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2021 - 2024

Synthetically induced Arabidopsis thaliana autotetraploids provide insights into the analysis of meiotic mutants with altered crossover frequency

Parra-Nunez P, Fernández-Jiménez N, Pachon-Penalba M, Sanchez-Moran E, Pradillo M, Santos JL

New Phytol. 2024 Jan;241(1):197-208. doi: 10.1111/nph.19366. Epub 2023 Nov 3.

The scaffold nucleoporins SAR1 and SAR3 are essential for proper meiotic progression in Arabidopsis thaliana

Fernández-Jiménez N, Martinez-Garcia M, Varas J, Gil-Dones F, Luis Santos JL, Pradillo M

Front Cell Dev Biol. 2023 Dec 4:11:1285695. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1285695. eCollection 2023.

The Arabidopsis Hop1 homolog ASY1 mediates cross-over assurance and interference

Pochon G, Henry IM, Yang C, Lory N, Fernández-Jiménez N, Böwer F, Hu B, Carstens L, Tsai HT, Pradillo M, Comai L, Schnittger A

PNAS Nexus. 2022 Dec 30;2(3):pgac302. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac302. eCollection 2023 Mar.

Exploitation of epigenetic variation of crop wild relatives for crop improvement and agrobiodiversity preservation

Varotto S, Krugman T, Cigliano RA, Kashkush K, Kondić-Špika A, Aravanopoulos FA, Pradillo M, Consiglio F, Aversano R, Pecinka A, Miladinović D

Theor Appl Genet. 2022 Nov;135(11):3987-4003. doi: 10.1007/s00122-022-04122-y. Epub 2022 Jun 9.

The INDEPTH (Impact of Nuclear Domains on Gene Expression and Plant Traits) Academy: a community resource for plant science

Tatout C, Mougeot G, Parry G, Baroux C, Pradillo M, Evans D

J Exp Bot. 2022 Apr 5;73(7):1926-1933. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erac005.

Editorial: Meiotic Recombination and DNA Repair: New Approaches to Solve Old Questions in Model and Non-model Plant Species

Da Ines O, Choi K, Pradillo M, Lambing C

Front Plant Sci. 2022 Feb 9:13:841402. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.841402. eCollection 2022.

Genomic and Meiotic Changes Accompanying Polyploidization

Blasio F, Prieto P, Pradillo M, Naranjo T

Plants (Basel). 2022 Jan 3;11(1):125. doi: 10.3390/plants11010125.

Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes 5/6 Complex Is Necessary for Tetraploid Genome Stability in Arabidopsis thaliana

Yang F, Fernández Jiménez N, Majka J, Pradillo M, Pecinka A

Front Plant Sci. 2021 Oct 5:12:748252. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.748252. eCollection 2021.

Defects in meiotic chromosome segregation lead to unreduced male gametes in Arabidopsis SMC5/6 complex mutants

Yang F,  Fernández-Jiménez N, Tučková M, Vrána J,  Cápal P, Díaz M, Pradillo M, Pecinka A

Plant Cell. 2021 Sep 24;33(9):3104-3119. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koab178.

Natural variation identifies SNI1, the SMC5/6 component, as a modifier of meiotic crossover in Arabidopsis

Zhu L, Fernández-Jiménez N, Szymanska-Lejman M, Pelé A, Underwood CJ, Serra H, Lambing C, Dluzewska J, Bieluszewski T, Pradillo M, Henderson IR, Ziolkowski PA

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Aug 17;118(33): e2021970118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2021970118.

2020 - 2016

Duplication and divergence: New insights into AXR1 and AXL functions in DNA repair and meiosis

Martinez-Garcia M, Fernández-Jiménez N, Santos JL, Pradillo M

Sci Rep​. 2020 Jun 1;10(1):8860. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65734-2.

Chromatin dynamics during interphase and cell division: similarities and differences between model and crop plants

Pecinka A, Chevalier C, Colas I, Kalantidis K, Varotto S, Krugman T, Michaelidis C, Vallés MP, Muñoz A, Pradillo M

J Exp Bot. 2020 Aug 17;71(17):5205-5222. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erz457.

