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  1. Balancing Osmotic Protection and Oxidative Stress: Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Pot Marigold (Calendula officinalis L.) Plants to Water Stress

    Article • Plants, December 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  2. Halotolerant Mycorrhizal Symbiosis Enhances Tolerance in Limonium Species Under Long-Term Salinity

    Article • Genes, September 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  3. Nutrient dynamics in the berry, bean, and husk of six Coffea canephora genotypes throughout fruit maturation

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  4. Using Saline Water for Sustainable Floriculture: Identifying Physiological Thresholds and Floral Performance in Eight Asteraceae Species

    Article • Agronomy, July 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  5. Stress resilience in Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora under harsh drought and/or heat conditions: selected genes, proteins, and lipid integrated responses

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, July 2025, Frontiers

    Dr Isabel Marques

  6. Organellar data sets confirm overall angiosperm relationships if problematic RNA-edit sites are accounted for in mitochondrial genomes

    Article • June 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Isabel Marques

  7. Herbariomic approach solved identity crisis of the putatively extinct Armeria arcuata Welw. ex Boiss. & Reut. (Plumbaginaceae)

    Article • Annals of Botany, April 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Isabel Marques

  8. Correction: Guzman, M.R.; Marques, I. Effect of Varied Salinity on Marigold Flowers: Reduced Size and Quantity Despite Enhanced Antioxidant Activity. Agronomy 2023, 13, 3076

    Article • Agronomy, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  9. Genetic Diversity of Ishpingo Exploited Trees (Ocotea quixos (Lam.) Kosterm, Lauraceae)

    Article • December 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  10. Irradiance level and elevation shape the soil microbiome communities of Coffea arabica L.

    Article • Environmental Microbiome, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  11. Transcriptomic Analyses Reveal That Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora Have More Complex Responses under Combined Heat and Drought than under Individual Stressors

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  12. The Complex Genetic Legacy of Hybridization and Introgression between the Rare Ocotea loxensis van der Werff and the Widespread O. infrafoveolata van der Werff (Lauraceae)

    Article • Plants, July 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  13. Molecular Insight of Plants Response to Drought Stress: Perspectives and New Insights towards Food Security

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  14. Editorial: Women in conservation and restoration ecology 2022

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, April 2024, Frontiers

    Dr Isabel Marques

  15. Uncovering the wide protective responses in Coffea spp. leaves to single and superimposed exposure of warming and severe water deficit

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, January 2024, Frontiers

    Dr Isabel Marques

  16. Current advances in Coffea transcriptomic responses to abiotic stresses

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Isabel Marques

  17. Ecophysiological responses of coffee plants to heat and drought, intrinsic resilience and the mitigation effects of elevated air [CO2] in a context of climate changes

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Isabel Marques

  18. Effect of Varied Salinity on Marigold Flowers: Reduced Size and Quantity Despite Enhanced Antioxidant Activity

    Article • Agronomy, December 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  19. Divergent Impacts of Moderate and Severe Drought on the Antioxidant Response of Calendula officinalis L. Leaves and Flowers

    Article • December 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  20. Haplotype diversity patterns in Quercus suber (Fagaceae) inferred from cpDNA sequence data

    Article • Plant Systematics and Evolution, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  21. Effects of Salinity on Edible Marigold Flowers (Tagetes patula L.)

    Article • November 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  22. Plant Responses to Climate Change

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, November 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  23. Genetic diversity and structure in two epiphytic orchids from the montane forests of southern Ecuador: The role of overcollection on Masdevallia rosea in comparison with the widespread Pleurothallis lilijae

    Article • PLOS One, September 2023, PLOS

    Dr Isabel Marques

  24. Can saline preconditioning enhance plant survival in degraded soils? Physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses in Casuarina glauca saplings

    Article • Plant Ecology, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  25. Genetic and morphological diversity in populations of Annona senegalensis Pers. occurring in Western (Benin) and Southern (Mozambique) Africa

