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    • Approaches to study light effects on brassinosteroid sensitivity 

      Paulišic, Sandi; Molina Contreras, Maria José; Roig Villanova, Irma; Martínez García, Jaime Francisco (Springer, 2017-01-26)
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      Light perception and hormone signaling in plants are likely connected at multiple points. Light conditions, perceived by photoreceptors, control plant responses by altering hormone concentration, tissue sensitivity, or a ...
    • Basic pentacysteine proteins mediate MADS domain complex binding to the DNA for tissue-specific expression of target genes in Arabidopsis 

      Simonini, Sara; Roig Villanova, Irma; Gregis, Veronica; Colombo, Bilitis; Colombo, Lucia; Kater, Martin M. (Wiley (Blackwell Publishing), 2012)
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      BASIC PENTACYSTEINE (BPC) transcription factors have been identified in a large variety of plant species. In Arabidopsis thaliana there are seven BPC genes, which, except for BPC5, are expressed ubiquitously. BPC genes are ...
    • BPC transcription factors and a Polycomb Group protein confine the expression of the ovule identity gene SEEDSTICK in Arabidopsis 

      Petrella, Rosanna; Caselli, Francesca; Roig Villanova, Irma; Vignati, Valentina; Chiara, Matteo; Ezquer, Ignacio; Tadini, Luca; Kater, Martin M.; Gregis, Veronica (Wiley (Blackwell Publishing), 2020-01-06)
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      The BASIC PENTACYSTEINE (BPC) GAGA (C-box) binding proteins belong to a small plant transcription factor family. We previously reported that BPCs of class I bind directly to C-boxes in the SEEDSTICK (STK) promoter and ...
    • Breeding long shelf-life (LSL) tomato landraces to non-trellised culture and water deficit irrigation: the effect on yield and postharvest storage 

      Schober, Philipp; Buil Safranca, Julia; Rivera Pinzano, Ana; Campo Sánchez, Sonia; Roig Villanova, Irma; Casals Missio, Joan (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2022-09-26)
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      Non-trellised culture of tomato is gaining interest among farmers cultivating long shelf-life (LSL) landraces because of the reduction in production costs. This cropping system can benefit from the selection of determinate ...
    • Communicating across generations: The Bsister language 

      Roig Villanova, Irma; Bernardi, Jamila; Marocco, Adriano; Battaglia, Raffaella (2014)
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      Bsister proteins form a clade of MADS-box transcription factors that originated 300 million years ago, after ferns diverged but before Angiosperms and Gymnosperms lineages did. Thus, Bsister proteins have been found in ...
    • Current perspectives on the hormonal control of seed development in Arabidopsis and maize: a focus on auxin. 

      Locascio, Antonella; Roig Villanova, Irma; Bernardi, Jamila; Varotto, Serena (2014)
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      The seed represents the unit of reproduction of flowering plants, capable of developing into another plant, and to ensure the survival of the species under unfavorable environmental conditions. It is composed of three ...
    • DRACULA2 is a dynamic nucleoporin with a role in regulating the shade avoidance syndrome in Arabidopsis 

      Roig Villanova, Irma (2016)
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      When plants grow in close proximity basic resources such as light can become limiting. Under such conditions plants respond to anticipate and/or adapt to the light shortage, a process known as the shade avoidance syndrome ...
    • Early cold stress responses in post-meiotic anthers from tolerant and sensitive rice cultivars 

      González Schain, Nahuel; Roig Villanova, Irma; Kater, Martin M. (2019-12-01)
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      Rice grain production is susceptible to a changing environment that imposes both biotic and abiotic stress conditions. Cold episodes are becoming more frequent in the last years and directly affect rice yield in areas with ...
    • Effects of nitrous oxide (N2O) treatment on the postharvest ripening of banana fruit 

      Palomer Tarrides, Xavier; Roig Villanova, Irma; Grima Calvo, Desirée; Vendrell Melich, Miquel (2005)
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      The effect of nitrous oxide (N2O) alone or in combination with reduced oxygen (O2) levels on the postharvest ripening of mature green banana fruit was investigated. Banana fruit stored at 20 °C were exposed, in a flow-through ...
    • Light signaling: back to space 

      Roig Villanova, Irma; Bou Torrent, Jordi; Martínez García, Jaime Francisco (2008)
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      Recent work has increased our understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of the phytochrome family of photoreceptors in controlling plant photomorphogenesis. However, the importance of long-distance communication ...
    • Light signals generated by vegetation shade facilitate acclimation to low light in shade-avoider plants 

