Ricardo Mir, Antonio Calabuig-Serna and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2023). Plant somatic embryogenesis - a focus on the role of calcium in embryo induction and development. Scientific Bulletin, Series F. Biotechnologies, 27 (1): 30–42.
[Open Access].

Antonio Calabuig-Serna, Ricardo Mir, Rosa Porcel and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2023). The highly embryogenic Brassica napus DH4079 line is recalcitrant to Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation. Plants, 12 (10): 2008.
doi: 10.3390/plants12102008. [Open Access]

Antonio Calabuig-Serna, Ricardo Mir, Paloma Arjona and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2023). Calcium dynamics and modulation in carrot somatic embryogenesis. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14: 1150198.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1150198. [Open Access].

Antonio Calabuig-Serna, Ricardo Mir and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2023). Calcium dynamics, WUSCHEL expression and callose deposition during somatic embryogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana immature zygotic embryos. Plants, 12(5): 1021.
doi: 10.3390/plants12051021. [Open Access]

Hilal Bedir, Esin Ari, Gulsun Elif Vural and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2022). Effect of the genotype, explant source and culture medium in somatic embryogenesis and organogenesis in Vaccaria hispanica (Mill.) Rauschert. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 150: 329–343.
doi: 10.1007/s11240-022-02275-8. [Open Access].

Antonio Calabuig-Serna, Carolina Camacho-Fernández, Ricardo Mir, Rosa Porcel, Esther Carrera, Isabel López Díaz and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2022). Quantitative and qualitative study of endogenous and exogenous growth regulators in eggplant (Solanum melongena) microspore cultures. Plant Growth Regulation, 96(2): 345–355.
doi: 10.1007/s10725-021-00780-y. [Open Access].

Esin Ari, Hilal Bedir, İsmail Gokhan Deniz, Ilker Genc and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2022). Evaluation of the androgenic competence of 66 wild Turkish Vaccaria hispanica (Mill.) Rauschert genotypes through microspore culture. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 148(1): 209-214.
doi: 10.1007/s11240-021-02169-1.

Carolina Camacho Fernández, Jose M. Seguí-Simarro, Ricardo Mir, Kim Boutilier and Patricia Corral-Martínez (2021). Cell wall composition and structure define the developmental fate of embryogenic microspores in Brassica napus. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12: 2260.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.737139. [Open Access].

Ricardo Mir, Antonio Calabuig-Serna and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2021). Doubled haploids in eggplant. Biology. Special issue: Crop Improvement Now and Beyond, 10:685.
doi: 10.3390/biology10070685. [Open Access].

Sara Sohrabi, Mohammad Reza Abdollahi, Asghar Mirzaie-Asl, Hassan Ebrahimi Koulaei, Mohsen Aghaeezadeh and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2021). A refined method for ovule culture in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.). Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 146(2):259–267.
doi: 10.1007/s11240-021-02065-8.

Alba Rivas-Sendra, Patricia Corral-Martínez, Carolina Camacho-Fernández, Rosa Porcel and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2020). Effects of growth conditions of donor plants and in vitro culture environment in the embryogenic response of microspores of different eggplant genotypes. Euphytica, 216(11):167.
doi: 10.1007/s10681-020-02709-4.

Claudia M. Liberatore, Antonio Calabuig-Serna, Margherita Rodolfi, Benedetta Chiancone and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2019). Phenological phases of flowering in hop (Humulus lupulus L.) and their correspondence with microsporogenesis and microgametogenesis. Scientia Horticulturae, 256: 108639.
doi: 10.1016/j.scienta.2019.108639. [Open Access].

Patricia Corral-Martínez, Azeddine Driouich and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2019). Dynamic changes in arabinogalactan-protein, pectin, xyloglucan and xylan composition of the cell wall during microspore embryogenesis in Brassica napus. Journal of Experimental Botany, 10: 332.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00332. [Open Access].

