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Renwei Huang, Daofeng Liu, Gonzalo H. Villarino, Neil S. Mattson (2025). Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization of Trehalose-6-Phosphate Synthase/Phosphatases Gene Family in Petunia and Their Expression Profiling Under Abiotic Stresses . Horticulturae.

Renwei Huang, Daofeng Liu, Gonzalo H. Villarino, Neil S. Mattson (2025). Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization of Trehalose-6-Phosphate Synthase/Phosphatases Gene Family in Petunia and Their Expression Profiling Under Abiotic Stresses . Horticulturae.

Huang, R., Liu, D., Villarino, G.H., Mattson, N.S.(2025). Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization of Trehalose-6-Phosphate Synthase/Phosphatases Gene Family in Petunia and Their Expression Profiling Under Abiotic Stresses . Horticulturae. 11. (6).

Silvia Manrique, Alex Cavalleri, Andrea Guazzotti, Gonzalo H Villarino, Sara Simonini, Aureliano Bombarely, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Ueli Grossniklaus, Chiara Mizzotti, Ana Marta Pereira, et al. (2024). HISTONE DEACETYLASE19 Controls Ovule Number Determination and Transmitting Tract Differentiation . Plant Physiology.

Villarino, G., Dahlberg-Wright, S., Zhang, L., Schaedel, M., Wang, L., Miller, K., Bartlett, J., Vu, A.M.D., Busch, W.(2024). PAT (Periderm Assessment Toolkit): A Quantitative and Large-Scale Screening Method for Periderm Measurements . Plant Phenomics. 6.

Gonzalo Villarino, Signe Dahlberg-Wright, Ling Zhang, Marianne Schaedel, Lin Wang, Karyssa Miller, Jack Bartlett, Albert Martin Dang Vu, Wolfgang Busch (2024). PAT (Periderm Assessment Toolkit): A Quantitative and Large-Scale Screening Method for Periderm Measurements . Plant Phenomics.

Manrique, S., Cavalleri, A., Guazzotti, A., Villarino, G.H., Simonini, S., Bombarely, A., Higashiyama, T., Grossniklaus, U., Mizzotti, C., Pereira, A.M., et al.(2024). HISTONE DEACETYLASE19 Controls Ovule Number Determination and Transmitting Tract Differentiation . Plant Physiology. 194. (4). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 2117-2135.

Hossein Davarinejad and Yi-Chun Huang and Benoit Mermaz and Chantal LeBlanc and Axel Poulet and Geoffrey Thomson and Valentin Joly and Marcelo Mu{\~{n}}oz and Alexis Arvanitis-Vigneault and Devisree Valsakumar and Gonzalo Villarino and Alex Ross and Benjamin H. Rotstein and Emilio I. Alarcon and Joseph S. Brunzelle and Philipp Voigt and Jie Dong and Jean-Fran{\c{c}}ois Couture and Yannick Jacob(2022). The histone H3.1 variant regulates TONSOKU-mediated DNA repair during replication . Science. 375. (6586). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1281--1286. American Association for the Advancement of Science ({AAAS})

Davarinejad, H., Huang, Y.-C., Mermaz, B., LeBlanc, C., Poulet, A., Thomson, G., Joly, V., Muñoz, M., Arvanitis-Vigneault, A., Valsakumar, D., et al.(2022). The histone H3.1 variant regulates TONSOKU-mediated DNA repair during replication . Science. 375. (6586). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1281-1286.

Jie Dong, Chantal LeBlanc, Axel Poulet, Benoit Mermaz, Gonzalo Villarino, Kimberly M Webb, Valentin Joly, Josefina Mendez, Philipp Voigt, Yannick Jacob(2021). H3.1K27me1 maintains transcriptional silencing and genome stability by preventing GCN5-mediated histone acetylation . The Plant Cell. 33. (4). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 961--979. Oxford University Press ({OUP})

Dong, J., LeBlanc, C., Poulet, A., Mermaz, B., Villarino, G., Webb, K.M., Joly, V., Mendez, J., Voigt, P., Jacob, Y.(2021). H3.1K27me1 maintains transcriptional silencing and genome stability by preventing GCN5-mediated histone acetylation . Plant Cell. 33. (4). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 961-979.

Flores-Vergara, M.A., Oneal, E., Costa, M., Villarino, G., Roberts, C., De Luis Balaguer, M.A., Coimbra, S., Willis, J., Franks, R.G.(2020). Developmental Analysis of Mimulus Seed Transcriptomes Reveals Functional Gene Expression Clusters and Four Imprinted, Endosperm-Expressed Genes . Frontiers in Plant Science. 11.

Lanjie Zheng, Punita Nagpal, Gonzalo Villarino, Brendan Trinidad, Laurina Bird, Yubi Huang, Jason W. Reed (2019). miR167 limits anther growth to potentiate anther dehiscence . Development.

Zheng, L., Nagpal, P., Villarino, G., Trinidad, B., Bird, L., Huang, Y., Reed, J.W.(2019). MiR167 limits anther growth to potentiate anther dehiscence . Development Cambridge. 146. (14).