Editorial: Advances in Plant Meiosis: From Model Species to Crops

Naranjo T, Chen C, Cheng Z, Pradillo M

Front Plant Sci 10:1627. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01627.

Karyotype evolution in Helianthemum (Cistaceae): dysploidy, achiasmate meiosis and ecological specialization in H. squamatum, a true gypsophile

Aparicio A, Escudero M, Valdés-Florido A, Pachón M, Rubio E, Albaladejo RG, Martín-Herranz S, Pradillo M

Bot J Linn Soc 191:484-501. doi: 10.1093/botlinnean/boz066.

The Cdk1/Cdk2 homolog CDKA;1 controls the recombination landscape in Arabidopsis

Wijnker E, Harashima H, Müller K, Parra-Nuñez P, de Snoo CB, van de Belt J, Dissmeyer N, Bayer M, Pradillo M, Schnittger A

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2019 Jun 18;116(25):12534-12539. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1820753116. Epub 2019 Jun 4.

The nuclear envelope in higher plant mitosis and meiosis

Evans D, Pradillo M, Graumann K

Nucleus. 2019 Dec;10(1):55-66. doi: 10.1080/19491034.2019.1587277. Epub 2019 Mar 17.

Competition for chiasma formation between identical and homologous (but not identical) chromosomes in synthetic autotetraploids of Arabidopsis thaliana

Parra-Núñez P, Pradillo M, Santos JL

Front Plant Sci. 2019 Jan 9;9:1924. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01924. eCollection 2018.

Genes involved in miRNA biogenesis affects meiosis and fertility

Pradillo M, Santos JL

Chromosome Res 26:233-241. doi: 10.1007/s10577-018-9588-x.

Insights into the role of ubiquitination in meiosis: fertility, adaptation and plant breeding

Bolaños-Villegas P, Xu W, Martinez-Garcia M, Pradillo M, Wang Y

The Arabidopsis Book (The American Society of Plant Biologists) 16:e0187. doi: 10.1199/tab.0187.

Arabidopsis thaliana FANCD2 promotes meiotic crossover formation

Kurzbauer MT, Pradillo M, Kerzendorfer C, Sims J, Ladurner R, Oliver C, Janisiw MP, Mosiolek M, Schweizer D, Copenhaver GP, Schlogelhofer P

Plant Cell 30:415-428. doi: 10.1105/tpc.17.00745.

Immunolabeling Protocols for Studying Meiosis in Plant Mutants Defective for Nuclear Envelope Components

Varas J, Pradillo M

Methods Mol Biol. 2018:1840:237-247. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8691-0_17.

Functional Analysis of Arabidopsis ARGONAUTEs in Meiosis and DNA Repair

Martínez-García M, Pradillo M

Methods Mol Biol. 2017:1640:145-158. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7165-7_10.

Loss of function of Arabidopsis microRNA-machinery genes impairs fertility, and has effects on homologous recombination and meiotic chromatin dynamics

Oliver C, Pradillo M, Jover-Gil S, Cuñado N, Ponce MR, Santos JL

Sci Rep 7:9280. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-07702-x.

In favor of establishment: Regulation of chromatid cohesion in plants

Bolaños-Villegas P, De K, Pradillo M, Liu D, Makaroff CA

Front Plant Sci 8:846. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00846.

The absence of the Arabidopsis chaperone complex CAF-1 produces mitotic chromosome abnormalities and changes in the expression profiles of genes involved in DNA repair

Varas J, Santos JL, Pradillo M

Front Plant Sci 8:525. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00525.

Accurate chromosome segregation at first meiotic division requires AGO4, a protein involved in RNA-dependent DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Oliver C, Santos JL, Pradillo M

Genetics 204:543-553. Highlighted article. doi: 10.1534/genetics.116.189217.

2015 - 2011

Analysis of the relationships between double-strand breaks, synaptonemal complex and crossovers using the Atfas1-4 mutant

Varas J, Sánchez-Morán E, Copenhaver GP, Santos JL, Pradillo M

PLoS Genet 11:e1005301. Cover of the journal in the month of July. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005301.

