• A candidate gene survey of quantitative trait loci affecting chemical composition in tomato fruit 

      Bermúdez, Luisa; Urias, Ursula; Milstein, D.; Kamenetzky, Laura; Asís, Ramón; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Van Sluys, M.A.; Carrari, Fernando; Rossi, Magdalena (Society for Experimental Biology, 2008-07)
      In tomato, numerous wild-related species have been demonstrated to be untapped sources of valuable genetic variability, including pathogen-resistance genes, nutritional, and industrial quality traits. From a collection of ...
    • A tomato tocopherol-binding protein sheds light on intracellular a-tocopherol metabolism in plants 

      Bermudez Salazar, Luisa; del Pozo, Talía; Lira, Bruno Silvestre; Godoy, Fabiana de; Boos, Irene; Romano, Cecilia; Previtali, Viola; Almeida, Juliana; Brehelin, Claire; Asis, Ramón; Quadrana, Leandro Daniel; Demarco, Diego; Alseekh, Saleh; Salinas Gamboa, Rigel; Perez-Flores, Laura; Dominguez, Pia Guadalupe; Rothan, Christophe; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Gonzalez, Maurıcio; Stocker, Achim; Hemmerle, Andreas; Clausen, Mads Hartving; Carrari, Fernando; Rossi, Magdalena (Oxford University Press, 2018-11)
      Tocopherols are non-polar compounds synthesized in the plastids, which function as major antioxidants of the plant cells and are essential in the human diet. Both the intermediates and final products of the tocopherol ...
    • Allelic differences in a vacuolar invertase affect Arabidopsis growth at early plant development 

      Coluccio Leskow, Carla; Dominguez, Pia Guadalupe; Díaz Zirpolo, José Antonio; Obata, Toshihiro; Kamenetzky, Laura; Costa, Hernán; Taboga, Oscar Alberto; Marti, Hector Ruben; Keurentjes, Joost; Sulpice, Ronan; Ishihara, Hirofumi; Stitt, Mark; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Carrari, Fernando (2016)
      Improving carbon fixation in order to enhance crop yield is a major goal in plant sciences. By quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, it has been demonstrated that a vacuolar invertase (vac-Inv) plays a key role in ...
    • Comparative proteomic and metabolomic studies between Prunus persica genotypes resistant and susceptible to Taphrina deformans suggest a molecular basis of resistance 

      Goldy, Camila; Svetaz, Laura Andrea; Bustamante, Claudia Anabel; Allegrini, Marco; Valentini, Gabriel Hugo; Drincovich, María Fabiana; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Lara, Maria Valeria (2017)
      The worldwide-distributed leaf peach curl disease is caused by the biotroph Taphrina deformans. To characterize the plant-fungus interaction, resistant and susceptible Prunus persica genotypes grown in the orchard were ...
    • Coupling virus-induced gene silencing to exogenous green fluorescence protein expression provides a highly efficient system for functional genomics in arabidopsis and across all stages of tomato fruit development 

      Quadrana, Leandro Daniel; Rodriguez, Maria Cecilia; Bermudez Salazar, Luisa; Nunes Nesi, Adriano; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Descalzo, Adriana Maria; Asis, Ramón; Rossi, Magdalena; Asurmendi, Sebastian; Carrari, Fernando (2011-07)
      Since the advent of the postgenomic era, efforts have focused on the development of rapid strategies for annotating plant genes of unknown function. Given its simplicity and rapidity, virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) ...
    • Crop metabolomics : from diagnostics to assisted breeding 

      Alseekh, Saleh; Bermudez Salazar, Luisa; De Haro, Luis Alejandro; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Carrari, Fernando (Springer, 2018-11)
      Background Until recently, plant metabolomics have provided a deep understanding on the metabolic regulation in individual plants as experimental units. The application of these techniques to agricultural systems subjected ...
    • Deciphering the metabolic pathways influencing heat and cold responses during post‐harvest physiology of peach fruit 

      Lauxmann, Martín Alexander; Borsani, Julia; Osorio, Sonia; Lombardo, Veronica Andrea; Budde, Claudio Olaf; Bustamante, Claudia Anabel; Monti, Laura Lucía; Andreo, Carlos Santiago; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Drincovich, María Fabiana; Lara, Maria Valeria (Wiley, 2014-03)
      Peaches are highly perishable and deteriorate quickly at ambient temperature. Cold storage is commonly used to prevent fruit decay; however, it affects fruit quality causing physiological disorders collectively termed ...
    • Differential lipidome remodeling during postharvest of peach varieties with different susceptibility to chilling injury 

