She holds a degree in Biology (1992) and a PhD in Biological Sciences (1996) from the University of Buenos Aires. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Phytopathology at the University of California, Davis (1997-1998) and another in sugarcane genomics at the University of São Paulo (1999-2004). In 2005, she joined the Department of Botany of the Institute of Biosciences of the University of São Paulo as an Assistant Professor and has been an Associate Professor since 2015. Using approaches from Functional Genomics and Molecular Physiology, the group works to understand and manipulate plant metabolism in order to improve productivity and nutritional quality using Solanum lycopersicum as a model species. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Knowing the challenge imposed on science for ensuring food security in times of climate change, it is essential to identify the genetic variables that modulate crop yield and quality, understand their mechanisms of action, and evaluate how these mechanisms are affected by the changing environmental conditions. In this context, the general objective of this proposal is to study common fact…
Knowing the challenge imposed on science for ensuring food security in times of climate change, it is essential to identify the genetic variables that modulate crop yield and quality, understand their mechanisms of action, and evaluate how these mechanisms are affected by the changing environmental conditions. In this context, the general objective of this proposal is to study common fact…
Plants integrate several environmental cues in order to proper coordinate growth, development, and defense. The coordinated response to the stimuli relies on the interconnection of the signaling pathways. Light is a major factor determining the development and several physiological processes, being the B-box proteins (BBX) a family of transcription factors that gained much attention as pi…
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Due to the high consumption and the biochemical profile, tomato fruit is an important component of the human diet contributing significant amounts of antioxidant compounds, such as carotenoids and tocopherols. Since these nutraceuticals are synthesized in the plastids, plastidial abundance and activity directly impact in the nutricional quality of the fruits. The differentiation and activ…
Leaf senescence initiates when photosynthetic potential riches the maximum capacity and during its progression photochemical activity decreases due to the degradation of the photosynthetic machinery and nutrients are translocated to non-senescent plant organs. Several evidences indicate that the delay of senescence maintaining the production of photosynthates for longer periods results in…
Besides its economical and nutritional importance, Solanum lycopersicum is a model system for plant physiology studies. The fresh fruit as well as the derivatives are sources of several antioxidants including vitamin E (VTE). The understanding of the mechanisms involved in the biosynthesis, transport and accumulation of VTE in plants is highly desirable due its significant role in human h…
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The BBX proteins belong to a family of transcription factors that, in plants, was initially associated with light-signaling regulation. Today, we know that these proteins are involved in the regulation of many physiological processes such as flowering, photomorphogenesis, stress response and shade avoidance. Recently, evidence has shown that BBX proteins also participate in defense respon…
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BBX proteins encompass a group of zinc-finger transcription factors that contain at least one conserved B- box domain in their N-terminal region, which play important roles as regulators of flowering, circadian clock, photo and skotomorphogenesis, biotic and abiotic stress responses, and light signaling transduction. Several BBX proteins that regulate shade avoidance have been identified,…
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is an important source of nutraceutical compounds for human diet, many of which are totally or partially synthesized in the plastids (e.g. carotenoids and tocopherols). During ripening, the fruits suffer remarkable physiological and biochemical changes associated with chloroplast-to-chromoplast conversion. Phytochrome-mediated light signal transduction reg…
Tomato fruits are source of health-promoting antioxidant substances, such as ascorbic acid, carotenoids and tocopherols (Vitamin E, VTE). The accumulation of these plastid-derived compounds is affected by light, as this signal has a strong role in regulating chloroplast maintenance and activity. For example, silencing of DE-ETIOLATED 1 gene, a negative effector in light signal transductio…
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