Scientific publications

BRESOV Position Paper

What do bean, broccoli and tomatoes have in common? Breeding for Resilient, Efficient and Sustainable Organic Vegetable Production (BRESOV)
European Seed, Vol. 6 Issue 1 , pp. 10-11
Online version: https://european-seed.com/2019/02/breeding-for-resilient-efficient-and-sustainable-organic-vegetable-production-bresov/
Link to European Seed Magazine: https://european-seed.com/docs/books/volume-6/issue-1/?page=1

2022

Carmen García-Fernández, Maria Jurado, Ana Campa, Creola Brezeanu, Valérie Geffroy, Elena Bitocchi, Roberto Papa and Juan Jose Ferreira
A Core Set of Snap Bean Genotypes Established by Phenotyping a Large Panel Collected in Europe
Plants 2022, 11(5), 577; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11050577
Fonseca, R., Capel, C., Yuste-Lisbona, F., Quispe, J., Gómez-Martín, C., Lebrón, R., Hackenberg, M., Oliver, J., Angosto, T., Lozano, R., Capel, J.
Functional characterization of the tomato HAIRPLUS gene reveals the implication of the epigenome in the control of glandular trichome formation
Horticulture Research, Volume 9, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhab015
Giuseppe Malgioglio, Giulio Flavio Rizzo, Sebastian Nigro, Vincent Lefebvre du Prey, Joelle Herforth-Rahmé, Vittoria Catara and Ferdinando Branca
Plant-Microbe Interaction in Sustainable Agriculture: The Factors That May Influence the Efficacy of PGPM Application
Sustainability 2022, 14, 2253. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042253

2021

Manon M S Richard, Ariane Gratias, Juan C Alvarez Diaz, Vincent Thareau, Stéphanie Pflieger, Chouaib Meziadi, Sophie Blanchet, William Marande, Elena Bitocchi, Roberto Papa, Phillip N Miklas, Valérie Geffroy
A common bean truncated CRINKLY4 kinase controls gene-for-gene resistance to the fungus Colletotrichum lindemuthianum
Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 72, Issue 10, pp.3569–3581, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab082
Breeding for Nutritional and Organoleptic Quality in Vegetable Crops: The Case of Tomato and Cauliflower
Breeding for Nutritional and Organoleptic Quality in Vegetable Crops: The Case of Tomato and Cauliflower
Agriculture 2021, 11(7), 606; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11070606
C Garcia, A Campa, JJ Ferreira
Dissecting the genetic control of seed coat color in a RIL population of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
Theor Appl Genet 134, 3687–3698 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-021-03922-y
Lu Lu, Sokrat G. Monakhos, Yong Pyo Lim and So Young Yi
Early Defense Mechanisms of Brassica oleracea in Response to Attack by Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris
Plants 2021, 10(12), 2705; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10122705
Maria Concetta Di Bella,Stefania Toscano,Donata Arena ,Diego A. Moreno ,Daniela Romano and Ferdinando Branca
Effects of Growing Cycle and Genotype on the Morphometric Properties and Glucosinolates Amount and Profile of Sprouts, Microgreens and Baby Leaves of Broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. var. italica Plenck) and Kale (B. oleracea L. var. acephala DC.)
Agronomy 2021, 11(9), 1685; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11091685
Yuste-Lisbona FJ, Jiménez-Gómez JM, Capel C, Lozano R.
Effective Mapping by Sequencing to Isolate Causal Mutations in the Tomato Genome
Methods in Molecular Biology - Springer
Stefania Toscano ,Antonio Ferrante ,Ferdinando Branca and Daniela Romano
Enhancing the Quality of Two Species of Baby Leaves Sprayed with Moringa Leaf Extract as Biostimulant
Agronomy 2021, 11(7), 1399; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11071399
Pasquale Tripodi, Salvador Soler, Gabriele Campanelli, Maria Jose Diez, Salvatore Esposito, Sara Sestili, Maria Figàs, Fabrizio Leteo, Cristina Casanova, Cristiano Platani, Elena Soler, Aldo Bertone, Leandro Pereira-Dias, Daniela Palma, Resurrección Burguet, Andrea Pepe, Elena Rosa-Martínez, Jaime Prohens, and Teodoro Cardi
Genome wide association mapping for agronomic, fruit quality, and root architectural traits in tomato under organic farming conditions
Plant Biol 21, 481 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-021-03271-4
Valentina Picchi , Roberto Lo Scalzo , Aldo Tava , Filippo Doria , Sergio Argento, Stefania Toscano, Simone Treccarichi and Ferdinando Branca
Phytochemical Characterization and In Vitro Antioxidant Properties of Four Brassica Wild Species from Italy
Molecules. 2020;25(15):3495. doi: 10.3390/molecules25153495.
Chouaïb Meziadi, Julie Lintz, Masoud Naderpour, Charlotte Gautier, Sophie Blanchet, Alicia Noly, Ariane Gratias-Weill, Valérie Geffroy and Stéphanie Pﬂieger
R-BPMV-Mediated Resistance to Bean pod mottle virus in Phaseolus vulgaris L. Is Heat-Stable but Elevated Temperatures Boost Viral Infection in Susceptible Genotypes
Viruses 2021, 13(7), 1239; https://doi.org/10.3390/v13071239
Simone Treccarichi, Cornelia Di Gaetano,Fulvio Di Stefano,Mauro Gasparini and Ferdinando Branca
Using Simple Sequence Repeats in 9 Brassica Complex Species to Assess Hypertrophic Curd Induction
Agriculture 2021, 11(7), 622; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11070622
Elena Rosa-Martínez, Ana M. Adalid, Luis E. Alvarado, Resurrección Burguet, María D. García-Martínez, Leandro Pereira-Dias, Cristina Casanova, Elena Soler, María R. Figàs, Mariola Plazas, Jaime Prohens and Salvador Soler
Variation for Composition and Quality in a Collection of the Resilient Mediterranean ‘de penjar’ Long Shelf-Life Tomato Under High and Low N Fertilization Levels
Front. Plant Sci., 07 April 2021, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.633957

