Pubblicazioni

Biancucci, M., Chirivì, D., Baldini, A., Badenhorst, E., Dobetti, F., Khahani, B., Formentin, E., Eguen, T., Turck, F., Moore, J. P., Tavakol, E., Wenkel, S., Lo Schiavo, F., Ezquer, I., Brambilla, V., Horner, D., Chiara, M., Perrella, G., Betti, C., & Fornara, F. (2025). Mutations in HEADING DATE 1 affect transcription and cell wall composition in rice. Plant Physiology, 197(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf120

Defez, R., Errigo, M. C., Formici, G., Scaffardi, L., Sirsi, E., Fornara, F., & Brambilla, V. (2025a). Addendum: The history of GM crops in Italy. EMBO Reports, 26(2), 593-594–594. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-024-00359-4

Defez, R., Errigo, M. C., Formici, G., Scaffardi, L., Sirsi, E., Fornara, F., & Brambilla, V. (2025b). The history of GM crops in Italy. EMBO Reports, 26(1), 9-15–15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-024-00330-3

Mineri, L., Bono, G. A., Sergi, E., Colleoni, P. E., Morandini, P., Vicentini, G., Fornara, F., & Brambilla, V. (2025). OsMAINTENANCE OF MERISTEM LIKE 1 controls style number at high temperatures in rice. Plant Molecular Biology, 115(1), 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-025-01553-1 LINK AIR: https://hdl.handle.net/2434/1137447

Pozzi, C. M., Brambilla, V. F., Gaiti, A., & Spada, A. (2024). Plant developmental oddities. Planta, 260(4), 104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-024-04534-8

Traversa, D., Vicentini, G., Krukowski, P. K., Conti, L., Chiara, M., & Brambilla, V. (2024). Integrating single nuclei and bulk RNA sequencing in rice shoot apical meristems uncovers candidate early floral transition gene networks. Plant Reproduction, 38(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00497-024-00514-w

Vicentini, G., Biancucci, M., Mineri, L., Chirivì, D., Giaume, F., Miao, Y., Kyozuka, J., Brambilla, V., Betti, C., & Fornara, F. (2023). Environmental control of rice flowering time. Plant Communications, 4(5). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2023.100610

Chirivì, D., Betti, C. (2023). Molecular Links between Flowering and Abiotic Stress Response: A Focus on Poaceae. Plants, 12(2), 331. doi: 10.3390/plants12020331

Mineri, L., Cerise, M., Giaume, F., Vicentini, G., Martignago, D., Chiara, M., Galbiati, F., Spada, A., Horner, D., Fornara, F., & Brambilla, V. (2023). Rice florigens control a common set of genes at the shoot apical meristem including the F-BOX BROADER TILLER ANGLE 1 that regulates tiller angle and spikelet development. The Plant Journal, 115(6), 1647–1660. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16345

Giaume, F., Bono, G. A., Martignago, D., Miao, Y., Vicentini, G., Toriba, T., Wang, R., Kong, D., Cerise, M., Chirivì, D., Biancucci, M., Khahani, B., Morandini, P., Tameling, W., Martinotti, M., Goretti, D., Coupland, G., Kater, M., Brambilla, V., … Fornara, F. (2023). Two florigens and a florigen-like protein form a triple regulatory module at the shoot apical meristem to promote reproductive transitions in rice. Nature Plants, 9(4), 525–534. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01383-3

Wenxin Zhang, Rui Wang, Dali Kong, Fangnan Peng, Mei Chen, Wenjie Zeng, Francesca Giaume, Sheng He, Hui Zhang, Zhen Wang, Junko Kyozuka, Jian-Kang Zhu, Fabio Fornara, Daisuke Miki, Precise and heritable gene targeting in rice using a sequential transformation strategy,
Cell Reports Methods, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2023,100389, ISSN 2667-2375, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2022.100389

Carlessi, M., Mariotti, L., Giaume, F. et al. Targeted knockout of the gene OsHOL1 removes methyl iodide emissions from rice plants. Sci Rep 11, 17010 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95198-x

Francesca Giaume, Fabio Fornara, SPL transcription factors prevent inflorescence reversion in rice, Molecular Plant, Volume 14, Issue 7,
2021, Pages 1041-1043, ISSN 1674-2052, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2021.06.009

Chaves-Sanjuan, A., Gnesutta, N., Gobbini, A., Martignago, D., Bernardini, A., Fornara, F., Mantovani, R. and Nardini, M. (2021), Structural determinants for NF-Y subunit organization and NF-Y/DNA association in plants. Plant J., 105: 49-61. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15038