    Article • PeerJ, August 2023, PeerJ

    Dr Isabel Marques

  26. Genomic Evaluation of Coffea arabica and Its Wild Relative Coffea racemosa in Mozambique: Settling Resilience Keys for the Coffee Crop in the Context of Climate Change

    Article • Plants, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  27. Ovule Transcriptome Analysis Discloses Deregulation of Genes and Pathways in Sexual and Apomictic Limonium Species (Plumbaginaceae)

    Article • Genes, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  28. Impact of climate changes in the suitable areas for Coffea arabica L. production in Mozambique: Agroforestry as an alternative management system to strengthen crop sustainability

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Isabel Marques

  29. Overexpression of Water-Responsive Genes Promoted by Elevated CO2 Reduces ROS and Enhances Drought Tolerance in Coffea Species

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  30. Correction: A first look at sea-lavenders genomics – can genome wide SNP information tip the scales of controversy in the Limonium vulgare species complex?

    Article • BMC Plant Biology, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  31. A first look at sea-lavenders genomics – can genome wide SNP information tip the scales of controversy in the Limonium vulgare species complex?

    Article • BMC Plant Biology, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  32. Untapping the Potential of Neglected and Underutilized Species to Improve Food Security

    Article • Agronomy, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  33. Early Signs of the Effects of Forest Fragmentation on the Genetic Diversity and Structure of the Threatened Ecuadorian Tree Ocotea rotundata (Lauraceae)

    Article • Forests, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  34. Genetic Diversity of the Endemic and Threatened Ecuadorian Tree, Ocotea rotundata s.l. (Lauraceae)

    Article • November 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  35. Linking Bacterial Rhizosphere Communities of Two Pioneer Species, Brachystegia boehmii and B. spiciformis, to the Ecological Processes of Miombo Woodlands

    Article • Forests, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  36. Salt Stress Tolerance in Casuarina glauca: Insights from the Branchlets Transcriptome

    Article • Plants, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  37. Shade and Altitude Implications on the Physical and Chemical Attributes of Green Coffee Beans from Gorongosa Mountain, Mozambique

    Article • Agronomy, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  38. Protective Responses at the Biochemical and Molecular Level Differ between a Coffea arabica L. Hybrid and Its Parental Genotypes to Supra-Optimal Temperatures and Elevated Air [CO2]

    Article • Plants, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  39. High-resolution shotgun proteomics reveals that increased air [CO2] amplifies the acclimation response of Coffea species to drought regarding antioxidative, energy, sugar, and lipid dynamics

    Article • Journal of Plant Physiology, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Isabel Marques

  40. Editorial: Overcoming the Global Climate Crisis: Solutions to Minimize the Loss of Mediterranean Plants

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, July 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Isabel Marques

  41. Editorial: Tropical Plant Responses to Climate Change

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  42. Next-Generation Proteomics Reveals a Greater Antioxidative Response to Drought in Coffea arabica Than in Coffea canephora

    Article • Agronomy, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  43. Current Challenges and Genomic Advances Towards the Development Resilient Coffee Genotypes to Abiotic Stresses

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  44. Understanding the Impact of Drought in Coffea Genotypes: Transcriptomic Analysis Supports a Common High Resilience to Moderate Water Deficit but a Genotype Dependent Sensitivity to Severe Water Deficit

    Article • Agronomy, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  45. Pollination in the Rainforest: Scarce Visitors and Low Effective Pollinators Limit the Fruiting Success of Tropical Orchids

    Article • Insects, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  46. The Nexus between Fire and Soil Bacterial Diversity in the African Miombo Woodlands of Niassa Special Reserve, Mozambique

    Article • Microorganisms, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  47. Primary Metabolite Profile Changes in Coffea spp. Promoted by Single and Combined Exposure to Drought and Elevated CO2 Concentration

    Article • Metabolites, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  48. Diversity of Leaf Stomatal Traits among Coffea canephora Pierre ex A. Froehner Genotypes

    Article • Agronomy, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  49. Diversity of Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] Landraces in Mozambique: New Opportunities for Crop Improvement and Future Breeding Programs

