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 ...
Rodrigo Tarrega, Guillermo; Carrera Montesinos, Javier; Ruiz-Ferrer, Virginia; Del Toro, F.J.; Llave, C; Voinnet, O.; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Public Library of Science, 2012-07)
Understanding the mechanisms by which plants trigger host defenses in response to viruses has been a challenging problem owing to the multiplicity of factors and complexity of interactions involved. The advent of genomic ...
Acosta-Leal, R; Duffy, S; Xiong, Z; Hammond, R.W; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(American Phytopathological Society, 2011-10)
[EN] Recent studies in plant virus evolution are revealing that genetic structure and behavior of virus and viroid populations can explain important pathogenic properties of these agents, such as host resistance breakdown, ...
Pérez de Castro, Ana María; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Cañizares Sales, Joaquín; Pascual Bañuls, Laura; Blanca Postigo, José Miguel; Díez Niclós, Mª José Teresa de Jesús; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Picó Sirvent, María Belén(Bentham Science Publishers, 2012-05)
[EN] Plant breeding has been very successful in developing improved varieties using conventional tools and methodologies. Nowadays, the availability of genomic tools and resources is leading to a new revolution of plant ...
Mushegian, Arcady; Shipunov, Alexey; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(BioMed Central, 2016-08-15)
Background: The known plant viruses mostly infect angiosperm hosts and have RNA or small DNA genomes. The only other lineage of green plants with a relatively well-studied virome, unicellular chlorophyte algae, is mostly ...
[EN] The Cucurbita genus (squashes, pumpkins and gourds) includes important domesticated species such as C. pepo, C. maxima and C. moschata. In this study, we present a high-quality draft of the zucchini (C. pepo) genome. ...
Vanacloig-Pedrós, Elena; Proft, Markus Hans; Pascual-Ahuir Giner, María Desamparados(MDPI AG, 2016-09-22)
[EN] Citrinin (CIT) and ochratoxin A (OTA) are important mycotoxins, which frequently co-contaminate foodstuff. In order to assess the toxicologic threat posed by the two mycotoxins separately or in combination, their ...
Renau Morata, Begoña; Molina Romero, Rosa Victoria; Carrillo, Laura; Cebolla Cornejo, Jaime; Sánchez Perales, Manuel; Pollmann, Stephan; Dominguez, Jose; Corrales, Alba Rocío; Flexas, J.; Vicente, Jesus; Medina, Joaquín; Nebauer, Sergio G.(Frontiers Media SA, 2017-05-03)
[EN] Cycling Dof Factor (CDF) transcription factors (TFs) are involved in multiple processes related to plant growth and development. A member of this family, CDF3, has recently been linked in Arabidopsis to the regulation ...
Lage Segura, Laura(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-07-16)
[ES] La vitrificación embrionaria es un proceso mediante el cual se pueden conservar embriones a
largo plazo. Hasta el momento, se ha considerado una herramienta biotecnológica neutra, pero
trabajos en conejo (Oryctolgus ...
Villanueva Párraga, Gloria(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-10-07)
[ES] El cambio climático, impulsado por actividades humanas, intensifica el estrés abiótico en la agricultura, afectando la productividad y la salud del ecosistema. La creciente demanda de productos vegetales expande las ...
Pallás Benet, Vicente; Garcia, J.A(Society for General Microbiology, 2011)
[EN] Plant viruses are biotrophic pathogens that need living tissue for their multiplication and thus, in the infection-defence equilibrium, they do not normally cause plant death. In some instances virus infection may ...
Costa Broseta, Álvaro(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-05-17)
[EN] Nitric oxide (NO) regulates developmental and stress-related plant processes through still largely undefined mechanisms. To study the effect of deficient NO biosynthesis on genome-wide Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome, ...
[EN] Skin is an important trait for Rex rabbits and skin development is influenced by many processes, including hair follicle cycling, keratinocyte differentiation and formation of coat colour and skin morphogenesis. We ...
[EN] The development of high nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) cultivars under low N inputs is required for sustainable agriculture. To this end, in this study, we analyzed the impact of long-term suboptimal N conditions on ...
[EN] The stigmas of Crocus sativus accumulate the exclusive apocarotenoids crocin and picrocrocin, which are dried and desiccated to make commercial saffron. In addition to providing characteristic organoleptic qualities, ...
Gómez Jiménez, Maria Dolores; Vera Sirera, Francisco José; Perez Amador, Miguel Angel(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-08)
[EN] Fruits of angiosperms can be divided into dry and fleshy fruits, depending on their dispersal strategies. Despite their apparently different developmental programmes, researchers have attempted to compare dry and ...
Escaray, Francisco José; Valeri, Maria Cristina; Damiani, Francesco; Ruiz, Oscar Adolfo; Carrasco, Pedro; Paolocci, Francesco(Springer-Verlag, 2024-01)
[EN] The environmental impact and health of ruminants fed with forage legumes depend on the herbage's concentration and structure of proanthocyanidins (PAs). Unfortunately, the primary forage legumes (alfalfa and clover) ...
Pérez-Benavente, Beatriz; Fathinajafabadi, Alihamze; de la Fuente, Lorena; Gandía, Carolina; Martínez-Férriz, Arantxa; Pardo-Sánchez, José Miguel; Milian-Medina, Lara; Conesa, Ana; Romero, Octavio A.; Carretero, Julián; Matthiesen, Rune; Jariel-Encontre, Isabelle; Piechaczyk, Marc; Farràs, Rosa(BioMed Central Ltd., 2022-12-09)
[EN] Background: JUNB transcription factor contributes to the formation of the ubiquitous transcriptional complex AP-1 involved in the control of many physiological and disease-associated functions. The roles of JUNB in ...
Background: The possibilities offered by next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms are revolutionizing
biotechnological laboratories. Moreover, the combination of NGS sequencing and affordable high-throughput
genotyping ...
Mir Moreno, Ricardo; Hernandez Jorda, Maria Luisa; Abou-Mansour, Eliane; Martínez-Rivas, José Manuel; Mauch, Felix; Metraux, Jean-Pierre; Leon Ramos, Jose(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013-08)
Pathogen and Circadian Controlled 1 (PCC1) was previously characterized as a regulator of defence against pathogens
and stress-activated transition to flowering. Plants expressing an RNA interference construct for the ...