      Bustamante, Claudia Anabel; Brotman, Yavid; Monti, Laura L.; Gabilondo, Julieta; Budde, Claudio Olaf; Lara, María Valeria; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Drincovich, María Fabiana (2018)
      Peaches ripen and deteriorate rapidly at room temperature. Therefore, refrigeration is used to slow these processes and to extend fruit market life; however, many fruits develop chilling injury (CI) during storage at low ...
    • Differential metabolic rearrangements after cold storage are correlated with chilling injury resistance of peach fruits 

      Bustamante, Claudia Anabel; Monti, Laura L.; Gabilondo, Julieta; Scossa, Federico; Valentini, Gabriel Hugo; Budde, Claudio Olaf; Lara, Maria Valeria; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Drincovich, María Fabiana (2016)
      Reconfiguration of the metabolome is a key component involved in the acclimation to cold in plants; however, few studies have been devoted to the analysis of the overall metabolite changes after cold storage of fruits prior ...
    • Exploring gene networks in two sunflower lines with contrasting leaf senescence phenotype using a system biology approach 

      Moschen, Sebastian; Marino, Johanna; Nicosia, Salvador; Higgins, Janet; Alseekh, Saleh; Astigueta, Francisco; Bengoa Luoni, Sofia Ailin; Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Blanchet, Nicolas; Langlade, Nicolas B.; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Fernandez, Paula Del Carmen; Heinz, Ruth Amelia (BMC, 2019-10)
      Background: Leaf senescence is a complex process, controlled by multiple genetic and environmental variables. In sunflower, leaf senescence is triggered abruptly following anthesis thereby limiting the capacity of plants ...
    • Galacturonosyltransferase 4 silencing alters pectin composition and carbon partitioning in tomato 

      Godoy, Fabiana de; Bermúdez, Luisa; Lira, Bruno Silvestre; Souza, Amanda Pereira de; Elbl, Paula; Demarco, Diego; Alseekh, Saleh; Insani, Ester Marina; Buckeridge, Marcos; Almeida, Juliana; Grigioni, Gabriela Maria; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Carrari, Fernando; Rossi, Magdalena (2013-04)
      Pectin is a main component of the plant cell wall and is the most complex family of polysaccharides in nature. Its composition is essential for the normal growth and morphology pattern, as demonstrated by pectin-defective ...
    • Genetic dissection of vitamin E biosynthesis in tomato 

      Almeida de Souza, Juliana Beatriz; Quadrana, Leandro Daniel; Asis, Ramón; Setta, Nathalia; Godoy, Fabiana de; Bermúdez, Luisa; Otaiza, Santiago N.; Silva, Junia V. Corrêa da; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Carrari, Fernando; Rossi, Magdalena (Society for Experimental Biology, 2011-07)
      Vegetables are critical for human health as they are a source of multiple vitamins including vitamin E (VTE). In plants, the synthesis of VTE compounds, tocopherol and tocotrienol, derives from precursors of the shikimate ...
    • Identification and characterization of metabolite quantitative trait loci in tomato leaves and comparison with those reported for fruits and seeds 

      Nunes Nesi, Adriano; Alseekh, Saleh; Oliveira Silva, Franklin Magnum de; Omranian, Nooshin; Lichtenstein, Gabriel; Mirnezhad, Mohammad; Romero González, Roman R.; Sabio Y Garcia, Julia Veronica; Conte, Mariana; Leiss, Kirsten A.; Klinkhamer, Peter G. L.; Nikoloski, Zoran; Carrari, Fernando; Fernie, Alisdair R. (Springer, 2019-04)
      Introduction: To date, most studies of natural variation and metabolite quantitative trait loci (mQTL) in tomato have focused on fruit metabolism, leaving aside the identification of genomic regions involved in the ...
    • Integrating transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis to understand natural leaf senescence in sunflower 

