• A brassinosteroid functional analogue increases soybean drought resilience 

      Perez Borroto, Lucia Sandra; Guzzo, María Carla; Posada, Gisella Anabel; Peña Malavera, Andrea Natalia; Castagnaro, Atilio Pedro; Gonzalez Olmedo, Justo Lorenzo; Coll, Yamilet; Pardo, Esteban Mariano (Nature Research, 2022-07-04)
      Drought severely affects soybean productivity, challenging breeding/management strategies to increase crop resilience. Hormone-based biostimulants like brassinosteroids (BRs) modulate growth/defence trade-off, mitigating ...
    • The conserved brassinosteroid-related transcription factor BIM1a negatively regulates fruit growth in tomato 

      Mori, Kentaro; Lemaire-Chamley, Martine; Jorly, Joana; Carrari, Fernando; Conte, Mariana; Asamizu, Erika; Mizoguchi, Tsuyoshi; Ezura, Hiroshi; Rothan, Christophe (Oxford University Press, 2021-02)
      Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroid hormones that play key roles in plant development and defense. Our goal is to harness the extensive knowledge of the Arabidopsis BR signaling network to improve productivity in crop ...