Javier Pozueta-Romero, Abdellatif Bahaji, Francisco José Muñoz, Jose M. Seguí-Simarro, Carolina Camacho-Fernández, Alba Rivas-Sendra, Verónica Parra-Vega, Miroslav Ovecka, Jun Li, Ángela María Sánchez-López, Goizeder Almagro and Edurne Baroja-Fernández (2019). Zea mays Brittle1-1 is a major determinant of the metabolic fate of incoming sucrose and mitochondrial function in developing maize endosperms. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10: 242.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00242. [Open Access].

Alba Rivas-Sendra, Patricia Corral-Martínez, Rosa Porcel, Carolina Camacho-Fernández, Antonio Calabuig-Serna and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2019). Embryogenic competence of microspores is associated to their ability to form a callosic, osmoprotective subintinal layer. Frontiers in Plant Science, 70(4): 1267–1281.
doi: 10.3389/jxb/ery458. [Open Access].

Abouzar Asadi, Alireza Zebarjadi, Mohammad Reza Abdollahi and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2018). Assessment of different anther culture approaches to produce doubled haploids in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). Euphytica, 214: 216.
doi: 10.1007/s10681-018-2297-x.

Carolina Camacho-Fernández, David Hervás, Alba Rivas-Sendra, Mª Pilar Marín and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2018). Comparison of six different methods to calculate cell densities. Plant Methods, 14:30.
doi: 10.1186/s13007-018-0297-4. [Open Access].

Alba Rivas-Sendra, Antonio Calabuig-Serna and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2017). Dynamics of calcium during in vitro microspore embryogenesis and in vivo microspore development in Brassica napus and Solanum melongena. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8:1177.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01177. [Open Access].

Zahra Sanaey Hoveida, Mohammad Reza Abdollahi, Asghar Mirzaie Asl, Sayyed Saeed Moosavi and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2017). Production of doubled haploid plants from anther cultures of borage (Borago officinalis L.) by the application of chemical and physical stress. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 130(2): 369-378.
doi: 10.1007/s11240-017-1233-4.

Alba Rivas-Sendra, Manuel Campos-Vega, Antonio Calabuig-Serna and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2017). Development and characterization of an eggplant (Solanum melongena) doubled haploid population and a doubled haploid line with high androgenic response. Euphytica, 213(4): 89.
doi: 10.1007/s10681-017-1879-3.

Lourdes Gómez-Gómez, Verónica Parra-Vega, Alba Rivas-Sendra, Jose M. Seguí-Simarro, Rosa Victoria Molina, Claudia Pallotti, Ángela Rubio-Moraga, Gianfranco Direto, Alicia Prieto, Oussama Ahrazem (2017). Unravelling massive crocins transport and accumulation through proteome and microscopy tools during the development of saffron stigma. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 18: 76.
doi: 10.3390/ijms18010076. [Open Access].

Brice Kouassi, Jaime Prohens, Pietro Gramazio, Abou B. Kouassi, Santiago Vilanova, Alberto Galán-Ávila, Francisco J. Herraiz, Auguste Kouassi, Jose M. Seguí-Simarro, Mariola Plazas (2016). Development of backcross generations from interspecific hybrids and new hybrid combinations for introgression breeding in eggplant (Solanum melongena). Scientia Horticulturae, 213: 199–207.
doi: 10.1016/j.scienta.2016.10.039.

Patricia Corral-Martínez, Edgar García-Fortea, Sophie Bernard, Azeddine Driouich, and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2016). Ultrastructural immunolocalization of arabinogalactan protein, pectin and hemicellulose epitopes through anther development in Brassica napus. Plant & Cell Physiology, 57(10): 2161-2174.
doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcw133.

Saeed Ghambarali, Mohammad R. Abdollahi, Haidar Zolnorian, Sayyed S. Mussavi and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro(2016). Optimization of the conditions for production of synthetic seeds by encapsulation of axillary buds derived from minituber sprouts in potato (Solanum tuberosum). Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 126: 449-458.
doi: 10.1007/s11240-016-1013-6.

Daniel J Klionsky + 2333 more authors, alphabetically arranged (2016). Guidelines for the Use and Interpretation of Assays for Monitoring Autophagy (3rd edition). Autophagy, 12(1): 1-222.
doi: 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356.

Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2015). Doubled haploidy in model and recalcitrant species. Frontiers in Plant Science, 6: 1175.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01018. [Open Access].

Verónica Parra-Vega, Patricia Corral-Martínez, Alba Rivas-Sendra and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2015). Induction of embryogenesis in Brassica napus microspores produces a callosic subintinal layer and abnormal cell walls with altered levels of callose and cellulose. Frontiers in Plant Science, 6: 1018.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01018. [Open Access].

Alba Rivas-Sendra, Patricia Corral-Martínez, Carolina Camacho-Fernández and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2015). Improved regeneration of eggplant doubled haploids from microspore-derived calli through organogenesis. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 122 (3): 759-765.
doi: 10.1007/s11240-015-0791-6.

Zahra Chardoli Eshaghi, Mohammad Reza Abdollahi, Sayyed Saeed Moosavi, Ali Deljou and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2015). Induction of androgenesis and production of haploid embryos in anther cultures of borage (Borago officinalis L.). Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 122 (2):321–329.
doi: 10.1007/s11240-015-0768-5.

Verónica Parra-Vega, Patricia Corral-Martínez, Alba Rivas-Sendra and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2015). Formation and excretion of autophagic plastids (plastolysomes) in Brassica napus embryogenic microspores. Frontiers in Plant Science, 6: 94.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00094. [Open Access].

Patricia Corral-Martínez and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2014). Refining the method for eggplant microspore culture: effect of abscisic acid, epibrassinolide, polyethylene glycol, naphthaleneacetic acid, 6-benzylaminopurine and arabinogalactan proteins. Euphytica,195 (3): 369-382.
doi: 10.1007/s10681-013-1001-4.

Patricia Corral-Martínez, Verónica Parra-Vega and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2013). Novel features of Brassica napus embryogenic microspores revealed by high pressure freezing and freeze substitution: evidence for massive autophagy and excretion-based cytoplasmic cleaning. Journal of Experimental Botany, 64(10): 3061-3075.
doi: 10.1093/jxb/ert151.

Ruth Sanz-Barrio, Patricia Corral-Martínez, María Ancin, Jose M. Seguí-Simarro and Inmaculada Farran (2013). Overexpression of plastidial thioredoxin f leads to enhanced starch accumulation in tobacco leaves. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 11 (5): 618–627.
doi: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2013.01.013.

Verónica Parra-Vega, Begoña Renau-Morata, Alicia Sifres and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2013) Stress treatments and in vitro culture conditions influence microspore embryogenesis and growth of callus from anther walls of sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 112 (3): 353-360. 
doi: 10.1007/s11240-012-0242-6.

Renau-Morata B., Moyá L., Nebauer S.G., Seguí-Simarro J.M., Parra-Vega V., Gómez M.D. and Molina R.V. (2013) The use of corms produced under storage at low temperatures as a source of explants for the in vitro propagation of saffron reduces contamination levels and increases multiplication rates. Industrial Crops and Products, 46: 97-104.
doi: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2013.01.013.

Verónica Parra-Vega, Beatriz González-García and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2013). Morphological markers to correlate bud and anther development with microsporogenesis and microgametogenesis in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 35 (2): 627-633.
doi: 10.1007/s11738-012-1104-x.

Patricia Corral-Martínez and Jose M. Seguí-Simarro (2012). Efficient production of callus-derived doubled haploids through isolated microspore culture in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.). Euphytica, 187(1): 47-61.
doi: 10.1007/s10681-012-0715-z.

M.R. Abdollahi, P. Ghazanfari, P. Corral-Martínez, A. Moieni and J.M. Seguí-Simarro (2012). Enhancing secondary embryogenesis in Brassica napus by selecting hypocotyl-derived embryos and using plant-derived smoke extract in culture medium. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 110(2): 307-315.
doi: 10.1007/s11240-012-0152-7.

Jaime Prohens, Mariola Plazas, María D. Raigón, José M. Seguí-Simarro, John R. Stommel and Santiago Vilanova (2012). Characterization of interspecific hybrids and backcross generations from crosses between two cultivated eggplants (Solanum melongena and S. aethiopicum Kumba group) and implications for eggplant breeding. Euphytica, 186 (2): 517-538.
doi: 10.1007/s10681-012-0652-x.

