Papers
- Antonio Chaves-Sanjuan, Nerina
Gnesutta, Andrea Gobbini, Damiano Martignago, Andrea Bernardini, Fabio Fornara,
Roberto Mantovani and Marco Nardini Structural
determinants for NF-Y subunit organization and NF-Y/DNA association in plants. The Plant Journal
2020.
- Martina Cerise, Francesca Giaume, Mary Galli, Bahman
Khahani, Jérémy Lucas, Federico Podico, Elahe Tavakol, Francois Parcy, Andrea
Gallavotti, Vittoria Brambilla and Fabio Fornara OsFD4
promotes the rice floral transition via florigen activation complex formation
in the shoot apical meristem. New Phytologist 2020.
- Bahman Khahani, Elahe Tavakol, Vahid
Shariati and Fabio Fornara Genome wide screening and comparative genome
alysis for Meta-QTLs, ortho-MQTLs and candidate genes controlling yield and
yield-related traits in rice. BMC Genomics 2020.
- Tenai Eguen, Jorge Gomez Ariza, Vittoria Brambilla, Bin Sun, Kaushal Kumar Bhati, Fabio Fornara and Stephan Wenkel Control of flowering in rice through synthetic microProteins. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 2019.
- Jorge Gómez-Ariza, Vittoria Brambilla V, Giulio Vicentini, Martina Landini, Martina Cerise, Esther Carrera, Roshi Shrestha, Remo Chiozzotto, Francesca Galbiati, Elisabetta Caporali, Isabel López Díaz and Fabio Fornara A transcription factor coordinating internode elongation and photoperiodic signals in rice. Nature Plants 2019. Cover paper
- Nerina Gnesutta, Roberto Mantovani and Fabio Fornara Plant Flowering: Imposing DNA Specificity on Histone-Fold Subunits. Trends in Plant Science 2018. Cover paper
- Vittoria Brambilla, Damiano Martignago, Daniela Goretti, Martina Cerise, Marc Somssich, Matteo de Rosa, Francesca Galbiati, Roshi Shrestha, Federico Lazzaro, Ruediger Simon and Fabio Fornara Antagonistic Transcription Factor Complexes Modulate the Floral Transition in Rice. The Plant Cell 2017.
- Vittoria Brambilla, Jorge Gómez-Ariza, Martina Cerise and Fabio Fornara The Importance of Being on Time: Regulatory Networks Controlling Photoperiodic Flowering in Cereals. Frontiers in Plant Science 2017.
- Daniela Goretti, Damiano Martignago, Martina Landini, Vittoria Brambilla, Jorge Gómez-Ariza, Nerina Gnesutta, Francesca Galbiati, Silvio Collani, Hiroki Takagi, Ryohei Terauchi, Roberto Mantovani and Fabio Fornara Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms limit Heading Date 1 (Hd1) function to adapt rice to high latitudes. PLoS Genetics 2017.
- Vittoria Brambilla and Fabio Fornara Y flowering? Regulation and activity of CONSTANS and CCT-domain proteins in Arabidopsis and crop species. Biochim. Biophys. Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms 2017.
- Arun Srinivasan, José Jimenez-Gomez, Fabio Fornara, Wim Soppe and Vittoria Brambilla Alternative splicing enhances transcriptome complexity of desiccating seeds. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 2016.
- Francesca Galbiati, Remo Chiozzotto, Franca Locatelli, Alberto Spada, Annamaria Genga, and Fabio Fornara Hd3a, RFT1 and Ehd1 integrate photoperiodic and
drought stress signals to delay the floral transition in rice. Plant Cell and Environment 2016.
- Liron Sarid-Krebs, Kishore C. S. Panigrahi, Fabio Fornara, Yasuyuki Takahashi, Ryosuke Hayama, Seonghoe Jang, Vicky Tilmes, Federico Valverde and George Coupland Phosphorylation of CONSTANS and its COP1-dependent degradation during photoperiodic flowering of Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal 2015.
- Julieta Mateos, Pedro Madrigal, Kenichi Tsuda, René Richter, Vimal Rawat, Maida Romera-Branchat, Fabio Fornara, Paweł Krajewski and George Coupland Combinatorial activities of SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE and FLOWERING LOCUS C define distinct modes of flowering regulation in Arabidopsis. Genome Biology 2015.
- Jorge Gomez-Ariza, Francesca
Galbiati, Daniela Goretti, Vittoria Brambilla, Roshi Shrestha, Andrea Pappolla,
Brigitte Courtois and Fabio Fornara Loss of floral repressor
function adapts rice to higher latitudes in Europe. Journal of Experimental Botany 2015. Cover Paper
- Fabio Fornara, Amaury de Montaigu, Alfredo Sanchez-Villareal, Yasuyuki Takahashi, Emiel Ver Loren van Themaat, Bruno Huettel, Seth Davis and George Coupland The GI-CDF module of Arabidopsis affects freezing tolerance and growth as well as flowering. The Plant Journal 2015.
- Fernando Andres, Aimone Porri, Stefano Torti, Julieta
Mateos, Maida Romera-Branchat, Jose Luis Garcia-Martinez, Fabio Fornara,
Veronica Gregis, Martin M. Kater and George Coupland SHORT VEGETATIVE
PHASE reduces gibberellin biosynthesis at the Arabidopsis shoot apex to regulate
the floral transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of the
United States of America 2014.
- Roshi Shrestha, Jorge Gomez-Ariza, Vittoria Brambilla and
Fabio Fornara Molecular control of seasonal flowering in rice,
Arabidopsis and temperate cereals. Annals of Botany 2014.
