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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

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]

Zaffagnini, Mirko; Fermani, Simona; Calvaresi, Matteo; Orrù, Roberto; Iommarini, Luisa; Sparla, Francesca; Falini, Giuseppe; Bottoni, Andrea; Trost, Paolo, TUNING CYSTEINE REACTIVITY AND SULFENIC ACID STABILITY BY PROTEIN MICROENVIRONMENT IN GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES OF ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA, «ANTIOXIDANTS & REDOX SIGNALING», 2016, 24, pp. 502 - 517 [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]

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

Costa, Alex; Barbaro, Maria Raffaella; Sicilia, Francesca; Preger, Valeria; Krieger-Liszkay, Anja; Sparla, Francesca; De Lorenzo, Giulia; Trost, Paolo, AIR12, a b-type cytochrome of the plasma membrane of Arabidopsis thaliana is a negative regulator of resistance against Botrytis cinerea, «PLANT SCIENCE», 2015, 233, pp. 32 - 43 [Scientific article]

Carpaneto, Armando; Picco, Cristina; Scholz-Starke, Joachim; Festa, Margherita; Costa, Alex; Sparla, Francesca; Trost, Paolo, DIRECT RECORDING OF TRANS-PLASMA MEMBRANE ELECTRON CURRENTS MEDIATED BY A SOYBEAN MEMBER OF THE CYTOCHROME b561 FAMILY, in: FEEDING THE PLANET: PLANT SCIENCE AND BREEDING FOR THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE, 2015, pp. 1 - 1 (atti di: JOINT CONGRESS SIBV-SIGA, MILAN (ITALY), 8-11 SEPTEMBER 2015) [Abstract]

Picco, Cristiana; Scholz-Starke, Joachim; Festa, Margherita; Costa, Alex; Sparla, Francesca; Trost, Paolo; Carpaneto, Armando, Direct recording of trans-plasma membrane electron currents mediated by a member of the cytochrome b561 family of soybean, «PLANT PHYSIOLOGY», 2015, 169, pp. 986 - 995 [Scientific article]

Santelia, Diana; Trost, Paolo; Sparla, Francesca, New insights into redox control of starch degradation, «CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY», 2015, 25, pp. 1 - 9 [Scientific article]

Del Giudice, Alessandra; Pavel, Nicolae Viorel; Galantini, Luciano; Falini, Giuseppe; Trost, Paolo; Fermani, Simona; Sparla, Francesca, Unravelling the shape and structural assembly of the photosynthetic GAPDH-CP12-PRK complex from Arabidopsis thaliana by small-angle X-ray scattering analysis, «ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA. SECTION D», 2015, 71, pp. 2372 - 2385 [Scientific article]

Michela Reggi ; Simona Fermani ; Valerio Landi ; Francesca Sparla ; Erik Caroselli ; Francesca Gizzi ; Zvy Dubinsky ; Oren Levy ; Jean-Pierre Cuif ; Yannicke Dauphin ; Stefano Goffredo; Giuseppe Falini, Biomineralization in Mediterranean Corals: The Role of the Intraskeletal Organic Matrix, «CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN», 2014, 14, pp. 4310 - 4320 [Scientific article]

M. Calvaresi; F. Arnesano; S. Bonacchi; A. Bottoni; V. Calo`; S Conte; G Falini; S Fermani; M Losacco; M Montalti; G. Natile; L. Prodi; F. Sparla; F. Zerbetto, C60@Lysozyme: Direct Observation by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of a 1:1 Fullerene Protein Adduct, «ACS NANO», 2014, 8, pp. 1871 - 1877 [Scientific article]

Lucia Marri; Gabriel Thieulin-Pardo; Régine Lebrun; Rémy Puppo; Mirko Zaffagnini; Paolo Trost; Brigitte Gontero; Francesca Sparla, CP12-mediated protection of Calvin-Benson cycle enzymes from oxidative stress, «BIOCHIMIE», 2014, 97, pp. 228 - 237 [Scientific article]

F. Agriesti;D. Roncarati;F. Musiani;C. Del Campo;M. Iurlaro;F. Sparla;S. Ciurli;A. Danielli;V. Scarlato, FeON-FeOFF: the Helicobacter pylori Fur regulator commutates iron-responsive transcription by discriminative readout of opposed DNA grooves, «NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH», 2014, 42, pp. 3138 - 3151 [Scientific article]