Biologist by the Universidad de Valencia in 1990
Between 1991 and 1995, I did my PhD at the IBMCP in Valencia with Juan Carbonell, working in the physiology and molecular biology of polyamines in during fruit development and senescence in pea.
I moved to the Plant Research Lab at the Michigan State University in 1996 to join Pamela Green´s lab for a postdoc, where I spent almost 5 years working in the cellular mechanism of mRNA decay and later in the development of the first microarray platform in plants (Arabidopsis).
I moved back to the IBMCP in 2001 and with a Ramon y Cajal contract, where I continued working in fruit development and specialized in the role of gibberellins in Arabidopsis.
In 2005 I got a permanent position as Científico Titular at the IBMCP, and started my own group. Since then, we have been interested in different aspects of the hormonal regulation of fruit set and development, and more recently in the role of gibberellins in ovule and seed development.
Alvarez-Ponce D, Ruiz-González MX, Vera-Sirera F, Feyertag F, Perez-Amador MA, Fares MA (2018) Arabidopsis Heat Stress-Induced Proteins Are Enriched in Electrostatically Charged Amino Acids and Intrinsically Disordered Regions. Int J Mol Sci 19: E2276. doi: 10.3390/ijms19082276
Gomez MD, Barro-Trastoy D, Escoms E, Saura-Sánchez M, Sánchez I, Briones-Moreno A, Vera-Sirera F, Carrera E, Ripoll JJ, Yanofsky MF, Lopez-Diaz I, Alonso JM, , Perez-Amador MA (2018). Gibberellins negatively modulate ovule number in plants. Development 145: dev163865. doi:10.1242/dev.163865
Reig C, Gil-Muñoz F, Vera-Sirera F, García-Lorca A, Martínez-Fuentes A, Mesejo C, Pérez-Amador MA, Agustí M (2017) Bud sprouting and floral induction and expression of FT in loquat [Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.]. Planta 246: 915-925. DOI 10.1007/s00425-017-2740-6
Merelo P, Agustí J, Arbona V, Costa ML, Estornell LH, Gómez-Cadenas A, Coimbra S, Gómez MD, Pérez-Amador MA, Talón M, Tadeo FR (2017) Cell wall remodeling in abscission zone cells during ethylene-promoted fruit abscission in citrus. Front Plant Sci 8: 126
Gimeno-Ferrer F, Pastor-Cantizano N, Bernart-Silvestre C, Selvi-Martinez P, Vera-Sirera F, Gao C Perez-Amador MA, Jiang L, Aniento F, Marcote MJ (2017) 2-COP is involved in early secretory traffic in Arabidopsis and is required for plant growth. J Exp Bot 68: 391-401
Gomez MD, Ventimilla D, Sacristan R, Perez-Amador MA (2016) Gibberellins regulate ovule integument development by interfering with the transcription factor ATS. Plant Physiol 172: 2403-2415
Estornell LH, Gómez MD, Pérez-Amador MA, Talón M, Tadeo FR (2016) Secondary abscission zones: understanding the molecular mechanisms triggering stylar abscission in citrus. Acta Horticulturae 1051
Estornell LH, Wildhagen M, Pérez-Amador MA, Talón M, Tadeo FR, Butenko MA (2015) The IDA peptide controls abscission in Arabidopsis and Citrus. Frontiers in Plant Science 6: 1003
Vera-Sirera F, Gómez MD, Perez-Amador MA (2015) DELLA proteins, a group of GRAS transcription regulators, mediate gibberellin signaling. En “Plant Transcription Factors: Evolutionary, Structural and Functional Aspects”, Editado por Daniel H Gonzalez. Editorial Elsevier, pp 313-328. ISBN: 978-0-12-800854-6
Gallego-Giraldo C, Hu J, Urbez C, Gómez MD, Sun TP, Perez-Amador MA (2014) Role of the gibberellin receptors GID1 during fruit-set in Arabidopsis. Plant J 79: 1020-1032. PMID: 24961590
Gómez MD, Vera-Sirera F, Perez-Amador MA (2014) Molecular program of senescence in dry and fleshy fruit. J. Exp Bot 65: 4515-4526
Band LR, Wells DM, Fozard JA, Ghetiu T, French AP, Pound MP, Wilson MH, Yu L, Li W, Hijazi HI, Oh J, Pearce SP, Perez-Amador MA, Yun J, Kramer E, Alonso JM, Godin C, Vernoux T, Hodgman TC, Pridmore TP, Swarup R, King JR, Bennett MJ (2014) Systems analysis of auxin transport in the Arabidopsis root apex. Plant Cell 26: 862-875
Andrés-Colás N , Perea-García A, Mayo de Andrés S, García-Molina A, Dorcey E, Rodríguez-Navarro S, Pérez-Amador MA, Puig S, Peñarrubia L (2013) Comparison of global responses to mild deficiency and excess copper levels in Arabidopsis seedlings. Metallomics 5: 1234-1246
Perea-García A, García-Molina A, Andrés-Colás N, Vera-Sirera F, Perez-Amador MA, Puig S, Peñarrubia L (2013) Arabidopsis copper transport protein COPT2 participates in the crosstalk between iron deficiency responses and low phosphate signaling. Plant Physiol 162: 180-194
Péret B, Swarup K, Ferguson A, Seth M, Yang Y, Dhondt S, James N, Casimiro I, Perry P, Syed A, Yang H, Reemer J, Venison E, Howell C, Perez-Amador MA, Yun J, Alonso JM, Beemster GT, Laplaze L, Murphy A, Bennett MJ, Nielsen E, Swarup R (2012) AUX/LAX genes encode a family of auxin influx transporters that perform distinct function during Arabidopsis development. Plant Cell 24: 2874-2885
Gonzalez-Guzman M, Pizzio GA, Antonia R, Vera-Sirera F, Merilo E, Bassel GW, Fernández MA, Holdsworth MJ, Perez-Amador MA, Kollist H, Rodríguez PL (2012) PYR/PYL/RCAR receptors play a major role for quantitative regulation of stomatal aperture and transcriptional response to abscisic acid. Plant Cell 24: 2483-2496
Garcia-Lor A, García-Martinez JL, Perez-Amador MA (2012) Identification of ovule and seed specific genes from Citrus clementina. Tree Genetics and Genomes 8: 227–235
Marques MC, Perez-Amador MA (2012) Construction and analysis of full-length and normalized cDNA libraries from citrus. Methods Mol Biol 815: 51-65
Carbonell-Bejerano P, Urbez C, Granell A, Carbonell J, Perez-Amador MA (2011) Ethylene is involved in pistil fate by modulating the onset of ovule senescence and the GA-mediated fruit set in Arabidopsis. BMC Plant Biol 11: 84
Gómez MD, Urbez C, Pérez-Amador MA, Carbonell J (2011) Characterization of constricted fruit (ctf) mutant uncovers a role for AtMYB117/LOF1 in ovule and fruit development in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS ONE 6: e18760