Jorge José Casal

casal@ifeva.edu.ar

Formación

  • Ingeniero Agronomo, Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1978.
  • Magister Scientiae, Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1982.
  • PhD, Universidad de Leicester, Inglaterra, 1989.

Cargos

  • Profesor Asociado, Investigador Principal (CONICET).

Áreas de interés en investigación

  • Bases genéticas y moleculares de la fotomorfogénesis en plantas.
  • Señales fotomorfogénicas en cultivos agrícolas y pasturas, implicancias productivas.
  • Genómica funcional.

Cursos dictados en la EPG

Formación de recursos humanos

  • Tesis de pos-grado finalizadas: Marcelo J. Yanovsky, Maria Agustina Mazzella, Hernan Boccalandro, Karina Oliverio.
  • Tesis de post-grado en marcha: Laura Luccioni, Julieta Mateos, Santiago Trupkin, Sabrina Buchovski, Romina Sellaro, Constanza Rossi.

Publicaciones (últimos 5 años)

  • Mazzella, M.A., Arana, M.V., Staneloni, R.J., Perelman, S., Rodriguez Batiller, M.J., Muschietti, J., Cerdán, P., Chen, K., Sánchez, R.A., Zhu, T., Chory, J., Casal, J.J. 2005. Phytochrome control of the Arabidopsis transcriptome anticipates seedling exposure to light. Plant Cell 17: 2507-2516.
  • Casal, J.J., Yanovsky, M.J. 2005. Regulation of gene expression by light. International Journal of Developmental Biology. 49: 501-511.
  • Alconada-Magliano, T., Botto, J.F., Godoy, V, Symonds, V.V., Lloyd, A.M., Casal, J.J. 2005. New Arabidopsis recombinant inbred lines (Ler/No-0) reveal natural variation in phytochrome-mediated responses. Plant Physiology 138: 1126-1135.
  • Symonds, V. Vaughan, A. Veronica Godoy, Teresa Alconada, Javier F. Botto, Thomas E. Juenger, Jorge J. Casal and Alan M. Lloyd. 2005. Mapping quantitative trait loci in multiple populations of Arabidopsis thaliana identifies natural allelic variation for trichome density. Genetics 169: 1649-1658.
  • Boccalandro, H.E., Rossi, M.C., Saijo, Y., Deng, X-W., Casal, J.J. 2004. Promotion of photomorphogenesis by COP1. Plant Molecular Biology 56, 905-915.
  • Casal, J.J., Fankhauser, C., Coupland, G., Blázquez, M. A. 2004. Signalling for developmental plasticity. Trends in Plant Science 9, 309-314.
  • Alconada Magliano, T., Casal, J.J. 2004.Pre-germination seed-phytochrome signals control stem extension in dark-grown Arabidopsis seedlings. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 3, 612 – 616.
  • Fankhauser, C., Casal, J.J. 2004. Phenotypic characterisation of a photomorphogenic mutant. Plant Journal 39, 747-760.
  • Lariguet, P., Boccalandro, H.E., Alonso, J. M., Ecker, J. R., Chory, J., Casal, J.J., Fankhauser, C. 2003. A Growth Regulatory loop that provides homeostasis to phytochrome A signaling. Plant Cell 15: 2966-2978.
  • Boccalandro, H.E., Ploschuk, E., Yanovsky, M.J., Sánchez, R.A., Gatz, C., Casal, J.J. 2003.Increased phytochrome B levels alleviate density effects on tuber yield per plant in field potato crops. Plant Physiology 133: 1539-1546.
  • Botto, J. F., Alonso Blanco, C., Garzarón, I., Sánchez, R. A., Casal, J.J. 2003. The Cvi allele of cryptochrome 2 enhances cotyledon unfolding in the absence of blue light in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 133: 1547-1556.
  • Perelman, S., Mazzella, M.A., Muschietti, J., Zhu, T., Casal, J.J. 2003. Finding unexpected patterns from microarray data. Plant Physiology 133: 1717-1725.
  • Casal, J.J. , Luccioni, L.G., Oliverio, K.A., Boccalandro, H.E. 2003. Light, phytochrome signalling and photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 2: 625 – 636.
  • Maddonni, G.A., Otegui, M.E., Andrieu, B., Chelle, M., Casal, J.J. 2002. Maize leaves turn away from neighbors. Plant Physiology 130: 1181-1189.
  • Baumgardt, R.-L., Oliverio, K.A., Casal, J.J., Hoecker, U. 2002. SPA1, a component of phytochrome A signal transduction, regulates the light signaling current. Planta 215: 745-753.
  • Quinn, M.H. Oliverio, K., Yanovsky, M.J., Casal, J.J. 2002. CP3 is involved in negative regulation of phytochrome A signalling in Arabidopsis. Planta 215: 557-564.
  • Casal, J.J., Davis, S.J., Kirchenbauer, D.J., Viczian, A., Yanovsky, M.J., Clough, R.C., Kircher, S., Jordan-Beebe, E.T., Schäfer, E., Nagy, F., Vierstra, R.D. 2002. The serine-rich N-terminal domain of oat phytochrome A helps regulate light responses and subnuclear localization of the photoreceptor. Plant Physiology 129: 1127-1137.
  • Libenson, S., Rodriguez, V., Sánchez, R.A., Casal, J.J. 2002. Low Red to Far-red Ratios Reaching the Stem Reduce Grain Yield in Sunflower. Crop Science. Crop Science 42:1180-1185.
  • Yanovsky, M.J., Luppi, J.P., Kirchbauer, D., Ogorodnikova, O.B., Sineshchekov, V.A., Adam E., Kircher, S., Staneloni R.J., Schäfer E., Nagy, F., Casal, J.J. 2002. Missense mutation in the PAS2 domain of phytochrome A impairs subnuclear localization and a subset of responses. Plant Cell 14: 1591-1603.
  • Casal, J.J. 2002. Environmental cues affecting development. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 5, 37-42.
  • Luccioni, L.G., Oliverio, K.A., Yanovsky, M.J., Boccalandro, H., Casal, J.J. 2002. Brassinosteroid mutants uncover fine tunning of phytochrome signaling. Plant Physiology 178, 173-181.
  • Yanovsky, M.J., Mazzella, M.A., Whitelam, G.C., Casal, J.J. 2001. Re-setting the circadian clock by phytochromes and cryptochromes in Arabidopsis. Journal of Biological Rhythms 16, 523-530.
  • Mazzella, M.A., Cerdán, P.D., Staneloni, R.J., Casal, J.J. 2001. Hierarchical coupling of phytochromes and cryptochromes reconciles stability and light modulation of Arabidopsis development. Development 128, 2291-2299.
  • Boccalandro, H.E., Mazze, C.A., Mazzella, M.A., Casal, J.J., Ballaré, C.L. 2001. UV-B enhances phytochrome B mediated cotyledon opening in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 126, 780-788.
  • Mazzella, M.A., Casal, J.J. 2001. Interactive signalling by phytochromes and cryptochromes generates de-etiolation homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant, Cell and Environment 24, 155-162.

Capítulos de libros

  • Casal, J.J. The photoreceptor interaction network. En: Photomorphogenesis in Plants and Bacteria: Function and Signal Transduction Mechanisms. Editado por E. Schafer y F. Nagy. Kluwer Academic Publishers (en prensa).
  • Casal, J.J. 2005. Convergence of phytochrome and cryptochrome signaling. En: Light Sensing in Plants. M.Wada, K.Shimazaki y M.Iino. Springer Verlag, Tokyo, Japan.
Este artículo fue actualizado el: 21-Oct-2008