Evolution of genetic network required for fruit and fruit-like structures development of land plants.

Project Information

EVOfruland

Grant agreement ID: 101007738

DOI

10.3030/101007738

Project closed

EC signature date 15 October 2020

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 1 007 400,00

EU contribution

€ 662 400,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA
Italy

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Deliverables

Other (3)

Conference in two public events/year in BGs

Conference in two public events/year in BGs (FoPD and Research night)FoPD: M11, 23, 35, 45; Research night: M4, 16, 28, 40.

Practicals for children

4 practicals about the importance of fruit research to school children.Practicals will be organized each year during the spring initiatives in the BGs : M10, 22, 34, 46.

Press conferences

Press conferences will be organized to engage the public in fruit development researches M4, M24, 48

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

EVOfruland website

Project website EVOfruland operative Communication in website will be update every four months M848

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (37)

Hormone immunolabeling in resin-embedded Arabidopsis tissues

Author(s): Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Héctor-Rogelio Nájera-González, Valentín Luna-García, Nayelli Marsch-Martínez, Stefan de Folter
Published in: STAR Protocols, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 102514, ISSN 2666-1667
Publisher: Cell Press Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102514

The role of cytokinin receptors in Arabidopsis thaliana seed development and how they affect the metabolomic profile

Author(s): Domenico Loperfido, Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona, Mauro Commisso, Flavia Guzzo, Barbara Ambrose, Lucia Colombo, Ignacio Ezquer
Published in: Planta, Issue 262, 2025, ISSN 0032-0935
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-025-04745-7

The role of D3-type cyclins is related to cytokinin and the bHLH transcription factor SPATULA in Arabidopsis gynoecium development

Author(s): Vincent E. Cerbantez-Bueno, Joanna Serwatowska, Carolina Rodríguez-Ramos, J. Erik Cruz-Valderrama, Stefan de Folter
Published in: Planta, Issue 260, 2024, Page(s) 48, ISSN 0032-0935
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-024-04481-4

Identification of key regulatory genes involved in the sporophyte and gametophyte development in Ginkgo biloba ovules revealed by in situ expression analyses

Author(s): D'Apice, G., Moschin, S., Nigris, S., Ciarle, R., Muto, A., Bruno, L., and Baldan, B.
Published in: American Journal of Botany, Issue 109( 6), 2022, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 1537-2197
Publisher: Wiley Periodicals LLC
DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1862

The Genetic Control of SEEDSTICK and LEUNIG-HOMOLOG in Seed and Fruit Development: New Insights into Cell Wall Control.

Author(s): Di Marzo, M.; Babolin, N.; Viana, V.E.; de Oliveira, A.C.; Gugi, B.; Caporali, E.; Herrera-Ubaldo, H.; Martínez-Estrada, E.; Driouich, A.; de Folter, S.; Colombo L., Ezquer I.
Published in: Plants, Issue 11, 2022, Page(s) 3146, ISSN 2223-7747
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants11223146

Transcriptional control of tomato fruit development and ripening

Author(s): Rufang Wang, Ruud A de Maagd
Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, 2025, ISSN 0022-0957
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraf357

Uncovering developmental diversity in the field

Author(s): Federico D. Brown, Edson Ishengoma, Georg Mayer, Natalia Pabón-Mora, M. Emília Santos, Karen E. Sears, Ivo de Sena Oliveira
Published in: Development, Issue 151, 2024, ISSN 0950-1991
Publisher: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/dev.203084

The role of pollination in controlling Ginkgo biloba ovule development

Author(s): Greta D’Apice, Silvia Moschin, Fabrizio Araniti, Sebastiano Nigris, Maurizio Di Marzo, Antonella Muto, Camilla Banfi, Leonardo Bruno, Lucia Colombo, Barbara Baldan
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 232/6, 2021, Page(s) 2353-2368, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17753

The transcription factor ENHANCER OF SHOOT REGENERATION 2 orchestrates cytokinin dynamics leading to developmental reprograming and green callus formation

Author(s): Yolanda Durán-Medina, David Díaz-Ramírez, Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Maurizio Di Marzo, José Erik Cruz-Valderrama, Herenia Guerrero-Largo, Beatriz E Ruiz-Cortés, Andrea Gómez-Felipe, José Irepan Reyes-Olalde, Lucia Colombo, Ondrej Novak, Stefan de Folter, Nayelli Marsch-Martínez
Published in: Plant Physiology, Issue 198, 2025, ISSN 0032-0889
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiaf182

