Borghi Lab
Publications
ORCID 0000-0003-1359-7611
Pérez-Alfocea F, Borghi M, Guerrero JJ, Jiménez AR, Jiménez-Gómez JM, Fernie AR, Bartomeus I (2024). Pollinator-assisted plant phenotyping, selection, and breeding for crop resilience to abiotic stresses. The Plant Journal, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.16748
Borghi M, Pacifico D, Crucitti D, Squartini A, Berger MMJ, Gamboni M, Carimi F, Lehad A, Costa A, Gallusci P, Fernie AR, Zottini M (2024). Smart selection of soil microbes for resilient and sustainable viticulture. The Plant Journal, https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16674
Boutoub O, Jadhav S, Zheng X, El Ghadraoui L, Al Babili S, Fernie AR, Figueiredo AC, Miguel MG, Borghi M (2024). Biochemical characterization of Euphorbia resinifera floral cyathia. Journal of Plant Physiology, 293: 154184, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2024.154184
Naake T, Zhu F, Alseekh S, Scossa F, de Souza L, Borghi M, Brotman Y, Mori T, Nakabayashi R, Tohge T, Fernie AR (2023). Genome-wide association studies identify loci controlling specialized seed metabolites in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad511
Jing Y, Watanabe M, Aarabi F, Fernie AR, Borghi M, Tohge T. (2023). Cross-Species Metabolomic Analyses In The Brassicaceae Reveals Common Responses To Ultraviolet-B Exposure. Plant and Cell Physiology, 64: 1523-1533 (doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcad085)
Chmielewski MW, Naya S, Borghi M, Cortese J, Fernie AR, Swartz MT, Zografou K, Sewall BJ, Spigler RB (2023). Phenology and foraging bias contribute to sex-specific foraging patterns in the rare declining butterfly Argynnis idalia idalia. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e10287 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10287
Naake T, Scossa F, de Souza L, Borghi M, Brotman Y, Nakabayashi R, Tohge T, Fernie AR. Genome-wide association studies of seed metabolites identify loci controlling specialized metabolites in Arabidopsis thaliana.
bioRxiv 2022.09.23.509130; https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.23.509130v1
Wiszniewski A, Uberegui E, Messer M, Sultanova G, Borghi M, Duarte GT, Vicente R, Sageman-Furnas K, Fernie AR, Nikoloski Z, Laitinen RAE (2022). Temperature-mediated flower size plasticity in Arabidopsis. iScience, 25: 105411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105411
Borghi M, Perez de Souza L, Tohge T, Mi J, Melandri G, Proost S, Martins M, Al Babili S, Bouwmeester HJ, Fernie AR (2022). High-energy-level metabolism and transport occur at the transition from closed to open flowers. Plant Physiology, 190: 319-339. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac253
Borghi M, Perez de Souza L, Fernie AR (2022). Measurement of flower metabolite concentrations using Gas-Chromatography Mass Spectrometry and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry. Plant Gametogenesis: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2253-7
Borghi M, Junker RR, Lucas-Barbosa D and Zych M (2021). Editorial: Flower Metabolism and Pollinators. Front. Plant Sci. 12:776978. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.776978. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.776978
Borghi M, Fernie AR (2021). From flowers to seeds: how the metabolism of flowers frames plant reproduction. The Biochemist: bio_2021_134. https://doi.org/10.1042/bio_2021_134
Perez de Souza L, Borghi M, Fernie AR (2020). Plant Single-Cell Metabolomics—Challenges and Perspectives. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2020, 21, 8987. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21238987
Borghi M, Fernie AR (2020). Outstanding questions in flower metabolism. The Plant Journal 103: 1275-1288. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14814
Borghi M, Perez de Souza L, Yoshida T, Fernie AR (2019). Flowers and climate change: a metabolic perspective. New Phytologist 224, 1425-1441. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16031