2020

Mary-Rus Martínez-Cuenca, Leandro Pereira-Dias, Salvador Soler, Lidia López-Serrano, David Alonso, Ángeles Calatayud, and María José Díez
Adaptation to water and salt stresses of Solanum pimpinellifolium and Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme
Agronomy 10(8), 2020, Article no. 1169, DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10081169
Salvatore Esposito, Domenico Carputo, Teodoro Cardi, Pasquale Tripodi
Applications and Trends of Machine Learning in Genomics and Phenomics for Next-Generation Breeding
Plants 9(1), Article no. 34, DOI: 10.3390/plants9010034
Salvatore Esposito, Teodoro Cardi, Gabriele Campanelli, Sara Sestili, María José Diez, Salvador Soler, Jaime Prohens, Pasquale Tripodi
ddRAD sequencing-based genotyping for population structure analysis in cultivated tomato provides new insights into the genomic diversity of Mediterranean ‘da serbo’ type long shelf-life germplasm
Horticulture Research 7, Article no. 134, 2020, pp. 134, DOI: 10.1038/s41438-020-00353-6
Yuste-Lisbona, F. J., Fernández-Lozano, A., Pineda, B., Bretones, S., Ortíz-Atienza, A., García-Sogo, B., Müller, N. A., Angosto, T., Capel, J., Moreno, V., Jiménez-Gómez, J. M., & Lozano, R.
ENO regulates tomato fruit size through the floral meristem development network
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1913688117
Pietro Gramazio, Leandro Pereira-Dias, Santiago Vilanova, Jaime Prohens, Salvador Soler, Javier Esteras, Alfonso Garmendia, María José Díez
Morphoagronomic characterization and whole genome resequencing of eight highly diverse wild and weedy S. pimpinellifolium and S. lycopersicum var. cerasiforme accessions used for the first interspecific tomato MAGIC population
Horticulture Research 7, 2020, Article number: 174
Maria Concetta Di Bella, Agnieszka Niklas, Stefania Toscano, Valentina Picchi, Daniela Romano, Roberto Lo Scalzo and Ferdinando Branca
Morphometric Characteristics, Polyphenols and Ascorbic Acid Variation in Brassica oleracea L. Novel Foods: Sprouts, Microgreens and Baby Leaves
Agronomy 10(6), Article no. 782, 2020, DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10060782
Dorra Sdouga, Ferdinando Branca, Souhir Kabtni, Maria Concetta Di Bella ,Neila Trifi-Farah and Sonia Marghali
Morphological Traits and Phenolic Compounds in Tunisian Wild Populations and Cultivated Varieties of Portulaca oleracea L.
Agronomy 2020, 10(7), 948; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10070948
Valentina Picchi,Roberto Lo Scalzo,Aldo Tava,Filippo Doria,Sergio Argento,Stefania Toscano,Simone Treccarichi and Ferdinando Branca
Phytochemical Characterization and In Vitro Antioxidant Properties of Four Brassica Wild Species from Italy
Molecules 25(15), 2020, Article no. 3495, DOI: 10.3390/molecules25153495
Valerio Di Vittori, Elena Bitocchi, Monica Rodriguez, Saleh Alseekh, Elisa Bellucci, Laura Nanni, Tania Gioia, Stefania Marzario, Giuseppina Logozzo, Marzia Rossato, Concetta De Quattro, Maria L. Murgia, Juan José Ferreira, Ana Campa, Chunming Xu, Fabio Fiorani, Arun Sampathkumar, Anja Fröhlich, Giovanna Attene, Massimo Delledonne, Björn Usadel, Alisdair R. Fernie, Domenico Rau, Roberto Papa*
Pod indehiscence in common bean is associated with the fine regulation of PvMYB26
Journal of Experimental Botany, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa553
Micol-Ponce R, García-Alcázar M, Capel C, Yuste-Lisbona FJ, Pineda B, Atarés A, García-Sogo B, Capel J, Moreno V, Lozano R.
The Tomato SlVIPP1 Gene Is Required for Plant Survival Through the Proper Development of Chloroplast Thylakoid Membrane
Frontiers in Plant Science DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01305

