Phil Jackson

  • Nelson C. Soares, Rita Francisco, Jesus Maria Vielba, Cândido Pinto Ricardo and Phil A. Jackson (2009). Associating wound-related changes in the leaf apoplast proteome of Medicago with early steps in a ROS signalling pathway. J. Proteome Res. 8: 2298–2309.
  • Nelson C. Soares, Rita Francisco, Cândido Pinto Ricardo and Phil A. Jackson (2007). Proteomics of ionically bound and soluble extracellular proteins in Medicago truncatula leaves. Proteomics 7: 2070-2082.
  • Riberio MJ, Silva Pereira C, Soares N, Viera AM, Feijó JA and Jackson PA (2006). The contribution of extensin network formation to peroxide-mediated increases in cell wall resistance to fungal lytic enzymes. J. Expt. Bot. 57: 2025 - 2035.

Manuela Chaves

  • Chaves MM, Zarrouk O, Francisco R, Costa JM, Santos T, Regalado AP, Rodrigues ML, Lopes CM. (2010) Grapevine and berry development under deficit irrigation- Hints from physiological and molecular data. Annals of Botany (invited review, in press).
  • Cerasoli S, McGuire MA, Faria J,  Mourato M, Schmidt M, Pereira J S, Chaves MM, Teskey RO (2009) CO2 efflux, CO2 concentration and photosynthetic refixation in stems of Eucalyptus globulus (Labill.). Journal of Experimental Botany 60, 99-105.
  • Chaves I, Alves M, Carrilho D, Duque-Magalhães MC, Ricardo CP, Regalado A (2010) ‘HSP60 and HSP70 resist proteolysis during PCD induced in tobacco BY-2 cells by (β-D-galactosyl) 3Yariv reagent.’ Biologia Plantarum (in press).
  • Costa e Silva F, Shvaleva A, Broetto F, Ortuño M.F., Rodrigues ML, Almeida MH, Chaves MM, Pereira JS (2009) Acclimation to short-term low temperatures in two Eucalyptus globulus clones with contrasting drought resistance. Tree Physiology 29, 77–86.
  • Chaves, M.M., Flexas J, Pinheiro C 2009 Photosynthesis under drought and salt Stress: Regulation mechanisms from whole plant to cell. Annals of Botany 103, 551-560.

Cândido Pinto Ricardo

  • Alves M, Chaves I, Carrilho D, Veloso M, Ricardo, CP. (2010) "Detection of novel trypsin inhibitors in cotyledons of Phaseolus vulgaris.” Journal of Plant Physiology, 167: 848–854.
  • Felisberto-Rodrigues C, Ribeiro IC, Veloso M, Ricardo CP, Pinheiro C. (2010) "Germination under aseptic conditions of different ecotypes of wild beet (Beta vulgaris L. ssp maritima)”. Seed Science and Technology, 38, 517-521
  • Pinheiro C, Baeta JP, Pereira AM, Domingues H, Ricardo CP. (2010) "Diversity of seed mineral content in Phaseolus vulgaris L. germplasm”. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 23, 319–325.
  • Carrilho, D.M., Duarte, I.C., Francisco, R., Ricardo, C.P.P. and Duque-Magalhães, M.C. (2009) Discovery of novel plant peptides as strong inhibitors of metalloproteinases. Protein and Peptide Letters, 16, 543-551.
  • Chaves, I., Pinheiro, C., Paiva, J.A.P., Planchon, S., Sergeant, K., Renaut, J., Graça, J.A., Costa, G., Coelho, A.V., Ricardo, C.P.P. (2009) Proteomic evaluation of wound-healing processes in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tuber tissue. Proteomics, 9, 4154-4175.

Rita Abranches

  • Gonzalez-Melendi P, Pires AS and Abranches R. (2009). Cell line-dependent sorting of recombinant phytase in cell cultures of Medicago truncatula. Functional Plant Biology 36, 431-441. DOI: 10.1071/FP08260
  • Pires AS, Cabral MG, Fevereiro P, Stoger E and Abranches R. (2008). High levels of stable phytase accumulate in the culture medium of transgenic Medicago truncatula cell suspension cultures. Biotechnology Journal 3, 916-923. DOI 10.1002/biot.200800044
  • Abranches, R., Arcalis, E., Marcel, S., Altmann, F., Ribeiro-Pedro, M., Rodriguez, J. and Stoger, E. (2008). Functional specialization of Medicago truncatula leaves and seeds does not affect the subcellular localization of a recombinant protein. Planta 227, 649-58. DOI 10.1007/s00425-007-0647-3.
  • Santos, A.P.; Wegel, E.; Allen, G.C.; Thompson, W.F.; Stoger E.; Shaw, P. and Abranches, R. (2006). In situ methods to localize transgenes and transcripts in interphase nuclei: a tool for transgenic plant research. Plant Methods 2006, 2:18 DOI 10.1186/1746-4811-2-18
  • Abranches, R.; Marcel, S.; Arcalis, E.; Altmann, F.; Fevereiro, P. and Stoger, E. (2005). Plants as bioreactors: a comparative study suggests that Medicago truncatula is a promising production system. Journal of Biotechnology 120, 121-134. doi:10.1016/j.jbiotec.2005.04.026

Jorge Almeida

  • Almeida, J., Rocheta, M. and Galego, L. (1997). Genetic control of flower shape in Antirrhinum majus. Development 124: 1387-1392.
  • Galego, L. and Almeida, J. (2002). Role of DIVARICATA in the control of dorsoventral asymmetry in Antirrhinum flowers. Genes Dev. 16, 880-891.
  • Galego, L. and Almeida, J. (2007). Molecular genetic basis of flower colour variegation in Linaria. Genetical Research 89, 129-134.