Cerise, M., Giaume, F., Galli, M., Khahani, B., Lucas, J., Podico, F., Tavakol, E., Parcy, F., Gallavotti, A., Brambilla, V., & Fornara, F. (2021). OsFD4 promotes the rice floral transition via florigen activation complex formation in the shoot apical meristem. New Phytologist, 229(1), 429–443. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16834

Khahani, B., Tavakol, E., Shariati, V. et al. Genome wide screening and comparative genome analysis for Meta-QTLs, ortho-MQTLs and candidate genes controlling yield and yield-related traits in rice. BMC Genomics 21, 294 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-6702-1

Eguen, T., Ariza, J. G., Brambilla, V., Sun, B., Bhati, K. K., Fornara, F., & Wenkel, S. (2020). Control of flowering in rice through synthetic microProteins. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 62(6), 730–736. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.12865

Gómez-Ariza, J., Brambilla, V., Vicentini, G., Landini, M., Cerise, M., Carrera, E., Shrestha, R., Chiozzotto, R., Galbiati, F., Caporali, E., López Díaz, I., & Fornara, F. (2019). A transcription factor coordinating internode elongation and photoperiodic signals in rice. Nature Plants, 5(4), 358–362. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-019-0401-4

Borrelli, V. M. G., Brambilla, V., Rogowsky, P., Marocco, A., & Lanubile, A. (2018). The Enhancement of Plant Disease Resistance Using CRISPR/Cas9 Technology. Frontiers in Plant Science, Volume 9-2018. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2018.01245

Gnesutta N, Mantovani R, Fornara F. Plant Flowering: Imposing DNA Specificity on Histone-Fold Subunits. Trends Plant Sci. 2018 Apr;23(4):293-301. Epub 2018 Jan 10. PMID: 29331540. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2017.12.005

Brambilla, V., Martignago, D., Goretti, D., Cerise, M., Somssich, M., de Rosa, M., Galbiati, F., Shrestha, R., Lazzaro, F., Simon, R., & Fornara, F. (2017). Antagonistic Transcription Factor Complexes Modulate the Floral Transition in Rice. The Plant Cell, 29(11), 2801–2816. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.17.00645

Goretti, D., Martignago, D., Landini, M., Brambilla, V., Gómez-Ariza, J., Gnesutta, N., Galbiati, F., Collani, S., Takagi, H., Terauchi, R., Mantovani, R., & Fornara, F. (2017). Transcriptional and Post-transcriptional Mechanisms Limit Heading Date 1 (Hd1) Function to Adapt Rice to High Latitudes. PLOS Genetics, 13(1), e1006530 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006530

Brambilla, V., Gomez-Ariza, J., Cerise, M., & Fornara, F. (2017). The Importance of Being on Time: Regulatory Networks Controlling Photoperiodic Flowering in Cereals. Frontiers in Plant Science, Volume 8-2017. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2017.00665

Brambilla, V., & Fornara, F. (2017). Y flowering? Regulation and activity of CONSTANS and CCT-domain proteins in Arabidopsis and crop species. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, 1860(5), 655–660. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbagrm.2016.10.009

Srinivasan, A., Jiménez-Gómez, J. M., Fornara, F., Soppe, W. J. J., & Brambilla, V. (2016). Alternative splicing enhances transcriptome complexity in desiccating seeds. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 58(12), 947–958. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.12482

Galbiati F, Chiozzotto R, Locatelli F, Spada A, Genga A, Fornara F. Hd3a, RFT1 and Ehd1 integrate photoperiodic and drought stress signals to delay the floral transition in rice. Plant Cell Environ. 2016 Sep;39(9) Epub 2016 Jul 11. PMID: 27111837. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12760

Gómez-Ariza, J., Galbiati, F., Goretti, D., Brambilla, V., Shrestha, R., Pappolla, A., Courtois, B., & Fornara, F. (2015). Loss of floral repressor function adapts rice to higher latitudes in Europe. Journal of Experimental Botany, 66(7), 2027–2039. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erv004

Sarid-Krebs L, Panigrahi KC, Fornara F, Takahashi Y, Hayama R, Jang S, Tilmes V, Valverde F, Coupland G. Phosphorylation of CONSTANS and its COP1-dependent degradation during photoperiodic flowering of Arabidopsis. Plant J. 2015 Nov;84(3):451-63. doi: 10.1111/tpj.13022. PMID: 26358558. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.13022

Shrestha, R., Gómez-Ariza, J., Brambilla, V., & Fornara, F. (2014). Molecular control of seasonal flowering in rice, arabidopsis and temperate cereals. In Annals of Botany (Vol. 114, Issue 7, pp. 1445–1458). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcu032

Brambilla, V., & Fornara, F. (2013). Molecular Control of Flowering in Response to Day Length in Rice. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 55(5), 410–418. https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.12033