2019

Valerio Di Vittori, Tania Gioia, Monica Rodriguez, Elisa Bellucci, Elena Bitocchi, Laura Nanni, Giovanna Attene, Domenico Rau and Roberto Papa
Convergent Evolution of the Seed Shattering Trait
Genes 2019, 10(1), 68, DOI: 10.3390/genes10010068
Huifang Yu, Jiansheng Wang, Zhenqing Zhao, Xiaoguang Sheng, Yusen Shen, Ferdinando Branca and Honghui Gu*
Construction of a High-Density Genetic Map and Identification of Loci Related to Hollow Stem Trait in Broccoli (Brassic oleracea L. italica)
Front. Plant Sci. 10:45. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00045
Huifang Yu, Jiansheng Wang, Xiaoguang Sheng, Zhenqing Zhao, Yusen Shen, Ferdinando Branca, Honghui Gu
Construction of a high-density genetic map and identification of loci controlling purple sepal trait of flower head in Brassica oleracea L. italica
BMC Plant Biol 19, 228 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-1831-x
Argento S., Melilli M.G., Branca F.
Enhancing Greenhouse Tomato-Crop Productivity by Using Brassica macrocarpa Guss. Leaves for Controlling Root-Knot Nematodes
Agronomy 2019, 9(12). Pp.820, DOI: 10.3390/agronomy9120820
Maria R. Figàs, Jaime Prohens, María J. Díez, Salvador Soler
Recovering and enhancing the local tomatoes of the Vall d’Albaida, an inland district in the region of València (Spain)
Landraces (4), pp. 24-27, ISSN: 2281-2067

2018

Beacham, A. M., Hand, P., Barker, G. C., Denby, K. J., Teakle, G. R., Walley, P. G., & Monaghan, J. M.
Addressing the Threat of Climate Change to Agriculture Requires Improving Crop Resilience to Short-Term Abiotic Stress
Outlook on Agriculture, 47(4), 270–276, DOI: 10.1177/0030727018807722
Link to repository: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3028734/
Figàs MR, Prohens J, Raigón MD, Pereira-Dias L, Casanova C, García-Martínez MD, Rosa E, Soler E, Plazas M and Soler S
Insights into the Adaptation to Greenhouse Cultivation of the Traditional Mediterranean Long Shelf-Life Tomato Carrying the alc Mutation: A Multi-Trait Comparison of Landraces, Selections and Hybrids in Open Field and Greenhouse
Frontiers in Plant Science 9: 1774, DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01774
M.J. Díez, J. Prohens, A. Granell
Les varietats tradicionals de tomàquet de la conca mediterrània: origen i diversitat cultivada actualment
Dossier Tècnic Varietats Vegetals Tradicionals Catalanes: Tomàquet de Penjar (94), 3-8, ISSN: 1699-5465
Figàs, M.R.; Prohens, J.; Soler, S.
Recuperant les Tomates Tradicionals de la Vall D’Albaida
Almaig (34), ISSN: 1139-2487