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

Defender or accomplice? Dual roles of plant vesicle trafficking in restricting and enabling geminiviral systemic infection

Pepe Cana-Quiñaja, Pablo Morales-Martínez, Tábata Rosas-Díaz, Jessica Pérez-Sancho, Tamara Jiménez-Góngora, José Antonio Navarro, Rosa Lozano-Durán, Araceli G. Castillo, Vicente Pallarés, Eduardo R. Bejarano

New Phytologist (2025), https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70707

2025

From darkness to light: Genetic manipulation of an atypical plant virus unveils key insights into kitavirus biology, highlighting capsid protein and eIF4A engagement to drive viral infection

Mikhail Oliveira Leastro, Elliot Watanabe Kitajima, Vicente Pallas, Jesús A. Sánchez-Navarro

PLOS Pathogens, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013388

2025

The proxime of a plant viral protein with dual targeting to mitochondria and chloroplasts revealed MAPK cascade and splicing components as proviral factors

Maria Saiz-Bonilla, Yuanyuan Li, Christian Montes-Serey, Justin W. Walley, Sravhramma P. Dinesh-Kumar, Vicente Pallás, Jose A. Navarro

The Plant Journal, 122, e70161 10.1111/tpj.70161

2025

Assessment of Trioza erytreae microbiome and mitochondrial genome variability by integrated high-throughput sequencing approach

Michela Chiumienti, Vittorio Nicoloso, Alberto Fereres, José Alberto Pereira, Hans J. Maree, Rachelle Bester, Bernard Reynaud, Hélène Delatte, Leandro Peña, Vicente Pallás, Pedro Serra, Beatriz Navarro, Francesco Di Serio

Citrus Research International, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-025-01945-8

2025

Targeted Editing and Phenotypic Profiling of CmOFP13 Mutants Reveal Its Role in Melon Fruit Morphogenesis

Carlos Mayobre, María José Gonzalo, Montserrat Vergés, Guillem Guardia-Bersabé, Didac Jiménez-Sánchez, Antonio José Monforte, Jordi Garcia-Mas, Marta Pujol

Physiologia Plantarum, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.70641

2025

Tamarixia citricola Hansson and Guerrieri sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae): a new parasitoid of Diaphorina citri Kuwayamava (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) found during a classical biological control program in Cyprus

Alberto Urbaneja, Meritxell Pérez-Hedo, Nicos Seraphides, Anthems Melifronidou-Pantelidou, Stalo Gialouridou, Lia Markou, Menelaos C. Stavrinides, Chryso Kaponas, Omar Ruíz-Rivero, David J. W. Morgan, Christer Hansson, Mark S. Hoddle, Alejandro Tena, Emilio Guerrieri

BioControl https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-025-10367-5

2025

Tamarixia citricola Hansson and Guerrieri sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae): a new parasitoid of Diaphorina citri Kuwayamava (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) found during a classical biological control program in Cyprus

Alberto Urbaneja, Meritxell Pérez-Hedo, Nicos Seraphides, Anthems Melifronidou-Pantelidou, Stalo Gialouridou, Lia Markou, Menelaos C. Stavrinides, Chrysos Kaponas, Omar Ruiz-Rivero, David J. W. Morgan, Christer Hansson, Mark S. Hoddle, Alejandro Tena, Emilio Guerrieri

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-025-10367-5

2025

A Chemical Probe for Increasing Leaf Tocopherol Levels by Coordinated Modulation of Biosynthesis, Competition and Storage

Pablo Perez-Colola, Gaetan Glauzer, Jacobo Cruces, Jorge Lozano-Juste, Manuel Rodriguez-Concepcion

Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2025, 01-16 https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70459

2025

Gene silencing in plants by artificial small RNAs derived from minimal precursors and expressed via tobacco rattle virus

María Juárez-Molina, Ana Alarcia, Anamarija Primc, Iván Ortega-Miralles, Adriana E. Cisneros, Alberto Carbonell

Plant Molecular Biology, 115, 131 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-025-01661-y

2025

A model for soybean inflorescence architecture based on morphological and gene expression analysis

Francisca Pozo-Muñoz, Ana Berbel, Fanjing Kong, Francisco Madueño

Planta, 2026, 263, 5 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-025-04864-1

2025

Specificity of brassinosteroid perception and its integration at signaling crossroads in vascular development

Noel Blanco-Touriña, Christian S. Hardtke

The Plant Journal, 124, 70570 10.1111/tpj.70570

2025

Biotechnological production of crocetin and crocins using a carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase (CCD4) from Nyctanthes arbor-tristis

Lucía Morote, Elena Moreno Giménez, Alberto José López Jiménez, Ángela Rubio-Moraga, Verónica Aragonés, Oussama Ahrazem, José-Antonio Darbós, Lourdes Gómez-Gómez

Front. Plant Sci. 16:1671592 10.3389/fpls.2025.1671592

2025

Environmental regulation of plant vascular networks

Javier Agustí, Noel Blanco-Touriñán

Trends in Plant Science, Vol. 30, No. X, pp. Y-Z https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.10.010

2025

Effective Gene Silencing in Plants by Synthetic Trans-Acting siRNAs Derived From Minimal Precursors

Adriana E. Cisneros, Ana Alarcia, María Juárez-Molina, Alberto Carbonell

Nucleic Acids Research, 2025 10.1093/nar/gkaf183

2025

Local regulation of auxin-related pathways in the shoot apical meristem plays a major role during proliferative arrest

Irene González-Cuadra, Cristina Ferrándiz, Paz Merelo

Current Biology, 35, 1–14 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.07.065

2025

Precision RNAi in Tomato Using Synthetic Trans-Acting Small Interfering RNAs Derived From Minimal Precursors

Ariel H. Tomassi, María Juárez-Molina, Adriana E. Cisneros, Ana Alarcía, Francesca Orlando, Sara Toledano-Franco, Silvia Presa, Antonio Granell, Alberto Carbonell

Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2025, 01–16 https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70410

2025

Impact of Different Microbial Biostimulants and Salt Stress on the Endophyteome of the Edible Part of Lettuce and Tomato Plants

José M. Mulet, Patricia Benito, Marina Cedrán, Lynne Yenush, Rosa Porcel

Foods, 2025, 14, 3366 https://doi.org/10.3390/foods14193366

2025

Impact of Different Microbial Biostimulants and Salt Stress on the Endophytome of the Edible Part of Lettuce and Tomato Plants

José M. Mulet, Patricia Benito, Marina Celdrán, Lynne Yenush and Rosa Porcel

Foods 2025, 14, 3366

2025

Garlic essential oil nanoemulsion for sustainable management of Bemisia tabaci and phytotoxicity evaluation in four key horticultural crops

Gaetano Giuliano, Annamaria Ienco, Alberto Urbaneja, Meritzell Pérez-Hedo, Vittoria Pettianto, Valentina Coco, Giulia Giunti, Vincenzo Palmeri, Orlando Campolo

Crop Protection, 198, 107385 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2025.107385

2025

Apple DELLA Is Degraded Under Warm Temperature Conditions in Nicotiana benthamiana Leaves Through a COP1-Dependent Mechanism

Mohamad Al Bolbol, Cecilia Costiglio-Rojas, Evelyne Costes, David Alabad, Fernando Andrés

Plant Direct, 2025, 9: e70108 https://doi.org/10.1002/pd.70108

2025

Protocol for triggering plant gene silencing by viral delivery of short RNA

Arcadio García, Verónica Aragónés, Paloma Ortiz-García, José-Antonio Daròs, Fabio Pasin

STAR Protocols, 6, 104094 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2025.100494

2025

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