    Article • Agronomy, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  50. Demystifying Negative Connotations of Hybridization for Less Biased Conservation Policies

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, May 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Isabel Marques

  51. Discordant Phylogenomic Placement of Hydnoraceae and Lactoridaceae Within Piperales Using Data From All Three Genomes

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, April 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Isabel Marques

  52. A Transcriptomic Approach to Understanding the Combined Impacts of Supra-Optimal Temperatures and CO2 Revealed Different Responses in the Polyploid Coffea arabica and Its Diploid Progenitor C. canephora

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  53. Using gradient Forest to predict climate response and adaptation in Cork oak

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, February 2021, Wiley

    Cristina Branquinho, Dr Isabel Marques

  54. Transcriptomic Leaf Profiling Reveals Differential Responses of the Two Most Traded Coffee Species to Elevated [CO2]

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  55. Genetic Diversity among Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) Landraces Suggests Central Mozambique as an Important Hotspot of Variation

    Article • Agronomy, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  56. Intrinsic non-stomatal resilience to drought of the photosynthetic apparatus in Coffea spp. is strengthened by elevated air [CO2]

    Article • Tree Physiology, November 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Isabel Marques

  57. The genetic legacy of fragmentation and overexploitation in the threatened medicinal African pepper-bark tree, Warburgia salutaris

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  58. Mining the Microbiome of Key Species from African Savanna Woodlands: Potential for Soil Health Improvement and Plant Growth Promotion

    Article • Microorganisms, August 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  59. Resilient and Sensitive Key Points of the Photosynthetic Machinery of Coffea spp. to the Single and Superimposed Exposure to Severe Drought and Heat Stresses

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, July 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Isabel Marques

  60. Rice Biofortification With Zinc and Selenium: A Transcriptomic Approach to Understand Mineral Accumulation in Flag Leaves

    Article • Frontiers in Genetics, July 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Isabel Marques

  61. Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Nodulated and Non-Nodulated Casuarina glauca Sieb. ex Spreng. Grown under Salinity Conditions Using Sequential Window Acquisition of All Theoretical Mass Spectra (SWATH-MS)

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, December 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Isabel Marques

  62. Multiple founder events explain the genetic diversity and structure of the model allopolyploid grass Brachypodium hybridum in the Iberian Peninsula hotspot

    Article • Annals of Botany, October 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Isabel Marques

  63. Species distribution models with field validation, a key approach for successful selection of receptor sites in conservation translocations

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Isabel Marques

  64. Cryptic species in an ancient flowering‐plant lineage (Hydatellaceae, Nymphaeales) revealed by molecular and micromorphological data

    Article • Taxon, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Isabel Marques

  65. Reproductive isolation between Salvia elegans and S. fulgens , two hummingbird-pollinated sympatric sages

    Article • Plant Biology, August 2018, Wiley

    Dr Isabel Marques

  66. Frequency of plant hybridization and polyploidy in the Mediterranean basin.

    Article • Plant Biology, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Isabel Marques, Dr João Loureiro

  67. A three‐genome five‐gene comprehensive phylogeny of the bulbous genus Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae) challenges current classifications and reveals multiple hybridization events

    Article • Taxon, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr Isabel Marques

  68. De biología de sistemas, genómica funcional y procesos genómicos

    Article • August 2017, Sociedad Espanola de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular (SEBBM)

    Dr Isabel Marques

  69. Environmental isolation explains Iberian genetic diversity in the highly homozygous model grass Brachypodium distachyon

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  70. Is homoploid hybrid speciation that rare? An empiricist’s view

    Article • Heredity, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  71. Effects of climate change on threatened Spanish medicinal and aromatic species: predicting future trends and defining conservation guidelines

    Article • Israel Journal of Plant Sciences, December 2016, Brill

    Dr Isabel Marques

  72. Past climate changes facilitated homoploid speciation in three mountain spiny fescues (Festuca, Poaceae)

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  73. Genetic structure and diversity of the selfing model grassBrachypodium stacei(Poaceae) in Western Mediterranean: out of the Iberian Peninsula and into the islands