Secrets within stems: The cryptic <i>Apodanthes caseariae</i> (Apodanthaceae), a rare neotropical holoendoparasite

Author(s): Jessica A. Ramírez‐Ramírez, Favio González, Estefanía Elejalde‐Baena, Juan F. Alzate, Natalia Pabón‐Mora
Published in: PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, 2025, ISSN 2572-2611
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ppp3.70102

Reproductive Mechanisms in Ginkgo and Cycas: Sisters but not Twins

Author(s): Elisabetta Offer, Silvia Moschin, Sebastiano Nigris & Barbara Baldan
Published in: Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, Issue 42 (5), 2023, Page(s) 283-299, ISSN 1549-7836
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/07352689.2023.2235173

An evo-devo view of the gynoecium

Author(s): J Irepan Reyes-Olalde; Mitsuhiro Aida; Stefan de Folter
Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) Pages 3933–3950, ISSN 1460-2431
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad135

Decoding flowering regulation in neotropical orchids: insights from epiphytic and terrestrial species

Author(s): Yesenia Madrigal, Juan F. Alzate, Gerco C. Angenent, Marian Bemer, Natalia Pabón‐Mora
Published in: New Phytologist, 2025, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.70577

Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis

Author(s): Juan Ramos-Pulido, Stefan de Folter
Published in: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Issue 75, 2023, Page(s) 102440, ISSN 1879-0356
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102440

Site-Directed Mutagenesis Mediated by Molecular Modeling and Docking and Its Effect on the Protein–Protein Interactions of the bHLH Transcription Factors SPATULA, HECATE1, and INDEHISCENT

Author(s): Pablo López-Gómez, Daniela De La Mora-Franco, Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Corina Díaz-Quezada, Luis G. Brieba, Stefan de Folter
Published in: Plants, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 1756, ISSN 2223-7747
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/plants14121756

The protein–protein interaction landscape of transcription factors during gynoecium development inArabidopsis

Author(s): Herrera-Ubaldo, H., Campos, S.E., López-Gómez, P., Luna-García, V., Zúñiga-Mayo, V.M., Armas-Caballero, G.E., González-Aguilera, K.L., DeLuna, A., Marsch-Martínez, N., Espinosa-Soto, C., de Folter, S.
Published in: Molecular Plant, Issue 16, 2023, Page(s) 260-278, ISSN 1674-2052
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2022.09.004

Gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis.

Author(s): Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Stefan de Folter
Published in: Development, Issue 149/6, 2022, Page(s) 200120, ISSN 0950-1991
Publisher: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/dev.200120

FRUITFULL2 controls tomato fertility through style length and pollen quality

Author(s): Xiaowei Wang, Monica Lanzoni Rossi, Adriana Pinheiro Martinelli, Gerco C. Angenent, Ruud A. de Maagd
Published in: Horticultural Plant Journal, 2025, ISSN 2468-0141
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.hpj.2025.01.002

Divergent evolution of a thermospermine-dependent regulatory pathway in land plants

Author(s): Anna Solé-Gil, Yuuki Sakai, Bruno Catarino, Victor A.S. Jones, Christopher E. Youngstrom, Joan Jordà-Segura, Chi-Lien Cheng, Liam Dolan, Barbara A. Ambrose, Kimitsune Ishizaki, Miguel A. Blázquez, Javier Agustí
Published in: Developmental Cell, Issue 60, 2025, Page(s) 1348-1358.e4, ISSN 1534-5807
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.12.027

Reproductive development in Trithuria submersa (Hydatellaceae: Nymphaeales): the involvement of AGAMOUS-like genes

Author(s): Silvia Moschin, Sebastiano Nigris, Elisabetta Offer, Nicola Babolin, Adriana Chiappetta, Leonardo Bruno, Barbara Baldan
Published in: Planta, Issue 260, 2024, ISSN 0032-0935
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-024-04537-5

NAC100 regulates silique growth during the initial phase of fruit development through the gibberellin biosynthetic pathway

Author(s): Annamaria Massafra, Sara Forlani, Lorenzo Periccioli, Lisa Rotasperti, Chiara Mizzotti, Lorenzo Mariotti, Andrea Tagliani, Simona Masiero
Published in: Plant Science, Issue 352, 2025, Page(s) 112344, ISSN 0168-9452
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2024.112344

