Genética molecular y genómica bacteriana.
Genómica funcional y regulación transcripcional de bacterias. Respuesta a diferentes condiciones ambientales (baja concentración de oxígeno y estrés abiótico). Análisis de expresión global de la simbiosis Rhizobium-Phaseolus vulgaris en condiciones de control y estrés.

Publicaciones

47. Alba Hidalgo-García, María J. Torres, Ana Salas, Eulogio J. Bedmar, Lourdes Girard and Maria J. Delgado (2019). Rhizobium etli produces nitrous oxide by coupling the assimilatory and denitrification pathways. Frontiers in Microbiology 10, art.980. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00980. ISSN (eISSN):1664-302X
48. Luis Alfredo Bañuelos-Vazquez, Gonzalo Torres Tejerizo, Laura Cervantes-De la Luz, Lourdes Girard, David Romero and Susana Brom. (2019). Conjugative transfer between Rhizobium etli endosymbionts inside the root nodule. Environmental Microbiology 21 (9), 3430-3441. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14645. ISSN: 1462-2912 (eISSN: 1462-2920).
49. Alejandra Arteaga Ide, Victor M. Hernández, Liliana Medina-Aparicio, Edson Carcamo-Noriega, Lourdes Girard, Ismael Hernández-Lucas and Michael F. Dunn. (2020). Genetic regulation, biochemical properties and physiological importance of arginase from Sinorhizobium meliloti. Microbiology 166: 484-497. ISSN: 1350-0872. doi:10.1099/mic.0.000909
50. Juan Sanjuan, María J. Delgado and Lourdes Girard. (2020). Editorial: Microbial Control of the Nitrogen Cycle. Frontiers in Microbiology 11:950. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.00950. ISSN (eISSN):1664-302X
51. Rodríguez, S., Correa-Galeote, D., Sánchez-Pérez, M., Ramírez, M., Isidra-Arellano, M.C., Reyero-Saavedra, M.D.R., Zamorano-Sánchez, D., Hernández, G., Valdés-López, O., Girard, L. (2020) A Novel OmpR-Type Response Regulator Controls Multiple Stages of the Rhizobium etli – Phaseolus vulgaris N2-Fixing Symbiosis. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, art. no. 615775. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.615775. ISSN (eISSN):1664-302X
52. Litzy Ayra, Maria Del Rocio Reyero-Saavedra, Mariel Arellano, Luis F. Lozano, Mario
Ramirez, Alfonso Leija, Sara I. Fuentes, Lourdes Girard, Oswaldo Valdes-Lopez, Georgina
Hernandez. (2021). Control of the Rhizobia Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiosis by Common Bean
MADS-domain /AGL Transcription Factors. Front. Plant Sci. 12:679463.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.679463
53. Carmen Vargas-Lagunas, Yolanda Mora, Alejandro Aguilar, Alma Ruth Reyes-González, Alejandra Arteaga-Ide, Michael F. Dunn, Sergio Encarnación, Lourdes Girard, Humberto Peralta and Jaime Mora. (2022). A Tar aspartate receptor and Rubisco-like proteins substitute biotin in the growth of rhizobial strains. Microbiology, 168: 001130. Doi: 10.1099/mic.0.001130. ISSN IMPRESO; 1350-0872, ISSN e: 1465-2080
54. María J. Lorite, Ariana Casas-Román, Lourdes Girard, Sergio Encarnación, Natalia Díaz-Garrido, Josefa Badía, Laura Baldomá, Daniel Pérez-Mendoza and Juan Sanjuán. (2023). Impact of c-di-GMP on the Extracellular Proteome of Rhizobium etli. Biology 2023, 12, 44. https://10.3390/biology12010044.
55. Rocío Reyero-Saavedra, Sara Isabel Fuentes, Alfonso Leija, Gladys Jiménez-Nopala, Pablo Peláez, Mario Ramírez, Lourdes Girard, Timothy G. Porch and Georgina Hernández. (2023). Identification and Characterization of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) Non-Nodulating Mutants Altered in Rhizobial Infection. Plants, 12, 1310. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12061310
56. Alba Hidalgo-García, Germán Tortosa, Pedro J. Pacheco, Andrew J. Gates, David J. Richardson, Eulogio J. Bedmar, Lourdes Girard, María J. Torres & María J.Delgado (2023). Rhizobium etli is able to emit nitrous oxide by connecting assimilatory nitrate reduction with nitrite respiration in the bacteroids of common bean nodules, Journal of Plant Interactions, 18:1, 2251511. https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2023.2251511

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