Department: Instituto de Bioingeniería / Unidad de Genética

Phone: +34 966 658 812

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Current Position: Associate Professor of Genetics, Universidad Miguel Hernández.

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Research Fields

• Genetics

• Molecular Biology

• Plant Development

• Abiotic Stress

Representative Publications

• Robles P, Quesada V. Transcriptional and Post-transcriptional Regulation of Organellar Gene Expression (OGE) and Its Roles in Plant Salt Tolerance. (2019) International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20:1056

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• Robles P, Núñez-Delegido E, Ferrández-Ayela A, Sarmiento-Mañús R, Micol JL, Quesada V.  Arabidopsis mTERF6 is required for leaf patterning. (2018) Plant Science 266: 117–129.

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• Robles P, Navarro-Cartagena S, Ferrández-Ayela A, Núñez-Delegido E, Quesada V. The characterization of Arabidopsis mterf6 mutants reveals a new role for mTERF6 in tolerance to abiotic stress. (2018) International Journal of Molecular Sciences 19: 2388

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• Quesada V.  The roles of mitochondrial transcription termination factors (MTERFs) in plants. (2016) Physiologia Plantarum 157: 389-399

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• Robles P, Micol JL, Quesada V.  Mutations in the plant-conserved MTERF9 alter chloroplast gene expression, development and tolerance to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. (2015) Physiologia Plantarum 154: 297-313
   

• Robles P, Micol JL, Quesada V. Arabidopsis MDA1, a nuclear-encoded protein, functions in chloroplast development and abiotic stress responses. (2012) PLoS ONE 8: e42924