Ricardo Boavida Ferreira

  • Fortalezas, S., Tavares L., Pimpão R., Tyagi, M., Pontes, V., Alves, P.M., McDougall, G., Stewart, D., Ferreira, R.B. and Santos, C.N. (2010) Antioxidant properties and neuroprotective capacity of strawberry tree fruit (Arbutus unedo). Nutrients, 2 : 214-229;
  • Tavares, L.; Carrilho, D.; Tyagi, M.; Barata, D.; Serra, A.T.; Duarte, C.M.M.; Duarte, R.O.; Feliciano, R.P.; Bronze, M.R.; Chicau, P.; Espírito-Santo, M.D.; Ferreira, R.B.; dos Santos, C.N. (2010). Antioxidant capacity of Macaronesian traditional medicinal plants. Molecules, 15: 2576-2592.
  • Tavares L, Fortalezas S, Carrilho D, McDougall GJ, Stewart D, Ferreira RB, Santos CN (2010) "Antioxidant and antiproliferative properties of strawberry tree tissues”, J Berry Research, 1:3-12.
    Monteiro, S., Freitas, R., Rajasekhar. B.T., Teixeira, A.R. e Ferreira, R.B. (2010) The unique biosynthetic route from Lupinus β-conglutin gene to blad. PLoS ONE 5(1): e8542.
  • Batista,L., Monteiro,S., Loureiro, V.B., Teixeira, A.R. and Ferreira, R.B. (2009) The complexity of protein haze formation in wines. Food Chemistry, 112 : 169-177.

Célia Miguel

  • Marum L, Loureiro J, Rodriguez E, Santos C, Oliveira MM, Miguel CM (2009) Flow cytometric and morphological analysis of Pinus pinaster somatic embryogenesis. Journal of Biotechnology 143: 288-295.
  • Marum L, Rocheta M, Maroco J, Oliveira MM, Miguel CM (2009) Analysis of genetic stability at SSR loci during somatic embryogenesis in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster). Plant Cell Reports 28: 673-682.
  • Lorenz WW, Yu YS, Simões M, Dean JFD (2009). Processing the Loblolly Pine PtGen2 cDNA Microarray. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 25. http://www.jove.com/index/details.stp?id=1182, doi: 10.3791/1182
  • Miguel CM, Simões M, Oliveira MM, Rocheta M. (2008) Envelope-like retrotransposons in the plant kingdom: evidence of their presence in gymnosperms (Pinus pinaster). Journal of Molecular Evolution 67:517–525.
  • Gonçalves S., Cairney J., Pérez Rodríguez M., Cánovas F., Oliveira M.M., Miguel C.M. (2007) PpRab1, a Rab GTPase from maritime pine is differentially expressed during embryogenesis. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 278: 273–282.

Margarida Oliveira

  • Lourenço, T., Saibo, N., Batista, R., Pinto Ricardo, C., Oliveira, M. M (2010) Inducible and constitutive expression of HvCBF4 in rice leads to differential gene expression and drought tolerance. Biologia Plantarum (in press)
  • Santos A.P., Ferreira L., Maroco J., Oliveira M.M. (2010) Abiotic stresses induced remodeling of ribosomal chromatin in rice. Cytogenetic and Genome Research (in press).
  • Saibo, N.J.M., Lourenço, T., Oliveira, M.M. (2009) Transcription factors and regulation of photosynthetic and related metabolism under environmental stresses. Annals of Botany, 103: 609-623
  • Santos AM, Oliver MJ, Sánchez AM, Payton PR, Gomes JP, Miguel CM, Oliveira MM (2009) An integrated strategy to identify key genes in almond adventitious shoot regeneration. J. Exp. Bot. 60 (14): 4159-4173.
  • Batista R, Saibo N, Lourenço T, Oliveira MM. (2008). Microarray analyses reveal that plant mutagenesis may induce more transcriptomic changes than transgene insertion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(9): 3640–3645.

Andreas Bohn

  • Carvalho AL, Cardoso FS, Bohn A, Neves AR, Santos H 2011. Engineering trehalose synthesis in Lactococcus lactis for improved stress tolerance. Applied Environ Microbiol 77: 4189-4199. doi:10.1128/AEM.02922-10
  • Bohn A. 2009. Integrative computational approaches to complex ecophysiological systems. In: Lüttge U, Osmond B, Rascher U, Schurr U, von Caemmerer S, Walter A (eds.) Imaging and Integrating Heterogeneity of Plant Functions: Functional Diversity from Cells to the Biosphere. Nova Acta Leopoldina 96 (357): 175-192
  • Bohn A, García-Ojalvo J. 2008. Synchronization of coupled biological oscillators under spatially heterogeneous environmental forcing. J Theor Biol 250: 37-47. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.09.036