    Article • PeerJ, September 2016, PeerJ

    Dr Isabel Marques

  74. Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of the monocot order Liliales: out of Australia and through Antarctica

    Article • Cladistics, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Isabel Marques

  75. Convergent recruitment of new pollinators is triggered by independent hybridization events in Narcissus

    Article • New Phytologist, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Isabel Marques

  76. Transcriptome-derived evidence supports recent polyploidization and a major phylogeographic division inTrithuria submersa(Hydatellaceae, Nymphaeales)

    Article • New Phytologist, November 2015, Wiley

    Dr Isabel Marques

  77. Better common than rare? Effects of low reproductive success, scarce pollinator visits and interspecific gene flow in threatened and common species ofTibouchina(Melastomataceae)

    Article • Plant Species Biology, October 2015, Wiley

    Dr Isabel Marques

  78. Acquiring baseline information for successful plant translocations when there is no time to lose: the case of the neglected Critically Endangered Narcissus cavanillesii (Amaryllidaceae)

    Article • Plant Ecology, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  79. Bury botany's outdated image

    Article • Nature, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  80. Both biotic and abiotic factors influence floral longevity in three species ofEpidendrum(Orchidaceae)

    Article • Plant Species Biology, April 2014, Wiley

    Dr Isabel Marques

  81. Costs and benefits of the mixed-mating system of Narcissus serotinus (Amaryllidaceae) in the conservation of small fragmented populations

    Article • Botany, February 2014, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Isabel Marques

  82. Multiple hybridization events, polyploidy and low postmating isolation entangle the evolution of neotropical species of Epidendrum (Orchidaceae)

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  83. Morphometric and molecular variation in concert: taxonomy and genetics of the reticulate Pyrenean and Iberian alpine spiny fescues (Festuca eskiacomplex, Poaceae)

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, November 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Isabel Marques

  84. Outcomes of Extensive Hybridization and Introgression in Epidendrum (Orchidaceae): Can We Rely on Species Boundaries?

    Article • PLOS One, November 2013, PLOS

    Dr Isabel Marques, Dr João Loureiro

  85. Seed germination and longevity of autumn-flowering and autumn-seed producing Mediterranean geophytes

    Article • Seed Science Research, September 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Isabel Marques

  86. Pollination activity affects selection on floral longevity in the autumnal-flowering plant, Narcissus serotinus L.

    Article • Botany, April 2012, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Isabel Marques

  87. Spatial–temporal patterns of flowering asynchrony and pollinator fidelity in hybridizing species of Narcissus

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isabel Marques

  88. Genome size and base composition variation in natural and experimental Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae) hybrids

    Article • Annals of Botany, November 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Isabel Marques

  89. Fitness in Narcissus hybrids: low fertility is overcome by early hybrid vigour, absence of exogenous selection and high bulb propagation

    Article • Journal of Ecology, August 2011, Wiley

    Dr Isabel Marques

  90. Decoupling of reproduction and growth: an unusual pattern in the life cycle of the Mediterranean geophyte Narcissus serotinus

    Article • Plant Species Biology, May 2011, Wiley

    Dr Isabel Marques

  91. Rumex palustris Sm. (Polygonaceae), nueva especie para la flora de Portugal. Rumex palustris Sm. (Polygonaceae), a new species for the Portuguese flora

    Article • Acta Botanica Malacitana, December 2010, Malaga University

    Dr Isabel Marques

  92. UNRAVELING CRYPTIC RETICULATE RELATIONSHIPS AND THE ORIGIN OF ORPHAN HYBRID DISJUNCT POPULATIONS INNARCISSUS

    Article • Evolution, April 2010, Wiley

    Dr Isabel Marques

  93. Pollination patterns limit hybridization between two sympatric species of Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae)

    Article • American Journal of Botany, August 2007, Botanical Society of America

    Dr Isabel Marques

  94. Narcissus

    Article • December 1990, De Gruyter

    Dr Isabel Marques