Division of Applied Plant Nutrition

Dr. Paulo Cabrita

Research interests

  • plant physiology
  • remote sensing
  • transport processes in plants
  • plant water relations
  • water-use efficiency

CV

Since 08/2018 Postdoctoral Research Associate at IAPN – Institute of Applied Plant Nutrition, Georg August University of Göttingen
07/2014 – 11/2016 Agronomist – Remote sensing at Spatial Business Integration GmbH, Darmstadt
08/2011 Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from the Faculty 08 - Biology and Chemistry of the Justus Liebig University Giessen, with the thesis “Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Phloem Transport with the Inclusion of Lateral Solute Exchanges and Apoplastic Conditions”
08/2006 – 12/2010 Research Associate (Ph.D. Student) at Institute for Bio- and Geosciences (IBG 2): Plant Sciences Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich
10/2005 M.Sc. in Experimental Physics from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Portugal, with the thesis in plant biochemistry “Anion Transport Studies on Plant Mitochondria: Succinate Transport through PIMAC”
09/1998 – 08/2005 Teaching Assistant in Physics at the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
09/1996 – 08/1998 Teacher at Tavira High School, Tavira, Portugal
07/1996 Licentiate in Physics from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Publications

peer reviewed

2020

Cabrita, P. (2020) Holocrine secretion and kino flow in angiosperms: their role and physiological advantages in plant defence mechanisms. Trees; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-020-01990-z.

2019

Cabrita, P. (2019) A model for resin flow. In: Ramawat, K., Ekiert, H., Goyal, S. (eds) Plant Cell and Tissue Differentiation and Secondary Metabolites, Reference Series in Phytochemistry, Springer, Cham, Switzerland; https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-11253-0_5-1.

2018

Cabrita, P. (2018) Resin flow in conifers. Journal of Theoretical Biology,453, 48-57; https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.05.020.

2013

Cabrita, P., Thorpe. M., Huber, G. J. (2013) Hydrodynamics of steady state phloem transport with radial leakage of solute. Front. Plant Sci., 4, 531; https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2013.00531.

Other Publications

Cabrita, P. (2019) Holocrine secretion and kino flow in angiosperms: their role and physiological advantages in plant defence mechanisms. arXiv:1902.09308 [q-bio.TO].

Cabrita, P. (2011) Experimental and theoretical studies of phloem transport with the inclusion of lateral solute exchange and apoplastic conditions, Dissertation, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany; http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2012/8566/2019.