the study of the role of the fibrillins (FBNs) in the protection of photosystems against abiotic stresses. FBNs are a family of chloroplastic proteins of unknown function. Some of these proteins are localized in the plastoglobules (PGs, lipo-protein bodies originated from thylakoid membranes and that remain attached to them). We aim to determine the function of those FBNs associated to PGs in different metabolic processes in the chloroplast, and specially in the defense of the photosystems against light and chilling stresses.