Pablo Salas, Alba Rivas-Sendra, Jaime Prohens and José M. Seguí-Simarro (2012). Influence of the stage for anther excission and heterostyly in embryogenesis induction from eggplant anther cultures. Euphytica, 184(2): 235-250.  
doi: 10.1007/s10681-011-0569-9.

Ruth Sanz-Barrio, Alicia Fernández-San Millán, Jon Carballeda, Patricia Corral-Martínez, José M. Seguí-Simarro and Inmaculada Farran (2012). Chaperone-like properties of tobacco plastid thioredoxins f and m. Journal of Experimental Botany, 63(1): 365-379.
doi: 10.1093/jxb/err282.

Pablo Salas, Jaime Prohens and José M. Seguí-Simarro (2011). Evaluation of androgenic competence through anther culture in common eggplant and related species. Euphytica, 182(2): 261-274.
doi: 10.1007/s10681-011-0490-2.

Sanz-Barrio, Ruth, Alicia Fernández-San Millán, Patricia Corral-Martínez, José M. Seguí-Simarro and Inmaculada Farran. (2011). Tobacco plastidial thioredoxins as modulators of recombinant protein production in transgenic chloroplasts. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 9 (6): 639-650.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2011.00608.x.

Ana M. Fortes, Joana Costa, Filipa Santos, José M. Seguí-Simarro, Alexandra Cordeiro, Klaus Palme, Teresa Altabella, Antonio F. Tiburcio, Maria S. Pais (2011). Arginine Decarboxylase expression, polyamines biosynthesis and reactive oxygen species during organogenic nodule formation in hop. Plant Signaling and Behavior. Special Issue on “Plant Abiotic Stress”. 6 (2): 258-269.
doi: 10.4161/psb.6.2.14503.

José M. Seguí-Simarro, Patricia Corral-Martínez, Verónica Parra-Vega and Beatriz González García (2011). Androgenesis in recalcitrant solanaceous crops. Plant Cell Reports. Special issue – Plant Biotechnology in Support of the Millennium Development Goals, 30 (5): 765-778.
doi: 10.1007/s00299-010-0984-8.

Corral-Martínez, P., Nuez, F. and J.M. Seguí-Simarro (2011). Genetic, quantitative and microscopic evidence for fusion of haploid nuclei and growth of somatic calli in cultured ms1035 tomato anthers. Euphytica, 178 (2): 215-228.
doi: 10.1007/s10681-010-0303-z.

J.M. Seguí-Simarro, P. Corral-Martínez, E. Corredor, I. Raska, P.S. Testillano and M.C. Risueño (2011). A change of developmental program induces the remodelling of the interchromatin domain during microspore embryogenesis in Brassica napus L. Journal of Plant Physiology. 168 (8): 746-757.
doi: 10.1016/j.jplph.2010.10.014.

José M. Seguí-Simarro (2010) Androgenesis revisited. The Botanical Review. 76 (3): 377-404.
doi: 10.1007/s12229-010-9056-6.

M.R. Abdollahi, P. Corral-Martínez, A. Mousavi, A.H. Salmanian, A. Moieni and J.M. Seguí-Simarro (2009). An efficient method for transformation of pre-androgenic, isolated Brassica napus microspores involving microprojectile bombardment and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum. 31 (6): 1313-1317.
doi: 10.1007/s11738-009-0365-5.

José M. Seguí-Simarro and L. Andrew Staehelin (2009). Mitochondrial reticulation in shoot apical meristem cells of Arabidopsis provides a mechanism for homogenization of mtDNA prior to gamete formation. Plant Signaling and Behavior. 4(3): 168-171.
doi: 10.4161/psb.4.3.7755.

José M. Seguí-Simarro, María José Coronado, and L. Andrew Staehelin (2008). The mitochondrial cycle of Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem and leaf primordium meristematic cells is defined by a perinuclear tentaculate/cage-like mitochondrion. Plant Physiology. 148(3): 1380-1393.
doi: 10.1104/pp.108.126953.