Tohge T, Borghi M, Fernie AR (2018). The natural variance of the Arabidopsis floral secondary metabolome Scientific Data, 5, 180051. https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201851
Borghi M, Xie D-Y (2018). Cloning and characterization of a monoterpene synthase gene from flowers of Camelina sativa. Planta 247 (2), 443-457. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-017-2801-x
Borghi M, Fernie AR (2017). Floral Metabolism of Sugars and Amino Acids: Implications for Pollinators’ Preferences and Seed and Fruit Set. Plant Physiology 175 (4), 1510-1524. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.01164
Borghi M, Fernie AR, Schiestl FP, Bouwmeester HJ (2017) The sexual advantage of looking, smelling and tasting good: the metabolic network that produces signals for pollinators. Trends in Plant Science 22(4): 338-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2016.12.009
Rossi L, Borghi M, Yang J, Xie D-Y (2017). Overexpression of Populus X canescens isoprene synthase gene in Camelina sativa leads to alterations in its growth and metabolism. Journal of Plant Physiology (215) 122-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2017.06.005
Borghi M, Xie D-Y (2016) Tissue-specific production of limonene in Camelina sativa with the Arabidopsis promoters of genes BANYULS and FRUITFULL. Planta 243(2): 549-561. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-015-2425-y
Rossi L*, Borghi M*, Francini A, Lin X, Xie DY, Sebastiani L (2016). Salt stress induces differential regulation of the phenylpropanoid pathway in Olea europaea cultivars Frantoio (salt-tolerant) and Leccino (salt-sensitive) Journal of Plant Physiology (204) 8-15. * Equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2016.07.014
Kamiya T, Borghi M, Wang P, Danku JMC, Kalmbach L, Hosmani PS, Naseer S, Fujiwara T, Geldner N, Salt DE (2015). The MYB36 transcription factor orchestrates Casparian strip formation. PNAS 112(33), 10533–10538. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.150769111
Howard BE, Hu Q, Babaoglu AC, Chandra M, Borghi M, Tan X, He L, Sederoff HW, Gassmann W, Veronese P, Heber S (2013). High-Throughput RNA Sequencing of Pseudomonas-Infected Arabidopsis Reveals Hidden Transcriptome Complexity and Novel Splice Variants. PLoS ONE 8 (10), e74183
Borghi M, Rus A, Salt DE (2011). Loss-of-function of Constitutive expresser of Pathogenesis Related gene 5 (CPR5) affects potassium homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS ONE 6(10), e26360
Sebastiani L, Bracci T, Di Baccio D, Borghi M, Martinelli F, Ghelardi C, Monteforti G, Minnocci A (2009). Micropropagation as a tool for biological research: the experience of the BioLabs laboratories. Italus Hortus 16 (2), 1-4
Baxter IR, Vitek O, Lahner B, Muthukumar B, Borghi M, Morrissey J, Guerinot ML, Salt DE (2008). The leaf ionome as a multivariable system to detect a plant’s physiological status. PNAS 105: 12081-12086. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.080417510
Borghi M, Tognetti R, Monteforti G, Sebastiani L (2008). Responses of two poplar species (Populus alba and Populus x canadensis) to high copper concentrations. Environmental and Experimental Botany 62: 290-299
Marchi S, Tognetti R, Minnocci A, Borghi M, Sebastiani L (2008). Variation in mesophyll anatomy and photosynthetic capacity during leaf development in a deciduous mesophyte fruit tree (Prunus persica) and an evergreen sclerophyllous Mediterranean shrub (Olea europaea). TREES 22(4): 559-571
Sebastiani L, Busconi M, Bracci T, Borghi M, Fogher C (2008). A molecular study to characterize cultivars of Olea europaea typical of the Liguria region. In Typical cultivars of olive from the Liguria region, pp. 113-121. ISBN 88-901664-1-x. Regione Liguria Eds.
Borghi M, Tognetti R, Monteforti G, Sebastiani L (2007). Responses of Populus × euramericana (P. deltoides × P. nigra) clone Adda to increasing copper concentrations. Environmental and Experimental Botany 61: 66-73