Peer-reviewed papers

Ferrari, S., Galletti, R., Vairo, D., Cervone, F., De Lorenzo, G. (2006). "Antisense expression of the Arabidopsis thaliana AtPGIP1 gene reduces polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein accumulation and enhances susceptibility to Botrytis cinerea". Mol Plant Microb Interact, 19:931-936.

Manfredini, C., Sicilia, F., Ferrari, S., Pontiggia, D., Salvi, G., Caprari, C., Lorito, M., and De Lorenzo, G. (2005). �Polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein 2 of Phaseolus vulgaris inhibits BcPG1, a polygalacturonase of Botrytis cinerea important for pathogenicity, and protects transgenic plants from infection.� Physiol Mol Plant Pathol, 67:108-115.

Mattei, B., Galletti, R., Manfredini, C., Pontiggia, D., Salvi, G., Spadoni, S., Caprai, C., Ferrari, S., Bellincampi, D., Cervone, F., De Lorenzo, G. (2005). �Recognition and signalling in the cell wall: The case of endopolygalacturonase, PGIP and oligogalacturonides�. Plant Biosystems, 139: 24-27.

Ferrari, S., Plotnikova, J. M., De Lorenzo, G., Ausubel, F. M. (2003). �Arabidopsis local resistance to Botrytis cinerea involves salicylic acid and camalexin and requires EDS4 and PAD2, but not SID2, EDS5 or PAD4�. The Plant Journal, 35: 193-205.

Alonso, J. M., Stepanova, A. N., Solano, R., Wisman, E., Ferrari, S., Ausubel, F. M., Ecker, J. R. (2003). �New components of the ethylene signaling pathway uncovered by a novel mutant screen�. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 100(5): 2992-2997.

Ferrari. S., Vairo, D., Cervone, F., Ausubel., F. M., De Lorenzo, G. (2003). �Tandemly duplicated Arabidopsis genes encoding Polygalacturonase-Inhibiting Proteins (PGIPs) are coordinately regulated by different signal transduction pathways in response to fungal infection.� The Plant Cell, 15(1): 93-106.

De Lorenzo, G., Ferrari, S. (2002). �Polygalacturonase-Inhibiting Proteins in defense against phytopathogenic fungi�. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 5(4): 295-299.

Ferrari, S., Piconese, S., Tronelli, G., Migliaccio, F. (2000). �A new Arabidopsis thaliana root gravitropism and chirality mutant�. Plant Science, 158: 77-85.

Migliaccio, F., Micciulla, F., Ferrari, S. (1998).  �Hook formation in sunflower seedlings is directed by both positive gravitropism and a form of circumnutation�. Plant Biosystems, 132: 11-16.

Book chapters

De Lorenzo, G., D'Ovidio, R., Ferrari, S., Raiola, A., Di Matteo, A., Mattei, B. (2004). �Insight into plant defense strategies by studying PGIPs, polygalacturonases and oligogalacturonides.� In Biology of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Vol. 4 (ed. Lugtenberg, B., Tikhonovich, I., Provorov, N.), International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbes, pagg. 233-236.

De Lorenzo, G., Capodicasa, C., Caprari, C., Federici, L., Ferrari, S., Mattei, B., Raiola, A., Sicilia, F., Vairo, D., Devoto, A., Cervone, F. (2002). �Structure-Function and Molecular Studies on Fungal Polygalacturonases and their Inhibitor PGIPs�. In Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions. Vol. 3 (ed. S.A. Leong, C. Allen e E.W. Triplett), Academic Publishers, pagg.46-51.

De Lorenzo, G., Cervone, F., Bellincampi, D., Capodicasa, C., Caprari, C., Federici, L., Ferrari, S., Giuli, P., Laurenzi, M., Mattei, B., Raiola, A., Salvi, G., Sicilia, F., Vairo, D., Zabotina, O. (2000). �Structure-Function Studies on the Leucine-Rich Repeat Polygalacturonase-Inhibiting Protein (PGIP)�. In Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions. Vol. 2 (ed. P.J.G.M. de Wit, T. Bisseling, e J. Stiekema), Academic Publishers, pagg.126-130.
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