Engelbert Imgrund, Daniela Sofía(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-06-17)
[EN] Euphorbia lathyris is a non-food crop that can be used for biofuel production. In this work we have obtained somatic embryos in this species. We have also obtained tetraploid lines, whith an increase in the weight and ...
Castelblanque, L; BALAGUER ZAMORA, BEGOÑA; Marti, C.; Orozco, M.; Vera Vera, Pablo(Blackwell Publishing, 2018-09)
[EN] Laticifers are specialized plant cells capable of indefinite elongation that ramify extensively and are responsible for latex biosynthesis and accumulation. However, the mechanisms underlying laticifer cell differentiation, ...
Castelblanque, L; BALAGUER ZAMORA, BEGOÑA; Marti, C.; Rodríguez-Blasco, Juan José; Orozco, M.; Vera Vera, Pablo(Landes Bioscience, 2017)
[EN] In the latex-bearing plants, the laticiferous system is the tubing structure that contains the latex and is constituted of living cells (laticifers). While laticifers are present only in a small percentage of the ...
Castelblanque, L.; García-Andrade, Javier; Martínez-Arias, Clara; Rodríguez, Juan J.; Escaray, Francisco J.; Aguilar-Fenollosa, Ernestina; Jaques, Josep A.; Vera Vera, Pablo(Cell Press, 2021-05-10)
[EN] More than 12,000 plant species (ca. 10% of flowering plants) exude latex when their tissues are injured. Latex is produced and stored in specialized cells named "laticifers''. Laticifers form a tubing system composed ...