Brief CV
Surname: Ruiz
First Name: Oscar Adolfo
Nationality: Argentine. Passport Number: 12367607
Position title: Principal Researcher from Argentinean National Council of Sciences (CONICET)
and Professor in Biotechnology of San Martín National University (UNSAM)
Name of Institute: Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas-Instituto Tecnológico de
Chascomús (IIB-INTECH)
Full address of Institute: Camino de Circunvalación de la Laguna Km 5, Casilla de Correo 164
(B7130IWA). Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Tel:
++54-2241-424049 ext. 102
Fax:
++54-2241-424048
E-mail: [email protected] – [email protected] [email protected]
Fellowships:
• Academic Fellowship. Organic Chemistry Department. Faculty of Exacts and Natural Sciences.
University of North East. Argentina (UNNE). 1982.
• Graduated Fellowship. Phytochemistry. Organic Chemistry Department. Faculty of Pharmacy
and Biochemistry. University of Buenos Aires (UBA). 1985.
• Graduated Fellowship. Ministry of Education (Argentina). Oct. 1996-March 1997.
• Graduated Fellowship. Agency for International Cooperation (AECI) – Spain – Oct 1997-Dec
1998.
Others:
• Junior B. United Nations Development Programme (PNUD Arg. 86/028) INTECH. May198990.
• Semi-senior A. United Nations (PNUD Arg 86/028) INTECH. May 1990- Nov 1993.
• Professor invited Barcelona University 1999-2000.
• Professor invited Valencia University Nov 2004-May 2005.
• Professor UNESCO 2007.
- Grants awarded (last five years)
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2007-2010 ANPCYT PICT 2005-33397. A physiological and molecular contribution to
multidisciplinary study of saline stress tolerant of Lotus tenuis, strategic specie for
Argentinean development.
2008-2011 Full COST Action of European Economic Community (CEE). Signalling control of
stress tolerant and production of stress protective compounds in plants.
2008-2010 Interuniversity Cooperation (PCI) - AECI with University of Valencia (Spain).
Multidisciplinary evaluation of Lotus genus like academic, productive and ecological
alternative to Spain and Argentine.
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2008-2010 MINCYT (Argentine)-FCT (Portugal). Lotus genus and its use in bioremediation of
contaminated soils with heavy metals.
2008-2010 MINCYT (Argentina)-CONACYT (México). Evaluation of biochemical, physiological
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2008-2010 National University of General San Martin (UNSAM). Project: Induction of
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and molecular mechanisms of saline stress tolerance in Nopal and Lotus.
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Modifications in vegetal polyamine metabolism by entophytic bacteria and mycorrhizal
arbuscular fungi. Relation with plant responses to stress conditions.
2009-2012 PICT Start-ups ANPCYT. Obtaining of new commercial cultivars of Lotus sp and
their specific inoculants for the improvement of cow production.
2009-2012 PIP- CONICET-112-200801-00734. Influence of fungi and bacterial entophytic on
abiotic and biotic tolerance mediated by polyamine metabolism.
2009-2011 Cooperation CONICET-CNR (Italy). Understanding the molecular basis of
proanthocyanidins biosynthesis in Lotus spp. and role of these secondary metabolites on
plant stress response.
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2010-2014 PICT 08-1560. Evaluation of physiological, anatomical and molecular bases of
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Project: Lotus interspecific hybrids: a new item to breed new varieties and clone genes
involved in proanthocyanidin biosynthesis and salt tolerance in legumes. CNR (Italy)CONICET. (2011-13).
PIP 112-2011010098. Project: The metabolism of polyamines and condensed tannins as
criteria of improvement for the genus Lotus. (2012-15).
PICT Project 2011-1612: Further improvement of forage production of Pampa del Salado
from biotechnological evaluation of Lotus and its microbial symbionts (2012-15).
Project: Interspecific hybridization as a successful strategy to shed more lights into the
regulation of proanthocyanidin biosynthesis and breed superior Lotus Genotypes. CNR
(Italy)-CONICET. (2013-2015).
PICT 2014-3718 Project: Forage legumes in the Salado River Basin: integrated analysis of
soil microflora on its productivity and GHG mitigation potential. (2015-2019).