- Vittoria Brambilla and Fabio Fornara Molecular
Control of Flowering in Response to Day Length in Rice. Journal of
Integrative Plant Biology 2013.
- Stefano Torti and Fabio Fornara AGL24 acts in
concert with SOC1 and FUL during Arabidopsis floral transition. Plant
Signaling and Behavior 2012.
- Jorge Gomez-Ariza and Fabio
Fornara Photoperiodic control of flowering in Arabidopsis. Acta
Horticulturae 2012.
- Stefano Torti, Fabio Fornara, Coral Vincent, Fernando
Andres, Karl Nordstrom, Ulrike Goebel, Daniela Knoll, Heiko Schoof, and George
Coupland Analysis of the Arabidopsis Shoot Meristem Transcriptome
during Floral Transition Identifies Distinct Regulatory Patterns and a
Leucine-Rich Repeat Protein That Promotes Flowering. The Plant Cell 2012.
- Eleonora
Cominelli, Massimo Galbiati, Alessandra Albertini, Fabio Fornara, Lucio Conti,
George Coupland and Chiara Tonelli DOF-binding sites additively
contribute to guard cell-specificity of AtMYB60 promoter. BMC Plant Biology 2011.
- Fabio Fornara, Amaury de Montaigu and George Coupland Snapshot:
Control of Flowering in Arabidopsis. Cell 2010.
- Fabio Fornara and George Coupland Plant phase
transitions make a SLPash. Cell 2009.
- Fabio Fornara, Kishore Panigrahi, Lionel Gissot,
Nicolas Sauerbrunn, Mark Ruehl and George Coupland Arabidopsis DOF transcription
factors act redundantly to reduce CONSTANS expression and are essential for a
photoperiodic flowering response. Developmental Cell 2009.
- Fabio Fornara, Veronica Gregis, Nilla Pelucchi, Lucia
Colombo and Martin Kater The rice StMADS11-like genes OsMADS22 and
OsMADS47 cause floral reversions in Arabidopsis without complementing the
svp and agl24 mutants. Journal of Experimental Botany 2008.
- Franziska Turck, Fabio Fornara, and George Coupland Regulation
and identity of Florigen: FLOWERING LOCUS T moves center stage. Annual
Review of Plant Biology 2008.
- Ludovico
Dreni, Sara Jacchia, Fabio Fornara, Monica Fornari, Pieter B. F. Ouwerkerk,
Gynheung An, Lucia Colombo and Martin M. Kater The D-lineage MADS-box
gene OsMADS13 controls ovule identity in rice. The Plant Journal 2007.
- Laurent Corbesier, Coral Vincent, Seonghoe
Jang, Fabio Fornara, Qingzhi Fan, Iain Searle, Antonis Giakountis, Sara
Farrona, Lionel Gissot, Colin Turnbull and George Coupland FT
Protein Movement Contributes to Long-Distance Signaling in Floral Induction of
Arabidopsis. Science 2007.
- Iain Searle, Yuehui He, Franziska Turck, Coral
Vincent, Fabio Fornara, Sandra Krober, Richard A. Amasino and George
Coupland The transcription factor FLC confers a flowering response to
vernalization by repressine meristem competence and systemic signaling in
Arabidopsis. Genes and Development 2006.
- Ellen van Enckevort, Gaetan Droc, Pietro
Piffanelli, Raffaella Greco, Cyril Gagneur, Christele Weber, Victor M.
Gonzalez, Pere Cabot, Fabio Fornara, Stefano Berri, Berta Miro, Ping Lan, Marta
Rafel, Teresa Capell, Pere Puigdomenech, Pieter B.F. Ouwerkerk, Annemarie H.
Meijer, Enrico Pe', Lucia Colombo, Paul Christou, Emmanuel Guiderdoni and Andy
Pereira EU-OSTID: a collection of transposon
insertional mutants for functional genomics in rice. Plant Molecular Biology 2005.
- Fabio Fornara, Lucie
Parenicova, Giuseppina Falasca, Nilla Pelucchi, Simona Masiero, Stefano
Ciannamea, Zenaida Lopez-Dee, Maria Maddalena Altamura, Lucia Colombo and
Martin M. Kater Functional
characterization of OsMADS18, a member of the AP1/SQUA subfamily of MADS box
genes. Plant Physiology 2004.
- Veronia Gregis, Fabio
Fornara, Martin Kater, and Lucia Colombo Functional
conservation between rice and Arabidopsis MADS-box transcription factors.
Flowering Newsletter 2004.
- Fabio
Fornara, Giovanna Marziani, Luca Mizzi, Martin Kater and Lucia Colombo MADS-box genes controlling flower
development in rice. Plant Biology 2003.
- Nilla Pelucchi, Fabio
Fornara, Cristina Favalli, Simona Masiero, Clara Lago, Lucia Colombo and Martin
Kater Comparative analysis of MADS-box
genes expressed during flower development. Sexual Plant Reproduction 2002.
Book Chapters and Editorial work
- Francesca Galbiati, Damiano Martignago, Martina Landini, Jorge Gomez-Ariza, Vittoria Brambilla and Fabio Fornara Genome editing in crop species 2017 (In More Food Road to Survival, Bentham Science eBooks, Eds Giuseppe Gavazzi, Roberto Pilu)
- The Molecular Genetics of Floral Transition and Flower Development (Elsevier, 2014, edited by Fabio Fornara)