Gonzalo H. Villarino and Qiwen Hu and Michael J. Scanlon and Lukas Mueller and Aureliano Bombarely and Neil S. Mattson(2017). Dissecting Tissue-Specific Transcriptomic Responses from Leaf and Roots under Salt Stress in Petunia hybrida Mitchell . Genes. 8. (8). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 195. {MDPI} {AG}

Villarino, G.H., Hu, Q., Scanlon, M.J., Mueller, L., Bombarely, A., Mattson, N.S.(2017). Dissecting tissue-specific transcriptomic responses from leaf and roots under salt stress in Petunia hybrida mitchell . Genes. 8. (8).

Aureliano Bombarely and Michel Moser and Avichai Amrad and Manzhu Bao and Laure Bapaume and Cornelius S. Barry and Mattijs Bliek and Maaike R. Boersma and Lorenzo Borghi and R{\'{e}}my Bruggmann and Marcel Bucher and Nunzio D{\textquotesingle}Agostino and Kevin Davies and Uwe Druege and Natalia Dudareva and Marcos Egea-Cortines and Massimo Delledonne and Noe Fernandez-Pozo and Philipp Franken and Laurie Grandont and J. S. Heslop-Harrison and Jennifer Hintzsche and Mitrick Johns and Ronald Koes and Xiaodan Lv and Eric Lyons and Diwa Malla and Enrico Martinoia and Neil S. Mattson and Patrice Morel and Lukas A. Mueller and Joëlle Muhlemann and Eva Nouri and Valentina Passeri and Mario Pezzotti and Qinzhou Qi and Didier Reinhardt and Melanie Rich and Katja R. Richert-Pöggeler and Tim P. Robbins and Michael C. Schatz and M. Eric Schranz and Robert C. Schuurink and Trude Schwarzacher and Kees Spelt and Haibao Tang and Susan L. Urbanus and Michiel Vandenbussche and Kitty Vijverberg and Gonzalo H. Villarino and Ryan M. Warner and Julia Weiss and Zhen Yue and Jan Zethof and Francesca Quattrocchio and Thomas L. Sims and Cris Kuhlemeier(2016). Insight into the evolution of the Solanaceae from the parental genomes of Petunia hybrida . Nature Plants. 2. (6). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

(2016). Transcriptomic Signature of the SHATTERPROOF2 Expression Domain Reveals the Meristematic Nature of Arabidopsis Gynoecial Medial Domain . Plant physiology.

Villarino, G.H., Hu, Q., Manrique, S., Flores-Vergara, M., Sehra, B., Robles, L., Brumos, J., Stepanova, A.N., Colombo, L., Sundberg, E., et al.(2016). Transcriptomic signature of the SHATTERPROOF2 expression domain reveals the meristematic nature of Arabidopsis gynoecial medial domain . Plant Physiology. 171. (1). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 42-61.

Bombarely, A., Moser, M., Amrad, A., Bao, M., Bapaume, L., Barry, C.S., Bliek, M., Boersma, M.R., Borghi, L., Bruggmann, R., et al.(2016). Insight into the evolution of the Solanaceae from the parental genomes of Petunia hybrida . Nature Plants. 2.

Correction: Transcriptomic Analysis of Petunia hybrida in Response to Salt Stress Using High Throughput RNA Sequencing @article{2014, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0099146}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0099146}, year = 2014, month = {may}, publisher = {Public Library of Science ({PLoS})}, volume = {9}, number = {5}, pages = {e99146}, title = {Correction: Transcriptomic Analysis of Petunia hybrida in Response to Salt Stress Using High Throughput {RNA} Sequencing}, journal = {{PLoS} {ONE}}} . PLoS ONE.

Villarino, G.H., Bombarely, A., Giovannoni, J.J., Scanlon, M.J., Mattson, N.S.(2014). Transcriptomic analysis of Petunia hybrida in response to salt stress using high throughput RNA sequencing . Plos One. 9. (4).

Villarino, G.H., Mattson, N.S.(2011). Assessing tolerance to sodium chloride salinity in fourteen floriculture species . Horttechnology. 21. (5). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 539-545.

Gonzalo Villarino (2025). Protocol: RNeasy Plant Mini Kit for RNA Extraction v1 .

Gonzalo Villarino (2025). CTAB-Based RNA Extraction with Qiagen RNeasy Cleanup v1 .

Manrique, S., Cavalleri, A., Guazzotti, A., Villarino, G.H., Simonini, S., Bombarely, A., Higashiyama, T., Grossniklaus, U., Mizzotti, C., Pereira, A.M., et al.(2023). HISTONE DEACETYLASE 19 REGULATES SHOOT MERISTEMLESS EXPRESSION IN THE CARPEL MARGIN MERISTEM CONTRIBUTING TO OVULE NUMBER DETERMINATION AND TRANSMITTING TRACT DIFFERENTIATION . Biorxiv.

Dong, J., LeBlanc, C., Poulet, A., Mermaz, B., Villarino, G., Webb, K.M., Joly, V., Mendez, J., Voigt, P., Jacob, Y.(2020). H3.1K27me1 maintains transcriptional silencing and genome stability by preventing GCN5-mediated histone acetylation . Biorxiv.