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Universitat de Girona: Girona, Catalunya, ES

2010-02-16 to present | Associated professor (Biology)
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Bellaterra, Catalunya, ES

1993-01-21 to 1996-12-31 | PhD
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Funding (1)

Genética funcional del corcho para revelar la modificación y regulación de la pared celular suberificada

2020-06 to 2024-05 | Grant
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Madrid, ES)
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PID2019-110330GB-C21

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Works (30)

A Functional Exodermal Suberin is Key for Plant Nutrition and Growth in Potato

2023-09-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Dolors Company-Arumí; Carlota Montells; Mònica Iglesias; Eva Marguí; Dolors Verdaguer; Katarina Vogel-Mikus; Mitja Kelemen; Mercè Figueras; Enriqueta Anticó; Olga Serra
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The Tomato Feruloyl Transferase FHT Promoter Is an Accurate Identifier of Early Development and Stress-Induced Suberization

Plants
2023-05-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Anurag Kashyap; Álvaro Jiménez-Jiménez; Mercè Figueras; Olga Serra; Marc Valls; Nuria S. Coll
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Rhytidome- and cork-type barks of holm oak, cork oak and their hybrids highlight processes leading to cork formation

2023-03-31 | Preprint
Contributors: Iker Armendariz; Unai López de Heredia; Marçal Soler; Adrià Puigdemont; Maria Mercè Ruiz; Patricia Jové; Álvaro Soto; Olga Serra; Mercè Figueras
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Correction: Silencing of StRIK in potato suggests a role in periderm related to RNA processing and stress

BMC Plant Biology
2022-12-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Pau Boher; Marçal Soler; Sandra Fernández-Piñán; Xènia Torrent; Sebastian Y. Müller; Krystyna A. Kelly; Olga Serra; Mercè Figueras
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New Phytologist
2022-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Anurag Kashyap; Álvaro Luis Jiménez‐Jiménez; Weiqi Zhang; Montserrat Capellades; Sumithra Srinivasan; Anna Laromaine; Olga Serra; Mercè Figueras; Jorge Rencoret; Ana Gutiérrez et al.
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Induced ligno‐suberin vascular coating and tyramine‐derived hydroxycinnamic acid amides restrict Ralstonia solanacearum colonization in resistant tomato

New Phytologist
2022-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Anurag Kashyap; Álvaro Luis Jiménez‐Jiménez; Weiqi Zhang; Montserrat Capellades; Sumithra Srinivasan; Anna Laromaine; Olga Serra; Mercè Figueras; Jorge Rencoret; Ana Gutiérrez et al.
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Transcriptomic analysis of cork during seasonal growth highlights regulatory and developmental processes from phellogen to phellem formation

Scientific Reports
2021-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
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Silencing of StRIK in potato suggests a role in periderm related to RNA processing and stress

BMC Plant Biology
2021-09-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Pau Boher; Marçal Soler; Sandra Fernández-Piñán; Xènia Torrent; Sebastian Y. Müller; Krystyna A. Kelly; Olga Serra; Mercè Figueras
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Induced ligno-suberin vascular coating and tyramine-derived hydroxycinnamic acid amides restrict Ralstonia solanacearum colonization in resistant tomato roots

2021-06-17 | Other
Contributors: Anurag Kashyap; Montserrat Capellades; Weiqi Zhang; Sumithra Srinivasan; Anna Laromaine; Olga Serra; Mercè Figueras; Jorge Rencoret; Ana Gutiérrez; Marc Valls et al.
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Oxidosqualene cyclases involved in the biosynthesis of triterpenoids in Quercus suber cork

Scientific Reports
2020-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
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Silencing against the conserved NAC domain of the potato StNAC103 reveals new NAC candidates to repress the suberin associated waxes in phellem

Plant Science
2020-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0168-9452
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Agrobacterium rhizogenes-Mediated Transformation of Potato and the Promoter Activity of a Suberin Gene by GUS Staining.