      Morelli, Luca; Roig Villanova, Irma; Rodríguez Concepción, Manuel; Paulišic, Sandi; Martínez García, Jaime Francisco; Wenting, Qin; Iglesias Sánchez, Ariadna; Florez Sarasa, Igor (American Society of Plant Biologists, 2021-05-07)
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      When growing in search for light, plants can experience continuous or occasional shading by other plants. Plant proximity causes a decrease in the ratio of red to far-red light (low R:FR) due to the preferential absorbance ...
    • MADS-box and bHLH transcription factors coordinate transmitting tract development in arabidopsis thaliana 

      Di Marzo, Mauricio; Roig Villanova, Irma; Caselli, Francesca; Gregis, Veronica; Chiara, Matteo; Colombo, Lucia; Kater, Martin M.; Zanchetti, Eva; Bardetti, Paola; Guazzotti, Elisabetta; Mendes, Marta Adelina (2020-01-01)
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      The MADS-domain transcription factor SEEDSTICK (STK) controls several aspects of plant reproduction. STK is co-expressed with CESTA (CES), a basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH) transcription factor-encoding gene. CES was reported ...
    • Maternal control of PIN1 is required for female gametophyte development in Arabidopsis 

      Roig Villanova, Irma; Masiero, Simona; Colombo, Lucia; Ceccato, Luca; Sinha Roy, Dola; Bencivenga, Stefano; Ditengou, Franck Anicet; Palme, Klaus; Simon, Rüdger (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2013)
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      Land plants are characterised by haplo-diploid life cycles, and developing ovules are the organs in which the haploid anddiploid generations coexist. Recently it has been shown that hormones such as auxin ...
    • Millora de varietats tradicionals de tomàquet 

      Casals Missio, Joan; Campo, Sònia; Roig Villanova, Irma (2021-06-01)
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      Les varietats tradicionals de tomàquet constitueixen un recurs important per les explotacions hortícoles ecològiques, tant per la seva adaptació a condicions d’una agricultura de baixa intensitat, com per les seves ...
    • Molecular regulation of plant responses to shade 

      Roig Villanova, Irma; Martínez García, Jaime Francisco (Springer, 2022-09-21)
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      In sun-loving plants, detection of the proximity of nearby competitors triggers a set of responses known as the shade avoidance syndrome (SAS). These responses will help the plant to acclimate to the proximity of vegetation ...
    • Ovule development, a new model for lateral organ formation 

      Roig Villanova, Irma; Colombo, Lucia; Cucinotta, Mara (2014)
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      In spermatophytes the ovules upon fertilization give rise to the seeds. It is essential to understand the mechanisms that control ovule number and development as they ultimately determine the final number of seeds and, ...
    • PAR1 and PAR2 integrate shade and hormone transcriptional networks 

      Bou Torrent, Jordi; Roig Villanova, Irma; Galstyan, Anahit; Martínez García, Jaime Francisco (2008)
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      PHYTOCHROME RAPIDLY REGULATED1 (PAR1) and PAR2 are two negative regulators of shade avoidance syndrome (SAS) responses in Arabidopsis. PAR1 and PAR2 belong to the bHLH family of transcription factors and act as direct ...
    • Phenotypic diversity and distinctiveness of the Belltall garlic landrace 

      Casals Missio, Joan; Rivera Pinzano, Ana; Campo Sánchez, Sonia; Aymerich Colomer, Ernest; Isern Viana, Helena; Palou Garcia, Anna; Monfort, Amparo; Roig Villanova, Irma; Garriga Costa, Alba; Riu Rusell, Marc; Howad, Werner (2023-01-04)
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      Among the Mediterranean horticultural landraces, garlic is one of the crops most threatened by genetic erosion. Due to its sexual sterility and to the incidence of seed-borne diseases, historical varieties have been widely ...
    • Photoreceptor activity contributes to contrasting responses to shade in cardamine and arabidopsis seedlings 

      Molina Contreras, Maria José; Paulišic, Sandi; Then, Christiane; Moreno Romero, Jordi; Pastor Andreu, Pedro; Morelli, Luca; Roig Villanova, Irma; Jenkins, Huw; Hallab, Asis; Gan, Xiangchao; Gómez Cadenas, Aurelio; Tsiantis, Miltos; Rodríguez Concepción, Manuel; Martínez García, Jaime Francisco (American Society of Plant Biologists, 2019-09-17)
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      Plants have evolved two major ways to deal with nearby vegetation or shade: avoidance and tolerance. Moreover, someplants respond to shade in different ways; for example, Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) undergoes an ...
    • Plant responses to vegetation proximity: a whole life avoiding shade 

      Roig Villanova, Irma; Martínez García, Jaime Francisco (2016-02-27)
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      In high density of vegetation, plants detect neighbors by perceiving changes in light quality through phytochrome photoreceptors. Close vegetation proximity might result in competition for resources, such as light. To face ...