PICT START-UP 3648. Project: Lotus corniculatus x L. tenuis : commercial cultivars of
superior quality forage for livestock production in restrictive environments. (2015-2018).
Grant Collaboration between ANII (Uruguay) and CONICET (Argentina). Project: Evaluation
alkalinity tolerance of Lotus sp especially in forage L. tenuis.
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of the mechanisms involved in the stress tolerance for low temperatures in the Lotus
species. It´s relationship with the polyamine metabolism and with the homeostasis of ROS
and nitric oxide. (2015-2017).
- Publications (last 5 years only)
1. Genetic diversity and host range of rhizobia nodulating Lotus tenuis in typical soils of
the Salado River Basin (Argentina). María Julia Estrella, Socorro Muñoz, María José
Soto, Oscar A. Ruiz and Juan Sanjuán. (2009). Applied and Environmental
Microbiology. 75 (4). 1088-1098.
2. Polyamine oxidase activity contributes to sustain maize leaf elongation under saline
stress. (2009). Andrés Rodriguez; Santiago Maiale; Ana Menéndez and Oscar A Ruiz.
Journal of Experimental Botany. 60: 4249-4262.
3. Evaluation of a technical revegetation action performed on foredunes at the Valencian
Devesa de la Albufera, Valencia, Spain. Francisco Escaray, Francisco José Collado
Rosique, Agustina Azul Scambato, David Bilenca, Pedro M. Carrasco Sorlí, Antonio
Vizcaíno Matarredona, Oscar Adolfo Ruiz & Ana Bernardina Menéndez. Land
Degradation and Development. (2010) 21: (3). 239-247.
4. Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of Lotus tenuis and regeneration
of transgenic lines F. D. Espasandín, M. M. Collavino, C. V. Luna, R. C. Paz, J. R.
Tarragó, O. A. Ruiz, L. A. Mroginski and P. A. Sansberro. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ
Culture (2010) 102: 181-189.
5. Evaluation of sol-gel silica matrices as inoculant carriers for Mesorhizobium loti. G. S.
Alvarez, F. L. Pieckenstain, M. F. Desimone, M. J. Estrella,O. A. Ruiz, L. E. Diaz(2011)
in: “Current Research, Technology and Education Topics in Applied Microbiology and
Microbial Biotechnology”. Vol. 1 (pp. 1-788). Pag 160-167.
6. Transcriptome analysis of polyamine overproducers reveals activation of plant stress
responses and related signalling pathways. Marco F, Altabella, T, Alcázar R, Cuevas, J,
Bortolotti, C, González, E, Ruiz, O.A., Tiburcio AF, Carrasco P. (2010) in: “Omics and
Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance”. Bentham Science Publishers. USA. N. Tuteja (Ed.).
ISBN: 978-1-60805-058-1. Chapter 6. Pag. 82-90.
7. Comparative symbiotic performance of native rhizobia of the Flooding Pampa and
strains currently used for inoculating Lotus tenuis in this region Analía Inés Sannazzaro,
Verónica Mariel Bergottini, Rosalía Cristina Paz, Luis Nazareno Castagno, Ana
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Bernardina Menéndez, Oscar Adolfo Ruiz, Fernando Luis Pieckenstain and María Julia
Estrella (2011). Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Journal of Microbiology. 99:371-379.
8. Putrescine accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana transgenic lines enhances tolerance to
dehydration and freezing stress. (2011) Analía I. Alet, Diego H. Sanchez, Juan C.
Cuevas, Secundino del Valle, Teresa Altabella, Antonio F. Tiburcio, Francisco Marco,
Alejandro Ferrando,Fabiana D. Espasandín, María E. González, Pedro Carrasco and
Oscar A Ruiz. Plant Signalling and Behaviour. 6:2, 278-286.
9. Glomus intraradices improved salt tolerance in Prosopis alba seedlings by improving
water use efficiency and shoot water content. Scambato A., Echeverría M., Sansberro
P.,Ruiz O.A and Menéndez A. (2011). Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology. 22 (4): 285289.
10. Homeostatic control of polyamine levels under long-term salt stress in Arabidopsis.
Changes in Putrescine content do not alleviate ionic toxicity. Analía I. Alet, Diego H.
