Research Group Monte

Evolution of Plant Signaling Lab

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Publications

* co-first author; # co-corresponding author

2023

Monte I. Jasmonates and salicylic acid: evolution of defense hormones in land plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology (2023) 76:102470

Chini A*, Monte I*, Zamarreño AM, García-Mina JM, Solano R. Evolution of the jasmonate ligands and their biosynthetic pathways. New Phytologist (2023) 238:2236–2246

Chu J, Monte I, DeFalco TA, Köster P, Derbyshire P, Menke FLH, Zipfel C. Conservation of the PBL-RBOH immune module in land plants. Current Biology (2023) 33:1-8.

2022

Monte I^#, Caballero J, Zamarreño AM, Fernandez-Barbero G, García-Mina JM, Solano R^#. JAZ is essential for ligand specificity of the COI1/JAZ co-receptor. PNAS (2022) 119: e2212155119

Kneeshaw S, Soriano G, Monte I, Hamberg M, Zamarreño AM, García-Mina JM, Franco-Zorrilla JM, Kato N, Ueda M, Rey-Stolle MF, Barbas C, Michavila S, Gimenez-Ibanez S, Jimenez-Aleman GH, Solano R. Ligand diversity contributes to the full activation of the jasmonate pathway in Marchantia polymorpha. PNAS (2022) 119: e2202930119

2021

Chini A, Monte I, Fernández-Barbero G, Boter M, Hicks G, Raikhel N, Solano R. A small molecule antagonizing JA-Ile perception and auxin responses in vascular and non-vascular plants. Plant Physiology (2021) 187:1399-1413.

2020

Monte I. Divergent plants, divergent functions for C1HDZ orthologs. Current Biology (2020) 30:R817-R819.

Monte I*, Kneeshaw S*, Franco-Zorrilla JM, Chini A, Zamarreño AM, García-Mina JM, Solano R. An ancient COI1-independent function for reactive electrophilic oxylipins in thermotolerance. Current Biology (2020) 30:962-971.

Li F-W, Nishiyama T, Waller M, Frangedakis E, Keller J, Li Z, Fernandez-Pozo N, Barker MS, Bennett T, Blázquez MA, Cheng S, Cuming AC, de Vries J, de Vries S, Delaux P-M, Diop IS, Harrison JC, Hauser D, Hernández-García J, Kirbis A, Meeks JC, Monte I, Mutte SK, Neubauer A, Quandt D, Robison T, Shimamura M, Rensing SA, Villarreal JC, Weijers D, Wicke S, Wong GK, Sakakibara K, Szövényi P. Anthoceros genomes illuminate the origin of land plants and the unique biology of hornworts. Nature Plants (2020) 6:259-272.

Matsui H, Iwakawa H, Hyon GS, Yotsui I, Katou S, Monte I, Nishihama R, Franzen R, Solano R, Nakagami H. Isolation of Natural Fungal Pathogens from Marchantia polymorpha Reveals Antagonism between Salicylic Acid and Jasmonate during LiverwortFungus Interactions. Plant Cell and Physiology (2020) 61:265-275.

2019

Peñuelas M, Monte I, Schweizer F, Vallat A, Reymond P, García-Casado G, Franco-Zorrilla JM, Solano R. Jasmonate-related MYC Transcription Factors are Functionally Conserved in Marchantia polymorpha. The Plant Cell (2019) 31:2491-2501.

Monte I, Franco-Zorrilla JM, García-Casado G, Zamarreño AM, García-Mina JM, Nishihama R, Kohchi T, Solano R. A single JAZ repressor controls the jasmonate pathway in Marchantia polymorpha. Molecular Plant (2019) 12:185-198.

2018

Monte I, Ishida S, Zamarreño AM, Hamberg M, Franco-Zorrilla JM, García-Casado G, Gouhier-Darimont C, Reymond P, Takahashi K, García-Mina JM, Nishihama R, Kohchi T, Solano R. Ligand-receptor co-evolution shaped the jasmonate pathway in land plants. Nature Chemical Biology (2018) 14:480-488.

Chini A, Monte I, Zamarreño AM, Hamberg M, Lassueur S, Reymond P, Weiss S, Stintzi A, Schaller A, Porzel A, García-Mina JM, Solano R. An OPR3-independent pathway uses 4, 5- didehydrojasmonate for jasmonate synthesis. Nature Chemical Biology (2018) 14:171-178.

2017

Bowman JL, Kohchi T, Yamato KT, Jenkins J, Shu S, Ishizaki K, Yamaoka S, Nishihama R, Nakamura Y, Berger F, Adam C, Aki SS, Althoff F, Araki T, Arteaga-Vazquez MA, Balasubrmanian S, Barry K, Bauer D, Boehm CR, Briginshaw L, Caballero-Perez J, Catarino B, Chen F, Chiyoda S, Chovatia M, Davies KM, Delmans M, Demura T, Dierschke T, Dolan L, Dorantes-Acosta AE, Eklund DM, Florent, SN, Flores-Sandoval E, Fujiyama A, Fukuzawa H, Galik B, Grimanelli D, Grimwood J, Grossniklaus U, Hamada T, Haseloff J, Hetherington AJ, Higo A, Hirakawa Y, Hundley HN, Ikeda Y, Inoue K, Inoue S-I, Ishida S, Jia Q, Kakita M, Kanazawa T, Kawai Y, Kawashima T, Kennedy M, Kinose K, Kinoshita T, Kohara Y, Koide E, Komatsu K, Kopischke S, Kubo M, Kyozuka J, Lagercrantz U, Lin S-S, Lindquist E, Lipzen AM, Lu C-W, De Luna E, Martienssen RA, Minamino N, Mizutani M, Mizutani M, Mochizuki N, Monte I, Mosher R, Nagasaki H, Nakagami H, Naramoto S, Nishitani K, Ohtani M, Okamoto T, Okumura M, Phillips J, Pollak B, Reinders A, Rövekamp M, Sano R, Sawa S, Schmid MW, Shirakawa M, Solano R, Spunde A, Suetsugu N, Sugano S, Sugiyama A, Sun R, Suzuki Y, Takenaka M, Takezawa D, Tomogane H, Tsuzuki M, Ueda T, Umeda M, Ward JM, Watanabe Y, Yazaki K, Yokoyama R, Yoshitake Y, Yotsui I, Zachgo S, Schmutz J. Insights into land plant evolution garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha genome. Cell (2017) 171:287-304.

2016

Böhm J, Scherzer S, Krol E, Kreuzer I, von Meyer K, Lorey C, Mueller TD, Shabala L, Monte I, Solano R, Al-Rasheid KAS, Rennenberg H, Shabala S, Neher E, Hedrich R. The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula counts prey-induced action potentials  to induce sodium uptake. Current Biology (2016) 26:1-10.

2014

Monte I, Hamberg M, Chini A, Gimenez-Ibanez S, García-Casado G, Porzel A, Pazos F, Boter M, Solano R. Rational design of a ligand-based antagonist of jasmonate perception. Nature Chemical Biology (2014) 10:671-676.

2012

Martinez-Becerra P, Monte I, Romero MR, Serrano MA, Vaquero J, Macias RIR, Del Rio A, Grañé-Boladeras N, Jimenez F, Gonzalez San-Martin F, Pastor-Anglada M, Marin JJG. Up- regulation of FXR isoforms is not required for stimulation of the expression of genes involved in the lack of response of colon cancer to chemotherapy. Pharmacological Research (2012) 66(5):419-27.