Dehiscent fruits in Brassicaceae and Papaveraceae: convergent morpho-anatomical features with divergent underlying genetic mechanisms

Author(s): Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona, Barbara A Ambrose, Yesenia Madrigal, Natalia Pabón-Mora
Published in: Annals of Botany, 2025, ISSN 0305-7364
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcaf079

A comprehensive model of tomato fruit ripening regulation by the transcription factors NOR-like1, NAC-NOR, and MADS-RIN

Author(s): Victor Aprilyanto, Xiaowei Wang, Rufang Wang, Stan Kronenberg, Feitse Bos, Cristian Peña-Ponton, Gerco C Angenent, Ruud A de Maagd
Published in: Plant Physiology, Issue 198, 2025, ISSN 0032-0889
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiaf291

Identifying new players of gynoecium development using tissue-specific transcriptome data of Arabidopsis

Author(s): Eliana Arias-Pérez, Valentín Luna-García, Judith J. Bernal-Gallardo, Stefan de Folter
Published in: Planta, Issue 262, 2025, ISSN 0032-0935
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-025-04784-0

Back together: Over 1000 single-copy nuclear loci and reproductive features support the holoendoparasitic Apodanthaceae and Rafflesiaceae as sister lineages in the order Malpighiales

Author(s): Juan F. Alzate, Favio A. González, Natalia Pabón-Mora
Published in: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Issue 201, 2024, Page(s) 108217, ISSN 1055-7903
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108217

A cornucopia of diversity—<i>Ranunculales</i> as a model lineage

Author(s): null null, Annette Becker, Julien B Bachelier, Laetitia Carrive, Natalia Conde e Silva, Catherine Damerval, Cédric Del Rio, Yves Deveaux, Verónica S Di Stilio, Yan Gong, Florian Jabbour, Elena M Kramer, Sophie Nadot, Natalia Pabón-Mora, Wei Wang
Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, Issue 75, 2024, Page(s) 1800-1822, ISSN 0022-0957
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad492

Comparative anatomy and genetic bases of fruit development in selected Rubiaceae (Gentianales)

Author(s): Héctor Salazar‐Duque, Juan F. Alzate, Aura Urrea Trujillo, Cristina Ferrándiz, Natalia Pabón‐Mora
Published in: American Journal of Botany, Issue 108/10, 2021, Page(s) 1838-1860, ISSN 0002-9122
Publisher: Botanical Society of America, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1785

An evo-devo view of the gynoecium

Author(s): J Irepan Reyes-Olalde, Mitsuhiro Aida, Stefan de Folter
Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, Issue 74, 2023, Page(s) 3933-3950, ISSN 0022-0957
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad135

Editorial: Plant Development: From Cells to Systems Biology

Author(s): Stefan de Folter; Klaus Palme; José Manuel Pérez-Pérez
Published in: Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol 12 (2021), Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 1664-462X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.810071

Laser-Assisted Microdissection and High-Throughput RNA Sequencing of the &lt;em&gt;Arabidopsis&lt;/em&gt; Gynoecium Medial and Lateral Domains

Author(s): Valentin Luna, Stefan de Folter
Published in: BIO-PROTOCOL, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2331-8325
Publisher: Bio-Protocol, LLC
DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.5056

The Role of Cytokinins during the Development of Strawberry Flowers and Receptacles

Author(s): Pérez-Rojas, M ; Diaz-Ramírez, D ; Ortíz-Ramírez, CI ; Galaz-avalos, RM ; Loyola-Vargas, VM ; Ferrándiz, C ; Abraham-Juárez, MD ; Marsch-Martínez, N
Published in: Plants-BASEL, Issue 12, 2023, Page(s) 21, ISSN 2223-7747
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants12213672

Development of pollinated and unpollinated ovules in Ginkgo biloba: unravelling the role of pollen in ovule tissue maturation

Author(s): Antonella Muto, Emanuela Talarico, Greta D’Apice, Maurizio Di Marzo, Silvia Moschin, Sebastiano Nigris, , Nicola Babolin, , Eleonora Greco, , Fabrizio Araniti, , Adriana Chiappetta, Lucia Colombo, Barbara Baldan and Leonardo Bruno
Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, Issue 75, 2024, Page(s) 3351-3367, ISSN 1460-2431
Publisher: Oxford University Press on behalf of SEB
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erae102

