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Carmen Rosario Beuzón López

Profesor Titular
Plant-pathogen interactions
Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterranea La Mayora
Spain

Professor Genetics
Biography

Our research focuses on the study of plant-pathogen interaction at the epigenetic level. In recent years, numerous studies have shown that various types of biotic stresses such as infections by viruses or pathogenic bacteria, are capable of modifying the host epigenome mainly altering methylation patterns of genomic DNA. Our work focuses on the epigenetic implications of geminiviral infection. We have identified a new viral silencing suppressor (Rep) that acts at the transcriptional level and whose expression leads to hypomethylation of the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana.

Research Intrest

patterns of genomic DNA, geminiviral infection

List of Publications
González-Plaza JJ, Ortiz-Martín I, Muñoz-Mérida A, García-López C, Sánchez-Sevilla JF, Luque F, Trelles O, Bejarano ER, De La Rosa R, Valpuesta V, Beuzón CR. Transcriptomic analysis using olive varieties and breeding progenies identifies candidate genes involved in plant architecture. Frontiers in plant science. 2016;7.
Rufián JS, Sánchez‐Romero MA, López‐Márquez D, Macho AP, Mansfield JW, Arnold DL, Ruiz‐Albert J, Casadesús J, Beuzón CR. Pseudomonas syringae differentiates into phenotypically distinct subpopulations during colonization of a plant host. Environmental microbiology. 2016 Oct 1;18(10):3593-605.
Rufián JS, Macho AP, Corry DS, Mansfield JW, Ruiz‐Albert J, Arnold DL, Beuzón CR. Confocal microscopy reveals in planta dynamic interactions between pathogenic, avirulent and non‐pathogenic Pseudomonas syringae strains. Molecular plant pathology. 2017 Apr 1.
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