      Moschen, Sebastian; Gonzalez, Sergio Alberto; Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Fernandez, Paula del Carmen; Heinz, Ruth Amelia; Bengoa Luoni, Sofia Ailin; Di Rienzo, Julio A.; Caro, María del Pilar; Tohge, Takayuki; Watanabe, Mutsumi; Hollmann, Julien; García-García, Francisco; Dopazo, Joaquín; Hoefgen, Rainer; Fernie, Alisdair R. (2016)
      Leaf senescence is a complex process, which has dramatic consequences on crop yield. In sunflower, gap between potential and actual yields reveals the economic impact of senescence. Indeed, sunflower plants are incapable ...
    • Integration of transcriptomic and metabolic data reveals hub transcription factors involved in drought stress response in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) 

      Moschen, Sebastian Nicolas; Di Rienzo, Julio A.; Higgins, Janet; Tohge, Takayuki; Watanabe, Mutsumi; Gonzalez, Sergio Alberto; Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro; García-García, Francisco; Dopazo, Joaquín; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Hoefgen, Rainer; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Fernandez, Paula Del Carmen; Heinz, Ruth Amelia (2017-07)
      Drought is one of the most important environmental stresses that effects crop productivity in many agricultural regions. Sunflower is tolerant to drought conditions but the mechanisms involved in this tolerance remain ...
    • Metabolic analyses of interspecific tomato recombinant inbred lines for fruit quality improvement 

      Lopez, Mariana Gabriela; Zanor, María Inés; Pratta, Guillermo Raúl; Stegmayer, Georgina; Boggio, Silvana Beatriz; Conte, Mariana; Bermudez Salazar, Luisa; Coluccio Leskow, Carla; Rodríguez, Gustavo Rubén; Picardi, Liliana Amelia; Zorzoli, Roxana; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Milone, Diego Humberto; Asis, Ramón; Valle, Estela Marta; Carrari, Fernando (Springer, 2015-10)
      Elucidating the determinants of tomato nutritional value and fruit quality to introduce improved varieties on the international market represents a major challenge for crop biotechnology. Different strategies can be ...
    • Metabolic and miRNA profiling of TMV infected plants reveals biphasic temporal changes 

      Bazzini, Ariel Alejandro; Manacorda, Carlos Augusto; Tohge, Takayuki; Conti, Gabriela; Rodriguez, Maria Cecilia; Nunes Nesi, Adriano; Villanueva, Sofía; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Carrari, Fernando; Asurmendi, Sebastian (2011-12-12)
      Plant viral infections induce changes including gene expression and metabolic components. Identification of metabolites and microRNAs (miRNAs) differing in abundance along infection may provide a broad view of the pathways ...
    • Metabolic profiling during peach fruit development and ripening reveals the metabolic networks that underpin each developmental stage 

      Lombrado, Verónica A.; Osorio, Sonia; Borsani, Julia; Lauxmann, Martín Alexander; Bustamante, Claudia Anabel; Budde, Claudio Olaf; Andreo, Carlos Santiago; Lara, María Valeria; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Drincovich, María Fabiana (2011-12)
      Fruit from rosaceous species collectively display a great variety of flavors and textures as well as a generally high content of nutritionally beneficial metabolites. However, relatively little analysis of metabolic networks ...
    • Metabolic profiling of a range of peach fruit varieties reveals high metabolic diversity and commonalities and differences during ripening 

      Monti, Laura Lucía; Bustamante, Claudia Anabel; Osorio, Sonia; Gabilondo, Julieta; Borsani, Julia; Lauxmann, Martín Alexander; Maulion, Evangelina; Valentini, Gabriel Hugo; Budde, Claudio Olaf; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Lara, María Valeria; Drincovich, María Fabiana (2016-01-01)
      Peach (Prunus persica) fruits from different varieties display differential organoleptic and nutritional properties, characteristics related to their chemical composition. Here, chemical biodiversity of peach fruits from ...
    • Multiomics analyses reveal the roles of the ASR1 transcription factor in tomato fruits 

      Dominguez, Pia Guadalupe; Conti, Gabriela; Duffy, Tomas; Insani, Ester Marina; Alseekh, Saleh; Asurmendi, Sebastian; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Carrari, Fernando (Oxford University Press, 2021-09)
      The transcription factor ASR1 (ABA, STRESS, RIPENING 1) plays multiple roles in plant responses to abiotic stresses as well as being involved in the regulation of central metabolism in several plant species. However, despite ...