A high-resolution gene expression map of the medial and lateral domains of the gynoecium of Arabidopsis

Author(s): Valentín Luna-García, Judith Jazmin Bernal Gallardo, Martin Rethoret-Pasty, Asher Pasha, Nicholas J. Provart and Stefan de Folter.
Published in: Plant Physiology, Issue 195, 2024, Page(s) 410-429, ISSN 1532-2548
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad658

The floral ABCs of Hydnora, one of the most bizarre parasitic plants in the world, and its autotrophic relatives of the order Piperales

Author(s): Natalia Pabón-Mora, Favio González, Claude W. dePamphilis, Jay F. Bolin, Christoph Neinhuis, Juan F. Alzate, Stefan Wanke
Published in: EvoDevo, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-9139
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13227-025-00252-8

<scp><i>NGATHA</i></scp> carpel development genes evolved in the common ancestor of seed plants

Author(s): Ignacio Cota, Silvia Moschin, Elisabetta Offer, Irene Martínez‐Fernández, Francesco Magnanimi, Barbara Ambrose, Sebastiano Nigris, Barbara Baldan, Cristina Ferrándiz, Soraya Pelaz
Published in: The Plant Journal, Issue 124, 2025, ISSN 0960-7412
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.70488

The gynostemium: More than the sum of its parts with emerging floral complexities

Author(s): Natalia Pabón-Mora, Favio González
Published in: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Issue 81, 2024, Page(s) 102609, ISSN 1369-5266
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2024.102609

Conserved and novel roles of the bHLH transcription factor SPATULA in tomato

Author(s): Eduardo Martínez-Estrada, Judith Jazmín Bernal-Gallardo, Pablo López-Gómez, Daniela de la Mora-Franco, Marisela Celso-Espinoza, Moisés Guerrero-Esperanza, David Díaz-Ramírez, Nayelli Marsch-Martínez, José Juan Ordaz-Ortiz, Stefan de Folter
Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, 2025, ISSN 0022-0957
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraf029

Book chapters (4)

Hormones and Flower Development in Arabidopsis

Author(s): Zúñiga-Mayo, V.M., Durán-Medina, Y., Marsch-Martínez, N., de Folter, S. (2023). Hormones and Flower Development in Arabidopsis.
Published in: Flower Development . Methods in Molecular Biology, Issue 2686, 2023, ISBN 978-1-0716-3299-4
Publisher: Humana
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3299-4_5

Expression and Functional Studies of Leaf, Floral, and Fruit Developmental Genes in Non-model Species

Author(s): Natalia Pabón-Mora, Harold Suárez-Baron, Yesenia Madrigal, Juan F. Alzate, Favio González
Published in: Methods in Molecular Biology, Flower Development, 2023, Page(s) 365-401
Publisher: Springer US
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3299-4_19

A Simple and Efficient Protocol to Transform and Regenerate CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Genome-Edited Tomato Plants

Author(s): Eduardo Martínez-Estrada, Daniela de la Mora-Franco, Stefan de Folter
Published in: Methods in Molecular Biology, Plant MicroRNAs, 2025, Page(s) 213-228
Publisher: Springer US
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4398-3_14

Novel Structures in Plants, Developmental Evolution of

Author(s): N. Pabón Mora, F. González
Published in: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, 2022, Page(s) 146-166, ISBN 9780128004265
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-800049-6.00142-6

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

The genome of the Wollemi pine, a critically endangered “living fossil” unchanged since the Cretaceous, reveals extensive ancient transposon activity

Author(s): Dennis Wm. Stevenson, Srividya Ramakrishnan, Cristiane de Santis Alves, Laís Araujo Coelho, Melissa Kramer, Sara Goodwin, Olivia Mendevil Ramos, Gil Eshel, Veronica M. Sondervan, Samantha Frangos, Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona, Katherine Jenike, Shujun Ou, Xiaojin Wang, Yin Peng Lee, Stella Loke, Maurizio Rossetto, Hannah McPherson, Sebastiano Nigris, Silvia Moschin, Damon P. Little, Manpreet S. Katari,
Published in: BioRxiv, 2023, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.24.554647