Education

Ph. D. in Biological Sciences, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. 1993

Current position

Senior Researcher
Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics,
CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB
Barcelona, Spain

Publications

1. Marin-Gonzalez, E. and Suarez-Lopez, P. (2012). "And yet it moves": cell-to-cell and long-distance signaling by plant microRNAs. Plant Sci 196: 18-30.
   
2. Gonzalez-Schain, N. D., Diaz-Mendoza, M., Zurczak, M. and Suarez-Lopez, P. (2012). Potato CONSTANS is involved in photoperiodic tuberization in a graft-transmissible manner. Plant J 70(4): 678-690.
   
3. Dinant, S. and Suárez-López, P. (2012). Multitude of long-distance signal molecules acting via phloem. In Biocommunication of Plants (G. Witzany and F. Balu?ka, eds.), pp. 89-121. Springer, Heidelberg.
   
4. Martin, A., Adam, H., Diaz-Mendoza, M., Zurczak, M., Gonzalez-Schain, N. D. and Suarez-Lopez, P. (2009). Graft-transmissible induction of potato tuberization by the microRNA miR172. Development 136(17): 2873-2881.
   
5. González-Schain, N. and Suárez-López, P. (2008). CONSTANS delays flowering and affects tuber yield in potato. Biologia Plantarum 52(2): 251-258.
   
6. Suarez-Lopez, P. (2005). Long-range signalling in plant reproductive development. Int J Dev Biol 49(5-6): 761-771.
   
7. An, H., Roussot, C., Suarez-Lopez, P., Corbesier, L., Vincent, C., Pineiro, M., Hepworth, S., Mouradov, A., Justin, S., Turnbull, C. and Coupland, G. (2004). CONSTANS acts in the phloem to regulate a systemic signal that induces photoperiodic flowering of Arabidopsis. Development 131(15): 3615-3626.
   
8. Suarez-Lopez, P., Wheatley, K., Robson, F., Onouchi, H., Valverde, F. and Coupland, G. (2001). CONSTANS mediates between the circadian clock and the control of flowering in Arabidopsis. Nature 410(6832): 1116-1120.
   
9. Suarez-Lopez, P. and Coupland, G. (1998). Plants see the blue light. Science 279(5355): 1323-1324.
   
10. Suarez-Lopez, P. and Gutierrez, C. (1997). DNA replication of wheat dwarf geminivirus vectors: effects of origin structure and size. Virology 227(2): 389-399.
    
11. Gutiérrez, C., Suárez-López, P., Ramírez-Parra, E., Sanz-Burgos, A., Pönninger, J. and Xie, Q. (1995). DNA bending as a potential regulatory cis-acting element of the geminivirus intergenic region. Agronomie 15(7-8): 415-420.
    
12. Xie, Q., Suarez-Lopez, P. and Gutierrez, C. (1995). Identification and analysis of a retinoblastoma binding motif in the replication protein of a plant DNA virus: requirement for efficient viral DNA replication. EMBO J 14(16): 4073-4082.
    
13. Suarez-Lopez, P., Martinez-Salas, E., Hernandez, P. and Gutierrez, C. (1995). Bent DNA in the large intergenic region of wheat dwarf geminivirus. Virology 208(1): 303-311.
    
14. Suarez-Lopez, P. and Ortin, J. (1994). An estimation of the nucleotide substitution rate at defined positions in the influenza virus haemagglutinin gene. J Gen Virol 75 ( Pt 2): 389-393.
    
15. Nieto, A., de la Luna, S., Bárcena, J., Martín, J., Fortes, P., Sanz, J. J., Suárez, P., Portela, A. and Ortín, J. (1993). Studies on the transcription and replication of influenza virus RNA. In Options for the control of influenza II (C. Hannoun et al., eds.), pp. 275-279. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam.
    
16. Suarez, P., Valcarcel, J. and Ortin, J. (1992). Heterogeneity of the mutation rates of influenza A viruses: isolation of mutator mutants. J Virol 66(4): 2491-2494.