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
2019-03-29 | Journal article
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A comparative transcriptomic approach to understanding the formation of cork

Plant Molecular Biology
2018-01-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Pau Boher; Marçal Soler; Anna Sánchez; Claire Hoede; Céline Noirot; Jorge Almiro Pinto Paiva; Olga Serra; Mercè Figueras
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Potato native and wound periderms are differently affected by down-regulation of FHT, a suberin feruloyl transferase.

Phytochemistry
2017-12-27 | Journal article
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Silencing of the potatoStNAC103gene enhances the accumulation of suberin polyester and associated wax in tuber skin

Journal of Experimental Botany
2016-10-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Roger Verdaguer; Marçal Soler; Olga Serra; Aïda Garrote; Sandra Fernández; Dolors Company-Arumí; Enriqueta Anticó; Marisa Molinas; Mercè Figueras
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The Identification and Quantification of Suberin Monomers of Root and Tuber Periderm from Potato (Solanum tuberosum) as Fatty Acyl tert-Butyldimethylsilyl Derivatives.

2016-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Company-Arumí D; Figueras M; Salvadó V; Molinas M; Serra O; Anticó E
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Deconstructing a plant macromolecular assembly: chemical architecture, molecular flexibility, and mechanical performance of natural and engineered potato suberins.

2014-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Serra O; Chatterjee S; Figueras M; Molinas M; Stark RE
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The potato suberin feruloyl transferase FHT which accumulates in the phellogen is induced by wounding and regulated by abscisic and salicylic acids.

2013-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Boher P; Serra O; Soler M; Molinas M; Figueras M
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A potato skin SSH library yields new candidate genes for suberin biosynthesis and periderm formation.

2011-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Soler M; Serra O; Fluch S; Molinas M; Figueras M
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Unraveling ferulate role in suberin and periderm biology by reverse genetics.

2010-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Serra O; Figueras M; Franke R; Prat S; Molinas M
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A feruloyl transferase involved in the biosynthesis of suberin and suberin-associated wax is required for maturation and sealing properties of potato periderm.

2010-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Serra O; Hohn C; Franke R; Prat S; Molinas M; Figueras M
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Silencing of StKCS6 in potato periderm leads to reduced chain lengths of suberin and wax compounds and increased peridermal transpiration.

2009 | Journal article
Contributors: Serra O; Soler M; Hohn C; Franke R; Schreiber L; Prat S; Molinas M; Figueras M
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CYP86A33-targeted gene silencing in potato tuber alters suberin composition, distorts suberin lamellae, and impairs the periderm's water barrier function.

2009-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Serra O; Soler M; Hohn C; Sauveplane V; Pinot F; Franke R; Schreiber L; Prat S; Molinas M; Figueras M
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Seasonal variation in transcript abundance in cork tissue analyzed by real time RT-PCR.

2008-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Soler M; Serra O; Molinas M; García-Berthou E; Caritat A; Figueras M
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A genomic approach to suberin biosynthesis and cork differentiation.

2007-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Soler M; Serra O; Molinas M; Huguet G; Fluch S; Figueras M
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Protein kinase CK2 modulates developmental functions of the abscisic acid responsive protein Rab17 from maize.

2004-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Riera M; Figueras M; López C; Goday A; Pagès M
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Phosphorylation mediates the nuclear targeting of the maize Rab17 protein.

1998-03 | Journal article
PMID: 9681011
Contributors: Jensen AB; Goday A; Figueras M; Jessop AC; Pagès M
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Drought signal transduction in plants

Plant Growth Regulation
1996 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-0030471319

Contributors: Jensen, A.B.; Busk, P.K.; Figueras, M.; Albà, M.M.; Peracchia, G.; Messeguer, R.; Goday, A.; Pagès, M.
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Regulation of the rab17 gene in ABA-deficient and ABA-insensitive viviparous mutants of maize.

Biochemical and Cellular Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance in Plants
1994 | Book chapter
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IND20458414

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The maize abscisic acid-responsive protein Rab17 is located in the nucleus and interacts with nuclear localization signals.

1994-03 | Journal article
PMID: 8180497
Contributors: Goday A; Jensen AB; Culiáñez-Macià FA; Mar Albà M; Figueras M; Serratosa J; Torrent M; Pagès M
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