Publications of D.D. Figueiredo

Pankaj, R., Lima, R. B. & Figueiredo, D. D. Hormonal regulation and crosstalk during early endosperm and seed coat development. Plant Reproduction 38, (2025).

Pankaj, R., Shoejaeyfar, S. & Figueiredo, D. D. An epiQTL underlying asexual seed formation in Arabidopsis. Plant Reproduction 37, 463–468 (2024).

Lima, R. B., Pankaj, R., Ehlert, S. T., Finger, P., Fröhlich, A., Bayle, V., Landrein, B., Sampathkumar, A. & Figueiredo, D. D. Seed coat-derived brassinosteroid signaling regulates endosperm development. Nature Communications 15, (2024).

Florez-Rueda, A. M., Miguel, C. M. & Figueiredo, D. D. Comparative transcriptomics of seed nourishing tissues: uncovering conserved and divergent pathways in seed plants. The Plant Journal 119, 1134–1157 (2024).

Chen, B., Maas, L., Figueiredo, D. D., Zhong, Y., Reis, R., Li, M., Horstman, A., Riksen, T., Weemen, M., Liu, H., Siemons, C., Chen, S., Angenent, G. C. & Boutilier, K. BABY BOOM regulates early embryo and endosperm development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119, (2022).

Batista, R. A., Figueiredo, D. D., Santos-Gonzalez, J. & Köhler, C. Auxin regulates endosperm cellularization in Arabidopsis. Genes and Development 33, 466–476 (2019).

Batista, R. A., Moreno-Romero, J., Qiu, Y., van Boven, J., Santos-Gonzalez, J., Figueiredo, D. D. & Köhler, C. The MADS-box transcription factor PHERES1 controls imprinting in the endosperm by binding to domesticated transposons. eLife 8, (2019).

Chander, S., Almeida, D. M., Serra, T. S., Jardim-Messeder, D., Barros, P. M., Lourenço, T. F., Figueiredo, D. D., Margis-Pinheiro, M., Costa, J. M., Oliveira, M. M. & Saibo, N. J. M. OsICE1 transcription factor improves photosynthetic performance and reduces grain losses in rice plants subjected to drought. Environmental and Experimental Botany 150, 88–98 (2018).

Cordeiro, A. M., Figueiredo, D. D., Tepperman, J., Borba, A. R., Lourenço, T., Abreu, I. A., Ouwerkerk, P. B. F., Quail, P. H., Margarida Oliveira, M. & Saibo, N. J. M. Rice phytochrome-interacting factor protein OsPIF14 represses OsDREB1B gene expression through an extended N-box and interacts preferentially with the active form of phytochrome B. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: BBA 1859, 393–404 (2016).

Derkacheva, M., Liu, S., Figueiredo, D. D., Gentry, M., Mozgova, I., Nanni, P., Tang, M., Mannervik, M., Köhler, C. & Hennig, L. H2A deubiquitinases UBP12/13 are part of the Arabidopsis polycomb group protein system. Nature Plants 2, (2016).

Figueiredo, D. D., Batista, R. A., Roszakt, P. J., Hennig, L. & Köhler, C. Auxin production in the endosperm drives seed coat development in Arabidopsis. eLife 5, (2016).

Mahrez, W., Shin, J., Munoz-Viana, R., Figueiredo, D. D., Trejo-Arellano, M. S., Exner, V., Siretskiy, A., Gruissem, W., Köhler, C. & Hennig, L. BRR2a Affects Flowering Time via FLC Splicing. PLoS Genetics 12, (2016).

Figueiredo, D. D., Batista, R. A., Roszak, P. J. & Köhler, C. Auxin production couples endosperm development to fertilization. Nature Plants 1, (2015).

Lourenço, T., Sapeta, H., Figueiredo, D. D., Rodrigues, M., Cordeiro, A., Abreu, I. A., Saibo, N. J. M. & Oliveira, M. M. Isolation and characterization of rice (Oryza sativa L.) E3-ubiquitin ligase OsHOS1 gene in the modulation of cold stress response. Plant Molecular Biology 83, 351–363 (2013).

Serra, T. S., Figueiredo, D. D., Cordeiro, A. M., Almeida, D. M., Lourenço, T., Abreu, I. A., Sebastián, A., Fernandes, L., Contreras-Moreira, B., Oliveira, M. M. & Saibo, N. J. M. OsRMC, a negative regulator of salt stress response in rice, is regulated by two AP2/ERF transcription factors. Plant Molecular Biology 82, 439–455 (2013).

Figueiredo, D. D., Barros, P. M., Cordeiro, A. M., Serra, T. S., Lourenço, T., Chander, S., Oliveira, M. M. & Saibo, N. J. M. Seven zinc-finger transcription factors are novel regulators of the stress responsive gene OsDREB1B. Journal of Experimental Botany 63, 3643–3656 (2012).

Brownfield, L. R., Figueiredo, D. D., Borg, M. & Schmidt, A. Plant Development and Reproduction at Single Cell and Cell Typespecific Resolution. Frontiers in Plant Science 14, (2023).

Lima, R. B. & Figueiredo, D. D. Sex on steroids: how brassinosteroids shape reproductive development in plants. Plant and Cell Physiology 65, 1581–1600 (2024).

Figueiredo, D. D. & Köhler, C. Auxin: a molecular trigger of seed development. Genes and Development 32, 479–490 (2018).

Figueiredo, D. D. & Köhler, C. Bridging the generation gap: communication between maternal sporophyte, female gametophyte and fertilization products. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 29, 16–20 (2016).