User:Ruben Alcazar

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• Rubén Alcázar, PhD
• Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
• Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics.
• Carl-von-Linné Weg, 10
• 50829 Cologne, Germany

MPIPZ SFB680

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Education

• Future research: plant-environment interactions.
• 2010, Postdoc SFB680, MPIPZ Germany. Co-evolution of plant-pathogen interactions.
• 2008, Postdoc MPG, MPIPZ Germany. Hybrid incompatibilities in Arabidopsis thaliana.
• 2006, Postdoc BP2005, MPIPZ Germany. Natural variation of growth resposes to temperature.
• 2005, Postdoc EU-ROST, University of Barcelona. Polyamines in drought stress tolerance.
• 2004, PhD Plant Biology, University of Barcelona. Polyamines in abiotic stress and regulation of development.
• 1999, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Specialization in Genetic Engineering, University of Barcelona

Research interests

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Publications

1. Alcázar R, Bitrián M, Bartels D, Koncz C, Altabella T, and Tiburcio AF. Polyamine metabolic canalization in response to drought stress in Arabidopsis and the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum. Plant Signal Behav. 2011 Feb;6(2):243-50. DOI:10.4161/psb.6.2.14317 |
2. Alcázar R, García AV, Parker JE, and Reymond M. Incremental steps toward incompatibility revealed by Arabidopsis epistatic interactions modulating salicylic acid pathway activation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jan 6;106(1):334-9. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0811734106 |
3. Alcázar R, Cuevas JC, Planas J, Zarza X, Bortolotti C, Carrasco P, Salinas J, Tiburcio AF, and Altabella T. Integration of polyamines in the cold acclimation response. Plant Sci. 2011 Jan;180(1):31-8. DOI:10.1016/j.plantsci.2010.07.022 |
4. Alet AI, Sánchez DH, Ferrando A, Tiburcio AF, Alcazar R, Cuevas JC, Altabella T, Pico FM, Carrasco-Sorli P, Menéndez AB, and Ruiz OA. Homeostatic control of polyamine levels under long-term salt stress in Arabidopsis: changes in putrescine content do not alleviate ionic toxicity. Plant Signal Behav. 2011 Feb;6(2):237-42. DOI:10.4161/psb.6.2.14214 |
5. Alcázar R, Bitrián M, Bartels D, Koncz C, Altabella T, and Tiburcio AF. Polyamine metabolic canalization in response to drought stress in Arabidopsis and the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum. Plant Signal Behav. 2011 Feb;6(2):243-50. DOI:10.4161/psb.6.2.14317 |
6. Alcázar R, Altabella T, Marco F, Bortolotti C, Reymond M, Koncz C, Carrasco P, and Tiburcio AF. Polyamines: molecules with regulatory functions in plant abiotic stress tolerance. Planta. 2010 May;231(6):1237-49. DOI:10.1007/s00425-010-1130-0 |
7. Alcázar R, Planas J, Saxena T, Zarza X, Bortolotti C, Cuevas J, Bitrián M, Tiburcio AF, and Altabella T. Putrescine accumulation confers drought tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis plants over-expressing the homologous Arginine decarboxylase 2 gene. Plant Physiol Biochem. 2010 Jul;48(7):547-52. DOI:10.1016/j.plaphy.2010.02.002 |
8. Cuevas JC, López-Cobollo R, Alcázar R, Zarza X, Koncz C, Altabella T, Salinas J, Tiburcio AF, and Ferrando A. Putrescine as a signal to modulate the indispensable ABA increase under cold stress. Plant Signal Behav. 2009 Mar;4(3):219-20. DOI:10.4161/psb.4.3.7861 |
9. Berdasco M, Alcázar R, García-Ortiz MV, Ballestar E, Fernández AF, Roldán-Arjona T, Tiburcio AF, Altabella T, Buisine N, Quesneville H, Baudry A, Lepiniec L, Alaminos M, Rodríguez R, Lloyd A, Colot V, Bender J, Canal MJ, Esteller M, and Fraga MF. Promoter DNA hypermethylation and gene repression in undifferentiated Arabidopsis cells. PLoS One. 2008 Oct 1;3(10):e3306. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0003306 |
10. Cuevas JC, López-Cobollo R, Alcázar R, Zarza X, Koncz C, Altabella T, Salinas J, Tiburcio AF, and Ferrando A. Putrescine is involved in Arabidopsis freezing tolerance and cold acclimation by regulating abscisic acid levels in response to low temperature. Plant Physiol. 2008 Oct;148(2):1094-105. DOI:10.1104/pp.108.122945 |
11. Alcázar R, Marco F, Cuevas JC, Patron M, Ferrando A, Carrasco P, Tiburcio AF, and Altabella T. Involvement of polyamines in plant response to abiotic stress. Biotechnol Lett. 2006 Dec;28(23):1867-76. DOI:10.1007/s10529-006-9179-3 |
12. Alcázar R, García-Martínez JL, Cuevas JC, Tiburcio AF, and Altabella T. Overexpression of ADC2 in Arabidopsis induces dwarfism and late-flowering through GA deficiency. Plant J. 2005 Aug;43(3):425-36. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-313X.2005.02465.x |
13. Bortolotti C, Cordeiro A, Alcázar R, Borrell A, Culiañez-Macià FA, Tiburcio AF, and Altabella T. Localization of arginine decarboxylase in tobacco plants. Physiol Plant. 2004 Jan;120(1):84-92. DOI:10.1111/j.0031-9317.2004.0216.x |
14. Panicot M, Minguet EG, Ferrando A, Alcázar R, Blázquez MA, Carbonell J, Altabella T, Koncz C, and Tiburcio AF. A polyamine metabolon involving aminopropyl transferase complexes in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 2002 Oct;14(10):2539-51. DOI:10.1105/tpc.004077 |

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