Publications – Instituto de Biología Celular y Molecular de Plantas (IBMCP)

Family alliances feeding the carotenoid pathway in tomato

Manuel Rodriguez-Concepcion, Sooyeon Lim, Sun-Hwa Ha

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 00, No. 0, pp. 1-8 https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf297

2025

The quantitative effect of seed production triggers the end of flowering in tomato

María Jesús López-Martín, Cristina Fernández, Concepción Gómez-Mena

Plant Physiology, 199, kifa195 https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kifa195

2025

Structural insights into ABA receptor agonists reveal critical features to optimize and design a broad-spectrum ABA signaling activator

Mar Bono, Cristian Mayordomo, Alberto Coego, Jonatan Illescas-Miranda, Maria Rivera-Moreno, Lourdes Infantes, Pablo López-Carracedo, Marya Sanchez-Olvera, Constanza Martin-Vasquez, Gaston A. Pizzio, Javier Merino, Javier Forment, Ebe Merilo, Juan Carlos Estevez, Armando Albert, Pedro L. Rodriguez

Mol. Plant 18, 1526–1548 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2025.07.014

2025

The combined effect of a newly designed biostimulant and a plant growth-promoting bacterium increases tomato yield under salt stress by increasing the cytokinin isopentenyladenine riboside content

Patricia Benito, Sara Trigueros, Marina Celdrán, Valeria Sánchez, Alberto Coronado, Javier Bellón, Vicente Arbona, Miguel González-Guzmán, Rosa Porcel, Lynne Yenush, José M. Mulet

Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, 12:117 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40538-025-00825-8

2025

Tomato flowering depends on overlapping functions of AP1/FUL-like genes in reproductive meristem specification

Xiaobing Jiang, Iris E. Zahn, Kai Thoris, Chris Roelofsen, Edelin Roque, Concepción Gómez-Mena, Cristina Fernández, Hongru Wang, Gerco C. Angenent, Marian Bemer

New Phytologist, 2025, 1–1 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70541

2025

Using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to predict budbreak of the following year

Amy Watson, Vincent Segura, Yoann Bourhis, Guillaume Perez, Isabelle Farrera, Evelyne Costes, Fernando Andrés

Quantitative Plant Biology, 6, 2, 1–9 https://doi.org/10.1017/qpb.2025.10019

2025

Unraveling the mechanisms of multifaceted defense induction in sweet peppers by (Z)-3-hexenyl propanoate

Chaymaa Riahi, Carolina Gallego-Giraldo, Ángeles Calatayud, Alberto Urbanaja, Meritxell Pérez-Hedo

Entomologia Generalis 10.1127/entomologia/3312

2025

A shade-hyposensitive tomato line shows altered auxin homeostasis and higher fruit yield under high-density field conditions

Esteban Burbano-Erazo, Silvana Francesca, Miguel Simon-Moya, Julia Palau-Rodriguez, Andrea Berdonces, Laura Valverde, Jose M. Perez-Beser, Matteo Addonizio, Jaume F. Martinez-Garcia, Maria Manuela Rigano, Manuel Rodriguez-Concepcion

New Phytologist 2025 10.1111/nph.70384

2025

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Summary

Rubino L, et al. (incl. Hernandez C, Pallas V)

Journal of General Virology, 106, 002114 10.1099/ijgv.0.002114

2025

RNA silencing response in chloroplast-replicating viroid siRNA biogenesis in plants

Pengcheng Zhang, Xinian Zhang, Atef M. Mohamed, Leizhen Wang, José-Antonio Daròs, Shifang Li, Mahmut Tör, Yiguo Hong

Phytopathology Research, 2025, 76, 62 https://doi.org/10.1186/s42483-025-00351-3

2025

Arabidopsis thaliana iron superoxide dismutase FeSOD1 protects ARGONAUTE 1 in a copper-dependent manner

Ariel H. Tomasi, Ana Pere-García, Guillermo Rodrigo, Javier Sánchez-Vicente, Adriana E. Cisneros, Marta Olmos, Amparo Andrés-Bordería, Lucío López-Dolz, José-Antonio Daròs, Lola Peñarrubia, Alberto Carbonell

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 00, No. pp. 1-16 https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf270

2025

Comparative genomics-driven design of virus-delivered short RNA inserts triggering robust gene silencing

Arcadio García, Verónica Aragones, Silvia Gioiosa, Francisco J. Herraiz, Paloma Ortiz-García, Jaime Prohens, José-Antonio Darós, Fabio Pasin

Plant Biotechnology Journal, https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70254

2025

Metabolic and microbial responses of Ceratitis capitata to essential oil-based nano-emulsions: Implications for pest management

