Publications

2022

Serra O,  Mähönen AP, Hetherington AJ, Ragni L*. The making of plant armor: the periderm. Annual Review of Plant Biology, vol 73 pp 405-432, doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-102720-031405.   PubMed

Mor E, Pernisová M, Minne M, Cerutti G, Ripper D, Nolf J, Andres J, Ragni L, Zurbriggen MD, De Rybel B, Vernoux T. pre-print. bHLH heterodimer complex variations shape meristems in Arabidopsis thaliana by affecting target gene specificity. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.02.49458.2. Available at bioRxiv

2021

Andersen TG*, Molina D, Kilian J, Franke R., Ragni L.* and Niko Geldner*. Tissue-autonomous phenylpropanoid production is essential for establishment of root barriers. Current Biology, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.070. * co-corresponding authors. Available at ScienceDirect

Ben-Targem M, Ripper D, Bayer M, Ragni L. Auxin and Gibberellin signaling cross-talk promotes hypcotyl xylem expansion and cambium hoemostasis. Journal of Experimental Botany, doi:org/10.1093/jxb/erab089.  Available at bioRxiv

Pedrazzini E, Brocca L, Zuccaro M, Frugis G, Mainieri D, Marrano C, Ragni L., Klein EM, Vitale A, Pedrazzini E. 2021. Protein-specific induction of the unfolded protein response by two maize gamma-Zeins. Plant Physiology, 187(3): 1428–1444. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiab367.  Available at PMC

Blicharz S, Beemster G, Ragni L, De Diego N, Spíchal L, Hernándiz A, Marczak, Ł, Olszak M, Perlikowski D, Kosmala A, Malinowski R. 2021. Phloem exudate metabolic content reflects the response to water deficit stress in pea plants (Pisum sativum L.). The Plant Journal. 106(5): 1338-1355. doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15240. Available at PMC

Zhang Y, Vasuki H, Liu J, Bar H, Lazary S, Egbaria A, Ripper D, Charrier L, Aharoni A, Ragni L, Strader L, Sade N, Weinstain R, Geisler M, Shani E. 2021. ABA homeostasis and long-distance translocation is redundantly regulated by ABCG ABA importers. Science Advance; 7(43):eabf6069. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf6069.  Available at PMC

2020

Wei  X, Molina D, Wunderling, A Ripper, D and Vermeer J and Ragni L. Pluripotent Pericycle Cells Trigger Different Growth Outputs by Integrating Developmental Cues into Distinct Regulatory Modules. Current Biology 30(22), 4384-4398.e5. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.053. Available at ScienceDirect

Campilho A, Nieminen K, Ragni L. 2020. The development of the periderm: the final frontier between a plant and its environment. Current Opinion in Plant Biology: 53:10-14. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2019.08.008. Available at PubMed

2019

Zhang J, Eswaran G, Juan Alonso Serra J, Kucukoglu M, Xiang J, Yang W, Elo A, Nieminen K, Teddy Damén T, Joung J, Yun J, Lee J, Ragni L, Barbier de Reuille P, Ahnert SE, Lee J, Ari Pekka Mähönen and Ykä Helariutta. 2019. Transcriptional regulatory framework for vascular cambium development in Arabidopsis roots. Nature Plants. 5(10):1033-1042. doi: 10.1038/s41477-019- 0522-9. Available at PubMed

Alonso Serra J, Safronov O, Lim KJ, Miller SJ, Blokhina OB, Campilho A, Chong SL, Fagerstedt K, Haavikko R, Helariutta Y, Immanen J, Kangasjärvi J., Kauppila TJ, Lehtonen MI, Ragni L., Rajaraman S., Runeberg-Roos PM, Räsänen R., Safdari P, Tenkanen TM, Yli-Kauhaluoma J,Teeri T., Strachan C., Nieminen K, Salojärvi J. Tissue-specific study across the stem reveals the molecular fingerprint of bark. New Phytologist, 222(4):1816-1831.doi: 10.1111/nph.15725. Avaialble at PubMed

2018

Wunderling A, Ripper D, Barra-Jimenez A, Mahn S, Sajak K, Mehdi BT, Ragni L.  A molecular framework to study periderm formation in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist, 219:216-229 doi: 10.1111/nph.15128. Avaialble at PubMed

Ragni L, Greb T. Secondary growth as a determinant of plant shape and form. Semin Cell Dev Biol.79:58-67 doi:10.1016/j.semcdb.2017.08.0. Available at  PubMed

2017

Barbier de Reuille P, Ragni L. Vascular Morphodynamics During Secondary Growth.
Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1544:103-125. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6722-3_10. Available at PubMed

Wunderling A, Ben Targem M, Barbier de Reuille P, Ragni L. Novel tools for quantifying secondary growth. Journal of Experimental Botany, Jan;68(1):89-95. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erw450. Available at PubMed

Barra-Jiménez A, Ragni L. Secondary development in the stem: when Arabidopsis
and trees are closer than it seems. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Feb;35:145-151.
doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2016.12.002. Available at PubMed