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Publications 1990-2000

  • Casaretto, J.A., Corcuera, L.J., Italo Serey y G.E. Zúñiga (1994). Size structure of tussocks of a population of Deschampsia antarctica Desv. in Robert Island, Maritime Antarctica. Serie Científica INACH 44:61-66.
  • Zúñiga, G.E., Alberdi, M., Fernández, J., Montiel, P, Corcuera, LJ (1994). Lipid content in leaves of Deschampsia antarctica Desv. from the Maritime Antarctic. Phytochemistry 37:669-672. pdf
  • Zúñiga, G.E., Alberdi, M. y Corcuera, L.J. (1996). Non structural carbohydrates in Deschampsia antarctica Desv. from South Shetland Islands, Maritime Antarctic. Environmental and Experimental Botany 36:393-399 pdf
  • Romero M, Casanova A, Iturra I, Reyes A, Montenegro G, Alberdi (1999). Leaf anatomy of Deschampsia antarctica (Poaceae) from the Maritime Antarctic and its plastic response to changes in the growth conditions Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 72: 411-425,1999 pdf
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Publications 2001-2005

  • Bravo, L.A., Ulloa, N., Zuñiga, G.E., Casanova, A., Corcuera, L.J., y Alberdi, M. (2001). Cold resistance in Antarctic angiosperms. Physiologia Plantarum 111: 55-65 pdf
  • Alberdi M., Bravo L.A., Gutiérrez A., Gidekel M., y Corcuera L.J. (2002) Minireview on Ecophysiology of antarctic vascular plants. Physiologia Plantarum 115:479-486 pdf
  • Reyes M.A., Corcuera L.J. y Cardemil L. 2003. Accumulation of HSP70 in Deschampsia antarctica Desv. Leaves under thermal stress. Antarctic Science 15: 345-352 pdf
  • Gidekel M., Destefano-Beltran L., Garcia, P., Mujica L., Leal P., Cuba M., Fuentes L., Bravo L.A., Corcuera L.J. Alberdi M., y Gutierrez A. 2003. Cold-acclimation responsive genes in Deschampsia antarctica Desv: identification and characterization of three novel genes. Extremophiles 7:459-469 pdf
  • Zúñiga-Feest A., Inostroza P., Vega, M., Bravo, LA y Corcuera, LJ. (2003). Enzyme activity and sugars in the grass Deschampsia antarctica. Antarctic Science 15: 483-491. pdf
  • Pérez-Torres E., Dinamarca, J., Bravo, L.A. y Corcuera, L.J. (2004). Responses of Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl. To high light and temperature. Polar Biology 27:183-189 pdf
  • Alberdi M., Bravo, L.A. y Corcuera L.J. (2004). Ecofisiologia de las Plantas Antárticas. En “Ecología Fisiológica en Plantas” H.M. Cabrera (Editor). Ediciones de la Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Cap. 16 pp 249-265 pdf
  • M Stressmann, S Kitao, M Griffith, C Moresoli, LA Bravo, AG Marangoni (2004). Calcium interacts with antifreeze proteins and chitinase from cold-acclimated winter rye.Plant physiology 135, 364-376
  • Olave-Concha N, Ruiz-Lara S, Muñoz X, Bravo LA y Corcuera LJ. (2004). Accumulation of dehydrin transcrips and proteins in response to abiotic stresses in Deschampsia antarctica. Antarctic Science 16: 175-184 pdf
  • Pérez-Torres E, García A, Dinamarca J, Alberdi M, Gutiérrez A,, Gidekel M, Ivanov A, Hüner NPA, Corcuera LJ y Bravo LA. (2004) Photoprotection and Antioxidants in Deschampsia antarctica Desv. Functional Plant Biology 31:731-741 pdf
  • Gianoli E, Patricia Inostroza P, Zúñiga-Feest A., Reyes-Díaz M., Cavieres L A., Bravo LA., and Corcuera L. J. (2004) Ecotypic differentiation in morphology and cold Resistance in populations of Colobanthus quitensis (Cariophyllaceae) from the Andes of Central Chile and Maritime Antarctic. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 36:484-489 pdf
  • Zúñiga-Feest A, Ort D, Gutierrez A, Gidekel M, Bravo LA y Corcuera LJ. (2005) Light regulation of sucrose-phosphate synthase activity in the grass Deschampsia antarctica. Photosynthesis Research 83:75-86 pdf
  • Bravo LA, Griffith M (2005). Characterization of antifreeze activity in Antarctic plants. Journal of experimental botany 56, 1189-
  • Olave-Concha N, Bravo LA, Ruiz-Lara S y Corcuera L J (2005) Differential accumulation of dehydrin-like proteins by dehydration, salt, osmotic and ABA treatments in Deschampsia antarctica Desv. Polar Biology 28:514-522. pdf
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Publications 2006-2010

