DELLA proteins recruit the Mediator complex subunit MED15 to coactivate transcription in land plants

Hernández-García J, Serrano-Mislata A, Lozano-Quiles M, Úrbez C, Nohales MA, Blanco-Touriñán N, Peng H, Ledesma-Amaro R, Blázquez MA.

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. (2024) 121, e2319163121.

DELLA functions evolved by rewiring of associated transcriptional networks

Briones-Moreno A, Hernández-García J, Vargas-Chávez C, Blanco-Touriñán N, Phokas A, Úrbez C, Cerdán PD, Coates JC, Alabadí D, Blázquez MA

Nat. Plants (2023) 9, 535-543.

Coordination between growth and stress responses by DELLA in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

Hernández-García J, Sun R, Serrano-Mislata A, Inoue K, Vargas-Chávez C, Esteve-Bruna D, Arbona V, Yamaoka S, Nishihama R, Kohchi T, Blázquez MA.

Curr. Biol.  (2021) 31, 3678-3686.

Origin of gibberellin-dependent transcriptional regulation by molecular exploitation of a transactivation domain in DELLA proteins

Hernández-García J, Briones-Moreno A, Dumas R, Blazquez MA

Mol Biol Evol (2019) 36, 908-918.

Auxin methylation is required for differential growth in Arabidopsis

Abbas M, Hernández-García J, Pollmann S, Samodelov SL, Kolb M, Friml J, Hammes UZ, Zurbriggen MD, Blázquez MA, Alabadí D

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2018) 115, 6864-6869.

A bHLH-based feedback loop that restricts vascular cell proliferation in plants

Vera-Sirera F, De Rybel B, Úrbez C, Kouklas E, Pesquera M, Álvarez-Mahecha JC, Minguet EG, Tuominen H, Carbonell J, Borst JW, Weijers D, Blázquez MA

Dev. Cell (2015) 35, 432-443.


Oxygen sensing coordinates photomorphogenesis to facilitate seedling survival

Abbas M, Berckhan S, Rooney D, Gibbs DJ, Vicente-Conde J, Marín-de la Rosa NA, Sousa-Correia C, Bassel GW, León J, Alabadí D, Blázquez MA, Holdsworth MJ

Curr. Biol. (2015) 25, 1483-1488.


Dynamic regulation of cortical microtubule organization  through prefoldin-DELLA interaction

Locascio A, Blázquez MA, Alabadí D

Curr. Biol. (2013) 23, 804-809. 


Molecular mechanism for the interaction between gibberellin and brassinosteroid signaling pathways in Arabidopsis

Gallego-Bartolomé J, Minguet EG, Grau-Enguix F, Abbas M, Locascio A, Thomas SG, Alabadí D, Blázquez MA

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2012) 109, 13446-13451.


Circadian oscillation of gibberellin signalling in Arabidopsis

Arana MV, Marín-de la Rosa N, Maloof JN, Blázquez MA, Alabadí D

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2011) 108, 9292-9297.


A thermosensory pathway controlling flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Blázquez MA, Ahn JH, Weigel D

Nat. Genet. (2003) 33, 168-171.

Integration of floral inductive signals in Arabidopsis.

Blázquez MA, Weigel, D

Nature (2000) 404, 889-892.

Miguel A Blázquez

Although trained as a chemist, my main interest has always been to decipher how organisms perceive environmental changes and modify their behavior accordingly.

- 2001 to present / Group Leader, Professor / IBMCP, Valencia, Spain.

- 2000 to 2001 / Research Assistant at the Carbonell Lab / IBMCP, Valencia, Spain.

- 1996 to 2000 / Postdoc at the Weigel Lab / Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA.

- 1990 to 1995 / PhD student at the Gancedo Lab / IIB, Madrid, Spain.

- 1984 to 1989 / Chemistry Degree / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

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mblazquez@ibmcp.upv.es

Tel: +34 963 877 886