C. L. Cuevas-Velazquez, G. Saab-Rincón, J. L. Reyes, A. A. Covarrubias*. The unstructured N-terminal region of Arabidopsis group 4 Late Embryogenesis Abundant Proteins (LEA) is required for folding and for chaperone-like activity under water deficit Journal. of Biological Chemistry. 291: 1893-1903 (2016) doi: 10.1074/jbc.M116.720318

G. Sosa-Valencia, M. Palomar, A. A. Covarrubias, J. L. Reyes. The legume miR1514a modulates a NAC transcription factor transcript to trigger phasiRNA formation in response to drought. Journal of Experimental Botany. 68: 2013-2016 (2017) doi:10.1093/jxb/erw380

G. Sosa-Valencia, P. S. Romero-Pérez, M. Palomar, A. A. Covarrubias, J. L. Reyes. Insights into the function of the phasiRNA-triggering miR1514 in response to stress in legumes. Plant Signalling & Behavior. 12(3):e1284724 (2017) doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2017.1284724

C. L. Cuevas-Velazquez, J. L. Reyes, A. A. Covarrubias*. Group 4 Late Embryogenesis Abundant Proteins as a Model to Study Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Plants. Plant Signalling & Behavior. 12 (7): (2017) doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2017.1343777

M. R. Reyero-Saavedra, Z. Qiao, M. S. Sánchez-Correa, M. E. Díaz-Pineda, J. L. Reyes, A. A. Covarrubias, M. Libault, O. Valdés-López*. Gene silencing of Argonaute5 negatively affects the establishment of the legume-rhizobia symbiosis. Genes 8: 352 (2017) doi:10.3390/genes8120352

C. De la Rosa, A. A. Covarrubias, J. L. Reyes*. A dicistronic microRNA precursor encoding miR398 and miR2119 responds to drought in legumes. Plant Cell and Environment. 42: 133–144 doi.org/10.1111/pce.13209 (2018)

65. L. French-Pacheco, C.L. Cuevas-Velazquez, L. Rivillas-Acevedo, A. A. Covarrubias, Carlos Amero*. Metal-binding polymorphism in late embryogenesis abundant protein AtLEA4-5, an intrinsically disordered protein. Peer J 6:e4930 (2018) doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4930

66. R. Gente, A. Rehn, T. Probst, E.-M. Stübling, E. Castro-Camus, A. A. Covarrubias, J.C. Balzer, M. Koch*. Outdoor measurements of leaf water content using THz quasi time-domain spectroscopy. Journal of Infrared Milli Terahz Waves 39: 943–948 (2018) doi.org/10.1007/s10762-018-0520-4

67. A. Acosta-Maspons, I. González-Lemes I, A. A. Covarrubias*. Improved protocol for isolation of high-quality total RNA from different organs of Phaseolus vulgaris L. Bio Techniques. 66: 96-98 (2019) doi.org/10.2144/btn-2018-0129

M. C. Isidra-Arellano, E. A. Pozas-Rodríguez, M. R. Reyero-Saavedra, J. Arroyo-Canales, S. Ferrer-Orgaz, M. S. Sánchez-Correa, Luis Cardenas, A. A. Covarrubias, Oswaldo Valdés-López*. Inhibition of Legume Nodulation by Pi Deficiency is Dependent on the Autoregulation of Nodulation (AON) Pathway. The Plant Journal 103: 1125-1139 (2020) doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14789

D. Godínez-Vidal, G. López-Leal, A. A. Covarrubias*, J. L. Reyes*. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 178: 104172 (2020) doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104172

C. de La Rosa, L. Lozano, S. Castillo-Ramírez, A. A. Covarrubias, J. L. Reyes*. Origin and evolutionary dynamics of the miR2119 and ADH1 regulatory module in legumes. Genome Biology and Evolution 12: 2355–2369 (2020) doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaa205

A. A. Covarrubias*, P. S. Romero-Pérez, C. L. Cuevas-Velazquez, D. F. Rendón-Luna. The functional diversity of structural disorder in plant proteins. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 680: 108229 (2020) doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2019.108229

V. M. Palomar, A. Garciarrubio, A. Garay-Arroyo, C. Martínez-Martínez, O. Rosas-Bringas, J. L. Reyes, A. A. Covarrubias*. The canonical RdDM pathway mediates the control of seed germination timing under salinity. The Plant Journal 105: 691 – 707 (2021) doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15064

M. E. Battaglia, A. V. Martínez-Silva, Y. Olvera-Carrillo, T. D. Dinkova, A. A. Covarrubias*
Translational enhancement conferred by the 3’-untranslated region of a transcript encoding a group 6 late embryogenesis abundant protein. Environmental and Experimental Botany 182: 104310 (2021) doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104310

C. L. Cuevas-Velazquez*, T. Vellosillo, K. Guadalupe, H. B. Schmidt, F. Yu, D. Moses, J. A. N. Brophy, D. Cosío-Acosta, A. Das, L. Wang, A. M. Jones, A. A. Covarrubias*, S. Sukenik*, J. R. Dinneny*. Intrinsically disordered protein biosensor for tracking the effects of osmotic stress. Nature Communications (2021) doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25736-8.

L. French-Pacheco, O. Rosas-Bringas, L. Segovia, A. A. Covarrubias*. Intrinsically disordered signaling proteins: essential hub players in the control of stress responses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLOS ONE (2022)

J. A. Polania, V. Salazar-Chavarría, I. Gonzalez-Lemes, A. Acosta, C. C. C. Chater, A. A. Covarrubias. Contrasting Phaseolus crop water use patterns and stomatal dynamics in response to terminal drought. Frontiers in Plant Science. En revisión (2022)

A. A. Covarrubias*, C. L. Cuevas-Velazquez, P. S. Romero-Pérez, D. F. Rendón-Luna, C. C. Chater. Structural disorder in plant proteins: where plasticity meets sessility. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 74 (17): 3119-3147 (2017) doi.org/10.1007/s00018-017-2557-2

M. B. Pérez-Morales, A. A. Covarrubias, J. L. Reyes. The key role of small RNAs in the making of a leaf. Indian Journal of Plant Physiology. 22: 393-400 (2017) DOI: 10.1007/s40502-017-0340-x

C. C. Chater, A. Acosta-Maspon, A. A. Covarrubias. Crop biotechnology for improving drought tolerance: targets, approaches, and outcomes. Annual Plant Reviews. 2: 1-39 (2019) doi: 10.1002/9781119312994.apr0669

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