  • Casanova-Katny MA, Bravo LA, Molina-Montenegro M, Corcuera LJ, Cavieres LA (2006). Photosynthetic performance of Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Baril. (Caryophyllaceae) in a high elevation site of the Andes of Central Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 79: 41-53 pdf
  • Perez-Torres E, Bascuñan L, Sierra A, Bravo LA, Corcuera LJ (2006) Robustness of activity of Calvin Cycle enzymes alter high Light and low temperature conditions in Antarctic vascular plants. Polar Biology 29:909-916, Doi: s00300-006-0131-8 pdf
  • Bascuñan-Godoy L, Uribe E, Zúñiga-Feest A, Corcuera LJ, Bravo LA (2006) Low temperature regulates sucrose-phosphate synthase activity in Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl. By decreasing its sensitivity to Pi and increased activation by glucose-6-phosphate. Polar Biology 29:1011-1017 Doi: 10.1007/s00300-006-0144-3 pdf
  • Pérez-Torres E, Bravo LA, Corcuera LJ, Johnson GN (2007)Is electron transport to oxygen an important mechanism in photoprotection? Contrasting responses from Antarctic vascular plants. Physiologia Plantarum 130:185:194 pdf
  • Sierra-Almeida A, Casanova-Katny, Bravo LA, Corcuera LJ, Cavieres LA (2007). Photosynthetic responses to temperatura and Light in Antarctic and Andean populations of Colobanthus quitensis (Caryophyllaceae). Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 80:335-343 pdf
  • Bravo LA, Saavedra-Mella FA, Vera F, Guerra A, Cavieres LA Ivanov AG, Hüner NPA Corcuera LJ (2007) Effect of cold acclimation on the photosynthetic performance of two ecotypes of Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl. Journal of Experimental Botany 58:3581-3590 pdf
  • Bravo LA, Bascuñán-Godoy L, Pérez-Torres E, Corcuera LJ. (2009) Cold Hardiness in Antarctic Vascular Plants. En Plant Cold Hardiness: From the Laboratory to the Field. Gusta L, Wisnewski M. and Tanino K. (eds.) Capítulo 20 pp 198-213 CAB Intenational, UK.
  • Zúñiga-Feest A, Bascuñán L, Reyes-Diaz M, Bravo LA , Corcuera LJ (2009) Is survival after ice encasement related with organ sugar distribution in the Antarctic plants Deschampsia antarctica Desv. (Poaceae) and Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl. (Caryophyllaceae)? Polar Biology 32:583-591. pdf
  • J Sánchez-Venegas, A Navarrete, J Dinamarca, Bravo L, A Moraga, M Gidekel (2009). Cloning and constitutive expression of Deschampsia antarctica Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase in Pichia pastoris. BMC research notes 2, 207 2009
  • Bascuñán-Godoy L, García-Plazaola JI, Bravo LA, Corcuera LJ (2010). Leaf functional and micro-morphological photoprotective attributes in two ecotypes of Colobanthus quitensis from the Andes and Maritime Antarctic. Polar Biology 33: 885-896. DOI 10.1007/s00300-010-0765-4 pdf
  • Casanova-Katny MA, Zúñiga GE, Corcuera LJ, BravoLA, Alberdi M, (2010). Deschampsia antarctica Desv. primary photochemistry performs differently in plants grown in the field and laboratory. Polar Biol (2010) 33:477–483. DOI 10.1007/s00300-009-0723-1 pdf
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Publications 2011-2013