Antonino Modafferi, Alberto Urbanja, Cristina M. Aure, Giulia Giunti, Isabel Martinez-Sañudo, Annamaria Ienco, Orlando Campolo, Vincenzo Palmeri, Merixtell Perez-Hedo

Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, 214, 106569 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pestbp.2025.106569

2025

A PIF-SAUR module safeguards hypocotyl elongation from ABA inhibition in the dark

Esther Caïbano, Natalia Rodríguez-Sánchez, Daniela Gómez-Soto, Fatima Zahra El Kendi, Jorge Lozano-Juste, Toshinori Kinoshita, Juan Carlos Oliveros, Clara Bourbousse, Sara Fonseca

Sci. Adv., 5, ea1180955 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1208955

2025

Analysis of multiple-herbicide resistant Amaranthus palmeri populations from Spain points to an introduction of the eccDNA from America

Alfredo Manicardi, Germán Mora, André Lucas Simões Araujo, Todd A. Gaines, Jorge Lozano-Justé, Joel Torra

Plant Management Science, VOLUMEN, PÁGINAS https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.70034

2025

Growth arrest is a DNA damage protection strategy in Arabidopsis

Antonio Serrano-Mislat, Jorge Hernández-García, Carlos de Ollas, Noel Blanco-Tourián, Silvia Jurado-García, Cristina Úrbez, Aurelio Gómez-Cadenas, Robert Sablowski, David Alabadi, Miguel A. Blázquez

Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60733-1

2025

STAY-GREEN overexpression in dark-incubated leaves promotes the formation of transitional chloroplast-like plastids

Hui Zheng, Salvador Torres-Montilla, Xingqi Huang, Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción, Shan Lu

Plant Physiology, 2025, 198, 242 https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kia242

2025

Genotype-dependent responses to HIPV exposure in citrus: repression of CsPUB21 and activation of SA/JA signaling

Raúl Ortells-Fabra, Carolina Gallego-Giraldo, Maria Angeles Forner-Giner, Alberto Urbanéja, Meritxell Pérez-Hedo

Front. Plant Sci. 10.3389/fpls.2025.1605151

2025

Innovative screening for mutants affected in seed oil/protein allocation identifies TRANSPARENT TESTA7 as a regulator of oil accumulation

Alain Lécrivain, Massimiliano Corso, Stéphanie Boutet, Sophie Le Gall, Regina Niñoles, Jose Gadea, Philippe Guerche, Sophie Jasinski

The Plant Journal, 122, 70269 https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70269

2025

Optimization of Tomato Shoot Architecture by Combined Mutations in the Floral Activators FUL2/MBP20 and the Repressor SP.

Jiang, X.; López-Martín, M.J.; Gómez-Mena, C.; Ferrándiz, C.; Bemer, M.

Int. J. Mol. Sci., 26, 1161. 2025. doi: 10.3390/ijms26031161

2025

Male sterility-induced parthenocarpy arose during tomato domestication.

Salazar-Sarasua, B., Roque, E, González-Sanz, C., Bombarely, A, Girardi, C, García-Sánchez, J., Cañas, LC, Beltrán, JP and Gómez-Mena C.

Physiologia Plantarum; 177(2):e70182. 2025. doi: 10.1111/ppl.70182.

2025

The quantitative effect of seed production triggers the end of flowering in tomato.

López-Martín, MJ, Ferrándiz, C, and Gómez-Mena, C.

Plant Physiology (Published online ahead of print). doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiaf195

2025

Novel plant cell suspension platforms for saffron apocarotenoid production and its impact on carotenoid and volatile profiles

María Lobato-Gómez, Markus Laurel, Marta Vázquez-Vilar, José L. Rambla, Diego Orzáez, Heiko Rischer, Antonio Granell

Plant Biotechnol. J., https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70153

2025

Natural modulators of abscisic acid Signaling: Insights into polyphenol-based antagonists and their role in ABA receptor regulation

Javier Merino, María Rivera-Moreno, Mar Bono, Diego Núñez-Villanueva, Ana González-Vega, Cristian Mayordomo, Lourdes Infantes, Rupesh Chikhale, Pedro L. Rodríguez, Armando Albert

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 227, 110155 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2025.110155

2025

Phosphorylation/dephosphorylation-mediated regulation of ABI1/2 activity and stability for fine-tuning ABA signaling

Bono et al.

Molecular Plant https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2025.05.006

2025

Green pest control strategies: essential oil-based nano-emulsions for Delottococcus aberiae management.

Modafferi A, Urbaneja A, Aure CM, Laudani F, Palmeri V, Giunti G, Campolo O*, Perez-Hedo M

J Pest Sci. 2025 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-025-01914-1

2025