Sánchez, Alejandro Ferrando, Antonio Fernandez-Tiburcio, Ruben Alcazar, Juan Cruz
Cuevas, Teresa Altabella, Francisco Marco Pico; Pedro Carrasco-Sorlí, Ana B. Menéndez
and Oscar A. Ruiz. (2011) Plant Signalling and Behaviour. 6:2, 237-242.
11. Phosphate-solubilization mechanism and in vitro plant growth promotion activity
mediated by Pantoea eucalypti isolated from Lotus tenuis rhizosphere in the Salado
River Basin (Argentina). (2011). Luis Nazareno Castagno, María Julia Estrella, Analía
Inés Sannazzaro, Alicia Ester Grassanoand Oscar Adolfo Ruiz. Journal of Applied
Microbiology. 110 (5).1151-1165.
12. Polyamine catabolism is involved in response to salt stress in soybean hypocotyls.
Maria Paula Campestre, Cesar Daniel Bordenave, Andrea Cecilia Origone, Ana
Bernardina Menéndez, Oscar Adolfo Ruiz, Andrés Alberto Rodríguez, Santiago Javier
Maiale. (2011) Journal of Plant Physiology.168.1234-1240.
13. Perturbation of spermine synthase gene expression and transcript profiling provide new
insights on the role of the tetraamine spermine in Arabidopsis thaliana defense against
Pseudomonas viridiflava. María Elisa Gonzalez, Francisco Marco, Eugenio Gómez
Minguet, Pedro Carrasco-Sorli, Miguel Angel Blázquez,Juan Carbonell, Oscar Adolfo
Ruiz, and Fernando Luis Pieckenstain. (2011). Plant Physiology. 156: 2266-2277.
14. New insights into the role of spermine in Arabidopsis thaliana under long-term salt
stress. Analía I. Alet, Diego H. Sánchez, Juan C. Cueva, María Marina, Pedro Carrasco,
Teresa Altabella, Antonio F. Tiburcio and Oscar A. Ruiz. (2012). Plant Science. 182: 94100.
15. Ecological and agronomic importance of the plant genus Lotus. It’s application in
grassland sustainability and the amelioration of constrained and contaminated soils.
(2012). Francisco J Escaray, Andrés Gárriz,, María J Estrella, Fernando L. Pieckenstain,
Nazareno Castagno, Pedro Carrasco, Juan Sanjuán and Oscar A. Ruiz. Plant Science.
182: 121-133.
16. The proanthocyanidin content as a tool to differentiate between Lotus tenuis
and L. corniculatus individuals. (2012). Escaray, Francisco J; Rosato M.; Pieckenstain
F.L.; Menéndez A.B.; Roselló J.A.; Carrasco P. and Ruiz Oscar A Phytochemistry
Letters. 5: 37-40.
17. Comparative study of alkaline, saline and mixed Saline-Alkaline Stresses with regard to
their effects on growth, nutrient accumulation and root morphology of Lotus tenuis.
(2012) Paz, Rosalía C; Rocco, Rubén Anibal; Reinoso Herminda; Menéndez, Ana B.;
Pieckenstain, Luis F. and Ruiz, Oscar A. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. 31: 448459.
18. La importancia de los rizobios en Lotus tenuis. (2012). Rosalía Paz; Oscar A Ruiz y Julia
Estrella Paz. En: Lotus tenuis: un recurso forrajero estratégico para la ganadería de la
Pampa Deprimida del Salado. Ediciones INTA. Capítulo 3. 14-17.
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19. Polyamines contribution to the improvement of crop plants tolerance to abiotic stress.
(2012). Menéndez, Ana Bernardina; Rodriguez, Andrés Alberto; Maiale, Santiago
Javier; Rodriguez Kessler, Margarita; Jimenez Bremont, Juan Francisco and Ruiz. Oscar
Adolfo. IN: Crop Improvement under Adverse conditions. Ed. Tuteja and Gill. Springer,
NY, USA. 113-137.
20. Changes in the levels of jasmonates and free polyamines induced by Na2 SO4 and NaCl
in roots and leaves of the halophyte Prosopis strombulifera. (2012) Mariana A.
