Floral organogenesis requires coordinated interactions between genes specifying floral organ identity and those regulating growth and size of developing floral organs. With the aim to isolate regulatory genes linking both ...
Escobar-Bravo, Rocio; Alba, Juan M.; Pons Puig, Clara; Granell Richart, Antonio; Kant, Merijn R.; Moriones, Enrique; Fernandez-Munoz, Rafael(Frontiers Media, 2016-11-22)
Whiteflies damage tomatoes mostly via the viruses they transmit. Cultivated tomatoes lack many of the resistances of their wild relatives. In order to increase protection to its major pest, the whitefly Bemisia tabaci and ...
Hueso Estornell, Leandro; Pons Puig, Clara; Martinez, Alicia; O’Connor, José Enrique; Orzáez Calatayud, Diego Vicente; Granell Richart, Antonio(Elsevier, 2013-08-15)
[EN] The tomato is a model for fleshy fruit development and ripening. Here we report on the identification of
a novel unique cell autonomous/cellular pattern of expression that was detected in fruits of transgenic
tomato ...
Cocaliadis-Caisson, María Florencia; Fernandez-Munoz, Rafael; Pons Puig, Clara; Orzáez Calatayud, Diego Vicente; Granell Richart, Antonio(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-08)
[EN] Fruits are generally regarded as photosynthate sinks as they rely on energy provided by sugars transported from leaves to carry out the highly demanding processes of development and ripening; eventually these imported ...
[EN] All-flesh tomato cultivars are devoid of locular gel and exhibit enhanced firmness and improved postharvest storage. Here, we show that SlMBP3 is a master regulator of locular tissue in tomato fruit and that a deletion ...
González Guzmán, Miguel; Rodriguez, Lesia; Lorenzo Orts, Laura; Pons Puig, Clara; Sarrion-Perdigones, Alejandro; Fernandez, Maria A; Peirats Llobet, Marta; Forment Millet, José Javier
.; Moreno Alvero, María; Cutler, Sean R.; Albert, Armando; Granell Richart, Antonio; Rodríguez Egea, Pedro Luís(Oxford University Press, 2014-08)
[EN] Abscisic acid (ABA) plays a crucial role in the plant’s response to both biotic and abiotic stress. Sustainable production
of food faces several key challenges, particularly the generation of new varieties with ...
Powell, Ann L.T.; Nguyen, Cuong V.; Hill, Theresa; Cheng, Kalai Lam; Figueroa-Balderas, Rosa; Aktas, Hakan; Ashrafi, Hamid; Pons Puig, Clara; Fernández Muñoz, Rafael; Vicente, Ariel Roberto; Lopez-Baltazar, Javier; Barry, Cornelius S.; Liu, Yongsheng; Chetelat, Roger; Granell Richart, Antonio(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012-06-29)
[EN] Modern tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) varieties are bred for uniform ripening (u) light green fruit phenotypes to facilitate harvests of evenly ripened fruit. U encodes a Golden 2-like (GLK) transcription factor, SlGLK2, ...