Publications of I. Balbo

Tohge, T., Scossa, F., Wendenburg, R., Frasse, P., Balbo, I., Watanabe, M., Alseekh, S., Jadha, S. S., Delfin, J. C., Lohse, M., Giavalisco, P., Usadel, B., Zhang, Y. J., Luo, J., Bouzayen, M. & Fernie, A. R. Exploiting natural variation in tomato to define pathway structure and metabolic regulation of fruit polyphenolics in the lycopersicum complex. Molecular Plant 13, 1027–1046 (2020).

Dominguez, P. G., Frankel, N., Mazuch, J., Balbo, I., Iusem, N. D., Fernie, A. R. & Carrari, F. Asr1 Mediates Glucose-Hormone Crosstalk by Affecting Sugar Trafficking in Tobacco Plants. Plant Physiology 161, 1486–1500 (2013).

Araujo, W. L., Tohge, T., Osorio, S., Lohse, M., Balbo, I., Krahnert, I., Sienkiewicz-Porzucek, A., Usadel, B., Nunes-Nesi, A. & Fernie, A. R. Antisense Inhibition of the 2-Oxoglutarate Dehydrogenase Complex in Tomato Demonstrates Its Importance for Plant Respiration and during Leaf Senescence and Fruit Maturation. The Plant Cell 24, 2328–2351 (2012).

Araujo, W. L., Ishizaki, K., Nunes-Nesi, A., Tohge, T., Larson, T. R., Krahnert, I., Balbo, I., Witt, S., Doermann, P., Graham, I. A., Leaver, C. J. & Fernie, A. R. Analysis of a Range of Catabolic Mutants Provides Evidence That Phytanoyl-Coenzyme A Does Not Act as a Substrate of the Electron-Transfer Flavoprotein/Electron-Transfer Flavoprotein:Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase Complex in Arabidopsis during Dark-Induced Senescence. Plant Physiology 157, 55–69 (2011).

Araujo, W. L., Nunes-Nesi, A., Osorio, S., Usadel, B., Fuentes, D., Nagy, R., Balbo, I., Lehmann, M., Studart-Witkowski, C., Tohge, T., Martinoia, E., Jordana, X., DaMatta, F. M. & Fernie, A. R. Antisense Inhibition of the Iron-Sulphur Subunit of Succinate Dehydrogenase Enhances Photosynthesis and Growth in Tomato via an Organic Acid-Mediated Effect on Stomatal Aperture. The Plant Cell 23, 600–627 (2011).

Hannah, M. A., Caldana, C., Steinhauser, D., Balbo, I., Fernie, A. R. & Willmitzer, L. Combined Transcript and Metabolite Profiling of Arabidopsis Grown under Widely Variant Growth Conditions Facilitates the Identification of Novel Metabolite-Mediated Regulation of Gene Expression. Plant Physiology 152, 2120–2129 (2010).

van der Merwe, M. J., Osorio, S., Araujo, W. L., Balbo, I., Nunes-Nesi, A., Maximova, E., Carrari, F., Bunik, V. I., Persson, S. & Fernie, A. R. Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Activity Regulates Tomato Root Growth via Effects on Secondary Cell Wall Production. Plant Physiology 153, 611–621 (2010).

Schauer, N., Semel, Y., Balbo, I., Steinfath, M., Repsilber, D., Selbig, J., Pleban, T., Zamir, D. & Fernie, A. R. Mode of inheritance of primary metabolic traits in tomato. The Plant Cell 20, 509–523 (2008).

Frankel, N., Nunes-Nesi, A., Balbo, I., Mazuch, J., Centeno, D., Iusem, N. D., Fernie, A. R. & Carrari, F. ci21A/Asr1 expression influences glucose accumulation in potato tubers. Plant Molecular Biology 63, 719–730 (2007).

Schauer, N., Semel, Y., Roessner, U., Gur, A., Balbo, I., Carrari, F., Pleban, T., Perez-Melis, A., Bruedigam, C., Kopka, J., Willmitzer, L., Zamir, D. & Fernie, A. R. Comprehensive metabolic profiling and phenotyping of interspecific introgression lines for tomato improvement. Nature Biotechnology 24, 447–454 (2006).

Carrari, F., Coll-Garcia, D., Schauer, N., Lytovchenko, A., Palacios-Rojas, N., Balbo, I., Rosso, M. & Fernie, A. R. Deficiency of a plastidial adenylate kinase in Arabidopsis results in elevated photosynthetic amino acid biosynthesis and enhanced growth. Plant Physiology 137, 70–82 (2005).

Roessner-Tunali, U., Liu, J. L., Leisse, A., Balbo, I., Perez-Melis, A., Willmitzer, L. & Fernie, A. R. Kinetics of labelling of organic and amino acids in potato tubers by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry following incubation in C-13 labelled isotopes. Plant Journal 39, 668–679 (2004).

Bohmert, K., Balbo, I., Steinbuchel, A., Tischendorf, G. & Willmitzer, L. Constitutive expression of the beta-ketothiolase gene in transgenic plants. A major obstacle for obtaining polyhydroxybutyrate-producing plants. Plant Physiology 128, 1282–1290 (2002).

Bohmert, K., Balbo, I., Kopka, J., Mittendorf, V., Nawrath, C., Poirier, Y., Tischendorf, G., Trethewey, R. N. & Willmitzer, L. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants can accumulate polyhydroxybutyrate to up to 4% of their fresh weight. Planta 211, 841–845 (2000).

Dormann, P., Balbo, I. & Benning, C. Arabidopsis galactolipid biosynthesis and lipid trafficking mediated by DGD1. Science 284, 2181–2184 (1999).

Batushansky, A., Kirma, M., Grillich, N., Toubiana, D., Pham, P. A., Balbo, I., Fromm, H., Galili, G., Fernie, A. R. & Fait, A. Combined Transcriptomics and Metabolomics of Arabidopsis thaliana Seedlings Exposed to Exogenous GABA Suggest Its Role in Plants Is Predominantly Metabolic. Molecular Plant 7, 1065–1068 (2014).