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Francesca Sparla

Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology

Academic discipline: BIOS-02/A Plant Physiology

Director of Second Cycle Degree in Molecular and Cell Biology

Publications

Gurrieri, Libero; Merico, Martina; Trost, Paolo; Forlani, Giuseppe; Sparla, Francesca, Impact of Drought on Soluble Sugars and Free Proline Content in Selected Arabidopsis Mutants, «BIOLOGY», 2020, 9, pp. 367 - 380 [Scientific article]Open Access

Gurrieri, Libero; Giudice, Alessandra Del; Demitri, Nicola; Falini, Giuseppe; Pavel, Nicolae Viorel; Zaffagnini, Mirko; Polentarutti, Maurizio; Crozet, Pierre; Marchand, Christophe H.; Henri, Julien; Trost, Paolo; Lemaire, Stéphane D.; Sparla, Francesca*; Fermani, Simona, Arabidopsis and Chlamydomonas phosphoribulokinase crystal structures complete the redox structural proteome of the Calvin–Benson cycle, «PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA», 2019, 116, pp. 8048 - 8053 [Scientific article]

Zaffagnini, Mirko; Fermani, Simona; Marchand, Christophe H; Costa, Alex; Sparla, Francesca; Rouhier, Nicolas; Geigenberger, Peter; Lemaire, Stéphane D; Trost, Paolo, Redox Homeostasis in Photosynthetic Organisms: Novel and Established Thiol-Based Molecular Mechanisms, «ANTIOXIDANTS & REDOX SIGNALING», 2019, 31, pp. 155 - 210 [Scientific article]Open Access

Marchand, Christophe H.; Fermani, Simona*; Rossi, Jacopo; Gurrieri, Libero; Tedesco, Daniele; Henri, Julien; Sparla, Francesca; Trost, Paolo; Lemaire, Stéphane D.; Zaffagnini, Mirko, Structural and biochemical insights into the reactivity of thioredoxin h1 from chlamydomonas reinhardtii, «ANTIOXIDANTS», 2019, 8, Article number: 10 , pp. 1 - 10 [Scientific article]Open Access

Gurrieri L.; Distefano L.; Pirone C.; Horrer D.; Seung D.; Zaffagnini M.; Rouhier N.; Trost P.; Santelia D.; Sparla F., The Thioredoxin-Regulated α-Amylase 3 of Arabidopsis thaliana Is a Target of S-Glutathionylation, «FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE», 2019, 10, Article number: 993 , pp. 993 - 1003 [Scientific article]Open Access

Botticella, Ermelinda; Sestili, Francesco; Sparla, Francesca; Moscatello, Stefano; Marri, Lucia; Cuesta-Seijo, Jose A.; Falini, Giuseppe; Battistelli, Alberto; Trost, Paolo; Lafiandra, Domenico*, Combining mutations at genes encoding key enzymes involved in starch synthesis affects the amylose content, carbohydrate allocation and hardness in the wheat grain, «PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL», 2018, 16, pp. 1723 - 1734 [Scientific article]Open Access

Skryhan, Katsiaryna; Gurrieri, Libero; Sparla, Francesca; Trost, Paolo; Blennow, Andreas*, Redox regulation of starch metabolism, «FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE», 2018, 9, Article number: 1344 , pp. 1 - 8 [Scientific article]Open Access

CARPANETO ARMANDO, LAGOSTENA L, PICCO CRISTINA, SCHOLZ-STARKE JOACHIM, FESTA MARGHERITA, COSTA ALEX, SPARLA FRANCESCA, TROST PAOLO, DIRECT RECORDINGS OF TRANSMEMBRANE ELECTRON CURRENTS IN PLANTS, in: Proceedings of the Joint Congress SIBV-SIGA, 2017, pp. 1 - 1 (atti di: SIBV-SIGA Joint Congress "Sustainability of agricultural environment: contributions of plant genetics and physiology", Pisa (Italy), 19-22 settembre 2017) [Contribution to conference proceedings]

Trost, Paolo; Picco, Cristiana; Scholz-Starke, Joachim; Festa, Margherita; Lagostena, Laura; Costa, Alex; Sparla, Francesca; Carpaneto, Armando*, Electron current recordings in living cells, «BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY», 2017, 229, pp. 57 - 61 [Scientific article]

Gurrieri, Libero; Forlani, Giuseppe; Trost, PAOLO BERNARDO; Sparla, Francesca, PHOTOSYNTHETIC CARBON METABOLISM AND PROLINE BIOSYNTHESIS, LOOKING FOR A CONNECTION, in: Proceedings of the Joint Congress SIBV-SIGA, 2017, pp. 1 - 1 (atti di: SIBV-SIGA Joint Congress "Sustainability of agricultural environment: contributions of plant genetics and physiology", Pisa (Italia), Dal 19 al 22 settembre 2017) [Contribution to conference proceedings]

Irene Recchia, Francesca Sparla, Paolo Pupillo, Photosynthetic properties of spring geophytes assessed by chlorophyll fluorescence analysis, «PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY», 2017, 118, pp. 510 - 518 [Scientific article]

Biniek, Catherine; Heyno, Eiri; Kruk, Jerzy; Sparla, Francesca; Trost, Paolo; Krieger-Liszkay, Anja, Role of the NAD(P)H quinone oxidoreductase NQR and the cytochrome b AIR12 in controlling superoxide generation at the plasma membrane, «PLANTA», 2017, 245, pp. 807 - 817 [Scientific article]

Pirone, Claudia; Gurrieri, Libero; Gaiba, Ivan; Adamiano, Alessio; Valle, Francesco; Trost, PAOLO BERNARDO; Sparla, Francesca, The analysis of the different functions of starch-phosphorylating enzymes during the development of Arabidopsis thaliana plants discloses an unexpected role for the cytosolic isoform GWD2, «PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM», 2017, 160, pp. 447 - 457 [Scientific article]

Zanella, Martina; Borghi, Gian Luca; Pirone, Claudia; Thalmann, Matthias; Pazmino, Diana; Costa, Alex; Santelia, Diana; Trost, Paolo; Sparla, Francesca, β-amylase 1 (BAM1) degrades transitory starch to sustain proline biosynthesis during drought stress, «JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY», 2016, 67, pp. 1819 - 1826 [Scientific article]Open Access

Sestili, Francesco; Sparla, Francesca; Botticella, Ermelinda; Janni, Michela; D’Ovidio, Renato; Falini, Giuseppe; Marri, Lucia; Cuesta-Seijo, Jose A.; Moscatello, Stefano; Battistelli, Alberto; Trost, Paolo; Lafiandra, Domenico, The down-regulation of the genes encoding Isoamylase 1 alters the starch composition of the durum wheat grain, «PLANT SCIENCE», 2016, 252, pp. 230 - 238 [Scientific article]