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© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)., Students with chronic conditions (CC) tend to experience several barriers in terms of their school participation and performance. Therefore, the present study aims to explore the factors related to the time of diagnosis of CC (recent/non-recent), the barriers to participation and academic success (health condition, people's attitude towards CC and school physical environment), the physical and mental health (physical/psychological symptoms and concerns) and school-related variables (relationship with teachers and peers), regarding the school participation of first-year students with CC. This work is part of the HOUSE-Colégio F3 Project, University of Lisbon, which includes 1143 first-year university students from 17 Faculties and Institutes of the University of Lisbon. In this specific study, only the subsample of 207 students with CC was considered, 72.4% of which were female, aged between 18 and 54 years (M = 20.00; SD = 4.83). The results showed that students with a recent diagnosis of CC and students with school participation affected by the CC were those who presented more negative indicators regarding barriers to school participation, physical and mental health, and school-related variables. A greater impact of CC in terms of school participation was associated with having a recent diagnosis, with people's attitude towards CC and with the health condition as barriers, with more psychological symptoms and worse relationships with teachers and peers. This is a relevant message for the organization of health services for students with CC at the beginning of their university studies, especially since they are often displaced from home and managing their health conditions alone (in many cases, for the first time)., Ana Cerqueira—Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Grant (SFRH/BD/148403/2019). Fábio Botelho Guedes—Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Grant (SFRH/BD/148299/2019).

Doutoramento em Biologia / Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Universidade de Lisboa Wheat is an essential crop for food and feed, due to its nutritional value and unique aptitude to produce gluten and their derived food products. It is thus essential to understand how increasingly common extreme weather events like heatwaves, defined as short periods of high temperatures (HT), affect wheat grain production and quality, and transcriptomic modulation. Thus, in order to identify wheat varieties with increased tolerance to HT, the objective of this work focused on the characterization of the already referred parameters in plants of several commercial varieties recommended to be used nowadays in Portugal and traditional varieties, submitted to high temperatures during grain filling. Using molecular markers, we showed that commercial genotypes have predicted good grain technological quality, based on the allelic composition of genes related with grain composition. Most commercial and traditional genotypes showed negative effects, induced by heatwave-like treatment, revealed by a decrease in grain number and weight, while protein content was increased. Also, through attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) analysis, we denoted the occurrence of alterations in grain polysaccharide composition induced by HT. Additionally, HT increased protein content variability in landraces and reduced it on commercial varieties. Regarding transcriptomic profiles assessed immediately after the HT treatment, traditional varieties revealed a significantly higher number of differentially expressed genes (DEGs), that include genes coding for heat shock proteins and cupins, and more similar HT responses than commercial varieties. Furthermore, Bancal and landraces DEGs appear to be more associated with several metabolic pathways, while in Antequera DEGs were preferentially related with transcription modulation and RNA and protein synthesis N/A