Reginato, Guillermina I. Abdala, Otto Miersch, Oscar A Ruiz, Elsa Moschetti and Virginia
Luna. BIOLOGIA. 67/4: 689-697.
21. A LOV Protein Modulates the Physiological Attributes of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv.
citri Relevant for Host Plant Colonization. (2012) Ivana Kraiselburd, Analía I. Alet, María
Laura Tondo, Silvana Petrocelli, Lucas D. Daurelio, Jesica Monzo, Oscar A. Ruiz, Aba
Losi and Elena G. Orellano. PLOS ONE. 7: 6. e38226.
22. Modulatory effects of Mesorhizobium tianshanense and Glomus intraradices on plant
proline and polyamine levels during early plant response of Lotus tenuis to salinity.
(2013). Mariela Echeverría, Analía Inés Sannazzaro, Oscar Adolfo Ruiz and Ana
Bernardina Menéndez. Plant and Soil. 364: 69-79.
23. Thermospermine
catabolism
increases
the
resistance
to Pseudomonas
viridiflava in Arabidopsis thaliana. (2013). Marina María., Vera Sirera Francisco, Rambla
José L., Gonzalez, María E., Blázquez Miguel A., Carbonell Juan, Pieckenstain Fernando
L. & Ruiz Oscar A.Journal Experimental Botany, 64(5): 1393-1402.
24. A succinate dehydrogenase flavoprotein subunit-like transcript is upregulated in Ilex
paraguariensis leaves in response to water deficit and Abscisic acid. (2013). Raúl M.
Acevedo, Santiago J. Maiale, Silvina C. Pessino, Rubén Bottini, Oscar A. Ruiz, Pedro A.
Sansberro. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 65: 48-54.
25. Defense responses in two Ecotypes of Lotus japonicus against Non-Pathogenic
Pseudomonas syringae. (2013) Cesar D. Bordenave, Francisco J. Escaray, Ana B.
Menendez, Eva Serna, Pedro Carrasco, Oscar A. Ruiz, Andrés Gárriz. PLOS ONE.
Volume 8. Issue 12. e83199.
26. Lotus tenuis x L. corniculatus interspecific hybridization as a means to breed bloat-safe
pastures and gain insight into the genetic control of proanthocyanidin biosynthesis in
legumes. (2014) Francisco J Escaray, Valentina Passeri, Florencia M Babuin, Francisco
Marco, Pedro Carrasco, Francesco Damiani, Fernando L Pieckenstain, Francesco
Paolocci and Oscar A Ruiz. BMC Plant Biology 2014, 14:40. 1-18.
27. Polyamines as indicators and as modulators in the abiotic stress in plants. (2014)
Calzadilla, Pablo Ignacio; Gázquez. Ayelén; Maiale, Santiago Javier; Ruiz, Oscar Adolfo
and Ana Bernardina Menéndez. En Plant adaptation to environmental change. Ed.: N.A.
Anjum; S.S.Gill and R. Gill. CAB International. Capítulo 7. Pag. 109-128.
28. Transcriptional regulation of 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid deoxygenase (NCED) gene by
putrescine accumulation positively modulates ABA synthesis and drought tolerance in
Lotus tenuis plants. (2014) Fabiana D. Espasandín, Santiago J. Maiale, Pablo Calzadilla,
Oscar A. Ruiz, Pedro A. Sansberro. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.76: 29-35.
29. Alkaline, saline and mixed saline-alkaline stresses induce physiological and morfoanatomical changes in Lotus tenuis shoots. (2014). Paz, Rosalía Cristina; Reinoso,
Herminda; Espasandín, Fabiana Daniela; González Antivilio, Francisco Alberto;
Sansberro, Pedro Adolfo; Rocco, Rubén Aníbal; Ruiz, Oscar Adolfo and Menéndez, Ana
Bernardina. Plant Biology. 16: 6. 1042-1049.
30. Identification of differentially expressed genes potentially involved in the tolerance of
Lotus tenuis to long-term alkaline stress. PAZ, ROSALÍA CRISTINA; ROCCO, RUBÉN
ANÍBAL; JIMENZ BREMONT, JUAN FRANCISCO; RODRIGUEZ KESSLER, MARGARITA;
BECERRA FLORA, ALICIA; MENÉNDEZ, ANA B; RUIZ, OSCAR A. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
AND BIOCHEMISTRY .Paris: ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES
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ELSEVIER. 2014 vol.82 n°. p279 - 288. issn 0981-9428.