Involvement of the cohesin cofactor PDS5 (SPO76) during meiosis and DNA repair in Arabidopsis thaliana

Pradillo M, Knoll A, Oliver C, Varas J, Corredor E, Puchta H, Santos JL

Front Plant Sci 6:1034. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01034.

Absence of SUN1 and SUN2 proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana leads to a delay in meiotic progression and defects in synapsis and recombination

Varas J, Graumann K, Osman K, Pradillo M, Evans DE, Santos JL, Armstrong SJ

Plant J 81:329-346. doi: 10.1111/tpj.12730.

On the role of some ARGONAUTE proteins in meiosis and DNA repair in Arabidopsis thaliana

Oliver C, Santos JL, Pradillo M

Front Plant Sci 5:177. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00177.

On the role of AtDMC1, AtRAD51 and its paralogs during Arabidopsis meiosis

Pradillo M, Varas J, Oliver C, Santos JL

Front Plant Sci 5:23. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00023.

The dynamics of histone H3 modifications is species-specific in plant meiosis

Oliver C, Pradillo M, Corredor E, Cuñado N

Planta 238:23-33. doi: 10.1007/s00425-013-1885-1.

FANCM limits meiotic crossovers

Crismani W, Girard C, Froger N, Pradillo M, Santos JL, Chelysheva L, Copenhaver GP, Horlow C, Mercier R

Science. 2012 Jun 22;336(6088):1588-90. doi: 10.1126/science.1220381.

Inter-homolog recombination and synapsis in Arabidopsis meiosis is dependent on the chromosome axis protein AtASY3

Ferdous M, Higgins JD, Osman K, Lambing C, Roitinger E, Mechtler K, Armstrong SJ, Perry R, Pradillo M, Cuñado N, Franklin FCH

PLoS Genet. 2012 Feb;8(2):e1002507. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002507. Epub 2012 Feb 2

Together yes, but not coupled: new insights into the roles of RAD51 and DMC1 in plant meiotic recombination

Pradillo M, López E, Linacero R, Romero C, Cuñado N, Sánchez-Morán E, Santos JL

Plant J. 2012 Mar;69(6):921-33. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04845.x. Epub 2011 Dec 15.

Looking for natural variation in chiasma frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana

López E, Pradillo M, Oliver C, Romero C, Cuñado N, Santos JL

J Exp Bot. 2012 Jan;63(2):887-94. doi: 10.1093/jxb/err319. Epub 2011 Nov 2.

The template choice decision in meiosis: is the sister important?

Pradillo M, Santos JL

Chromosoma. 2011 Oct;120(5):447-54. doi: 10.1007/s00412-011-0336-7. Epub 2011 Aug 9.

2010 - 2006

Meiosis in Stethophyma (Mecostethus) grossum (Orthoptera: Acrididae): An exciting history

Viera A, Calvente A, Pradillo M, Rufas JS, Santos JL

Journal of Orthoptera Research. 2010 Dec; 19:267-273. doi: 10.1665/034.019.0213

Pairing and synapsis in wild type Arabidopsis thaliana

López E, Pradillo M, Romero C, Santos JL, Cuñado N

Chromosome Res. 2008;16(5):701-8. doi: 10.1007/s10577-008-1220-z. Epub 2008 May 8.

ASY1 coordinates early events in the plant meiotic recombination pathway

Sánchez-Morán E, Osman K, Higgins JD, Pradillo M, Cuñado N, Jones GH, Franklin FCH

Cytogenet Genome Res. 2008;120(3-4):302-12. doi: 10.1159/000121079. Epub 2008 May 23.

An analysis of univalent segregation in meiotic mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana: a possible role for synaptonemal complex

Pradillo M, López E, Romero C, Sánchez-Morán E, Cuñado N, Santos JL

Genetics. 2007 Feb;175(2):505-11. doi: 10.1534/genetics.106.067595. Epub 2006 Dec 6.

Understanding the cytological diploidization mechanism of polyploid wild wheats

Cuñado N, Blázquez S, Melchor L, Pradillo M, Santos JL

Cytogenet Genome Res. 2005;109(1-3):205-9. doi: 10.1159/000082401.

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