Seguí-Simarro, J.M. and Nuez, F. (2008). How microspores transform into haploid embryos: changes associated with embryogenesis induction and microspore-derived embryogenesis. Physiologia Plantarum. 134: 1–12.
doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2008.01113.x.

Alicia Fernández-San Millán, Susana M. Ortigosa, Sandra Hervás-Stubbs, Patricia Corral-Martínez, José M. Seguí-Simarro, Julien Gaétan, Pierre Coursaget and Jon Veramendi (2008). Human papillomavirus L1 protein expressed in tobacco chloroplasts self-assembles into virus-like particles that are highly immunogenic. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 6 (5): 427-441.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2008.00338.x.

Seguí-Simarro, J.M. and Nuez, F. (2008). Pathways to doubled haploidy: chromosome doubling during androgenesis. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 120 (3-4): 358-369.
doi: 10.1159/000121085.

Seguí-Simarro, J.M. and Nuez, F. (2007). Embryogenesis induction, callogenesis and plant regeneration by in vitro culture of tomato isolated microspores and whole anthers. Journal of Experimental Botany. 58 (5): 1119-1132.
doi: 10.1093/jxb/erl271.

Seguí-Simarro, J.M., Barany, I., Suárez, R., Testillano, P.S., Fadón, B. and Risueño, M.C. (2006). The nuclear bodies domain changes with microspore reprogramming to embryogenesis. European Journal of histochemistry. 50 (1): 35-44.
doi: 10.4081/973.

Seguí-Simarro, J.M. and Staehelin, L.A. (2006). Cell cycle-dependent changes in Golgi stacks, vacuoles, clathrin-coated vesicles and multivesicular bodies in meristematic cells of Arabidopsis thaliana: a quantitative and spatial analysis. Planta. 223(2): 223-236.
doi: 10.1007/s00425-005-0082-2.

Seguí-Simarro, J.M. and Nuez, F. (2005). Meiotic metaphase I to telophase II as the most responsive stage during microspore development for callus induction in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) anther cultures. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum. 27 (4B): 675-685.
doi: 10.1007/s11738-005-0071-x.

Satpute, G., Long, H., Seguí-Simarro, J.M., Risueño, M.C., Testillano, P.S. (2005). Cell architecture during gametophytic and embryogenic microspore development in Brassica napus. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum. 27 (4B): 665-674.
doi: 10.1007/s11738-005-0070-y.

LA Staehelin, JR Austin, BS Donohoe, ZR Gergely, B-H Kang, MS Otegui and JM Segui-Simarro (2005). Electron Tomographic Analysis of the Assembly of cis-Golgi cisternae and of Cell Plates. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 11 (Suppl.2): 1134-1135. 
doi: 10.1017/S1431927605504446.

Austin, J., Seguí-Simarro, J.M., and Staehelin. (2005). Quantitative analysis of changes in spatial distribution and plus-end geometry of microtubules involved in plant-cell cytokinesis. Journal of Cell Science. 118: 3895-3903.
doi: 10.1242/jcs.02512.

Seguí-Simarro, J.M., Testillano, P.S. and Risueño, M.C. (2005). Mitogen-activated protein kinases are developmentally regulated during stress-induced microspore embryogenesis in Brassica napus L. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 123: 541-551.
doi: 10.1007/s00418-004-0749-y.

Testillano, P.S., González-Melendi, P., Coronado, M.J., Seguí-Simarro, J.M., Moreno, M.A and Risueño, M.C. (2005). Differentiating plant cells switched to proliferation remodel the functional organization of nuclear domains. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 109 (1-3): 166-174.
doi: 10.1159/000082396.

Seguí-Simarro, J.M., Austin, J.R., White, E.A. and Staehelin, L.A. (2004). Electron tomographic analysis of somatic cell plate formation in meristematic cells of Arabidopsis preserved by high pressure freezing. The Plant Cell, 16: 836-856.
doi: 10.1105/tpc.017749.