31. Response to long-term NaHCO3-derived alkalinity in model Lotus japonicus ecotypes
Gifu B-129 and Miyakojima MG-20: Transcriptomic profiling and physiological. MARÍA
FLORENCIA BABUIN; MARÍA PAULA CAMPESTRE; RUBÉN ROCCO; CÉSAR BORDENAVE;
FRANCISCO JOSÉ ESCARAY; CRISTIAN ANTONELLI; PABLO CALZADILLA; ANDRÉS
GÁRRIZ; EVA SERNA; PEDRO CARRASCO SORLÍ; OSCAR A. RUIZ; ANA B. MENÉNDEZ.
PLOS ONE.San Francisco: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE. 2014 vol.9 n°. p97106 - 97107.
issn 1932-6203.
32. Growth, nutrient uptake and symbiosis with rhizobia and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
in Lotus tenuis plants fertilized with different phosphate sources and inoculated with
the phosphate-solubilizing bacterium Pantoea eucalypti M91. CASTAGNO L.N.; GARCÍA
I.V.; SANNAZZARO A.I.; BAILLERES M. A.; RUIZ O.A.; MENDOZA R.E.; ESTRELLA M.J..
PLANT AND SOIL. Berlin: SPRINGER. 2014 vol.385 n°. p357 - 371. issn 0032-079X.
33. Physiological response of multiple contrasting rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars to
suboptimal temperatures. GAZQUEZ, A.; MAIALE S.J.; RACHOSKI M.M.; VIDAL A.;
RUIZ O.A.; MENÉNDEZ A.B.; RODRIGUEZ A.A.. JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY AND CROP
SCIENCE. Londres: WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC. 2015 vol.2 n°. p117 - 127.
issn 0931-2250.
34. Effect of actinobacteria on Lotus tenuis - Mesorhizobium loti symbiosis: preliminary
study. SYMBIOSIS. SOLANS, MARIANA; RUIZ, OSCAR A.; WALL, LUIS G.. Berlin:
SPRINGER. 2015 vol.65 n°1. p33 - 37. issn 0334-5114.
35. Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Lipid Peroxidation Changes in Rice Somaclonal lines
Subjected to Salt Stress. MÓNICA RACHOSKI; AYELEN GAZQUEZ; PABLO CALZADILLA;
RODOLFO BEZUS; ANDRES RODRIGUEZ; OSCAR A RUIZ; ANA MENENDEZ; MARÍA
MARINA, SANTIAGO JAVIER MAIALE. ACTA PHYSIOLOGIAE PLANTARUM.HEIDELBERG:
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG. 2015 vol. n°. p - . issn 0137-5881.
Awards:
-) INNOVATION 2009 "Innovations for Agriculture" award. Project: PIONNER. A Lotus
interspecific hybrid for improve the quality forage. Ministry of Science and Technology.
Argentina.
-) 2007 1st Prize for Best Work of Applied Science. RELAR: Latin American Meeting of
rhizobiology. Los Cocos. Córdoba 2007. Argentine Topic: Taxonomic, physiological assessment
symbiotic and symbionts of L. tenuis to the development of high quality inoculants in the region
of the Pampa del Salado. Dra. Julia Estrella et al.
-) Research Project Member of "Design and development of biomimetic, inorganic materials
(microspheres, gels, monolithic systems) with controlled porosity. Using different natural
polyamines and short chain organic acids as agents molders structures. It´s application in the
formulation of bio-fertilizers " DUPONT CONICET- Award 2006.
-) Director of the Project "Promotion of forage production in marginal areas of the Pampa del
Salado through genetic improvement of Lotus glaber". Universia Scholarship Award for Rio 2005
Call for trained researchers Scientific Research Projects for Regional Development.
-) Project Director "Lotus glaber: a technological challenge for Argentina” CONICET AwardMONSANTO 2004.
-) Scientific Advisor to the "Workshop on Environmental Education" Project Science Club Middle
School No. 3 Chascomús. Activities UNSAM. November 1997. Gold Medal.
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