  • Bascuñán-Godoy L, Sanhueza C, Cuba M, Zúñiga G, Corcuera LJ, Bravo, LA (2012). Cold-acclimation limits low temperature induced photoinhibition by promoting a higher photochemical quantum yield and a more effective PSII restoration in darkness in the Antarctic rather than the Andean ecotype of Colobanthus quitensis Kunt Bartl (Cariophyllaceae). BMC Plant Biology 12:114 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-12-114 pdf
  • Navarrete AA, Bravo LA, Molina-Montenegro MA, Corcuera LJ (2012) Respuestas antioxidantes en dos ecotipos de Colobanthus quitensis (Caryophyllaceae) expuestos a alta radiación UV-B y baja temperatura Antioxidant responses in two Colobanthus quitensis (Caryophyllaceae) ecotypes exposed to high UV-B radiation and low temperatura. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 85: 419-433 pdf
  • Molina-Montenegro MA, Corcuera LJ (2012). The conquest of the South Pole: Importance and lessons for the present. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 85:365-367.
  • De la Iglesia, R. and Trefault, N. (2012) Marine photosynthetic eukaryotes in polar systems: unveiling phytoplankton diversity and composition in Antarctic waters. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. 85: 435-443. pdf
  • Casanova-Katny, A. & L.A. Cavieres (2012) Antarctic moss carpets facilitate growth of Deschampsia antarctica, but not its survival. Polar Biology 35: 1869-1878. pdf
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Other publications and scientific meetings presentations

Outreach publications

Alberdi M., Corcuera LJ (1997). Las plantas de la antártica en invierno se protegen bajo un iglú. Revista Creces (Marzo, 1997).  pdf

 

 

Conferences, Symposia & Posters

2013

1. Ecophysiological characteristics of the Antarctic vascular plants: certainties, uncertainties and implications for consequences of climate change. Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Carolina E. Sanhueza, Patricia L. Sáez, León A. Bravo. VIII Latinoamerican Congress of Antarctic Science, La Serena, Chile (Sept 2013).

2. Microclimatic changes induced by OTC and their consequences on Antarctic growth plants. Patricia L. Sáez, Carolina E. Sanhueza, Luis J. Corcuera, Lohengrin Cavieres, Ángela Sierra-Almeida, Carla A. Alvear, León A. Bravo. Poster Presentation at VIII Latinoamerican Congress of Antarctic Science, La Serena, Chile (Sept 2013).

3. Morphophysiological changes in Colobanthus quitensis populations along an antarctic-patagonian latitudinal gradient. Carolina E. Sanhueza, Patricia L. Sáez Ricardo Venegas, Luis J. Corcuera, Lohengrin Cavieres, Ángela Sierra-Almeida, León A. Bravo. Poster Presentation at VIII Latinoamerican Congress of Antarctic Science, La Serena, Chile (Sept 2013).

4. Ecofisiología de plantas antárticas: un nuevo portal web (Ecophysiology of Antarctic Plants: a new web page). Corcuera L.J. , Patricia Sáez, Bravo L.A.. Oral Presentation at VIII Latinoamerican Congress of Antarctic Science, La Serena, Chile (Sept 2013).

5. Low Temperature Physiological Adaptations of Antarctic Vascular Plants: How they will cope with global warming? León A. Bravo (Invited Speaker) University of Florida (Sept 2013).

6. Responses of photosystem II of Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis to different sources and doses of nitrogen. Claudia Rabert, Marjorie Reyes, Carla A. Alvear, Mario Díaz, Miren Alberdi, León A. Bravo. Feria de Investigación, Universidad de La Frontera. Temuco-Chile. (October 2013)

7. Effects of temperature on seed germination in Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl. Valentina Vallejos, Patricia Sáez, Lohengrin Cavieres, León Bravo. XXIV Reunión Anual de Botánica, Talca, Chile (Nov, 2013).

8. Visualization of heterogeneuos photochemical efficiency of photosystem II as a response to nitrogen availability in Colobanthus quitensis using imaging fluorescence. Claudia Mella, Claudia Rabert, Mario Díaz, Marjorie Reyes, Miren Alberdi, León Bravo. (Diciembre 2013).

9. Physiological and productive responses mediated by nitrogen availability in Colobanthus quitensis and Deschampsia antarctica evaluated in glasshouse. Claudia Rabert, Mario Díaz, Claudia Mella, Carla Alvear, Miren Alberdi, Marjorie Reyes, León Bravo. VIII Reunión de Biología Vegetal, Pucón, Chile (Dec 2013).

10. Ecophysiological responses of antarctic plants against the in situ temperature increase. Patricia Sáez, León Bravo, Carla Alvear, Carolina Sanhueza, Ángela Sierra-Almeida, Claudia Reyes, Lohengrin Cavieres. VIII Reunión de Biología Vegetal. Pucón, Chile (Dec, 2013).

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