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Molecular Biology
Spain
2025

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Juan Antonio García is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research spans diverse aspects of plant virus biology, molecular plant pathology, and interactions between plants and pathogens.

The scientist's recent papers include the following:

  • Abscisic Acid Connects Phytohormone Signaling with RNA Metabolic Pathways and Promotes an Antiviral Response that Is Evaded by a Self-Controlled RNA Virus, 2020, Plant Communications
  • Potyviral coat protein and genomic RNA: A striking partnership leading virion assembly and more, 2020, Advances in virus research
  • P1 of Sweet Potato Feathery Mottle Virus Shows Strong Adaptation Capacity, Replacing P1-HCPro in a Chimeric Plum Pox Virus, 2021, Journal of Virology
  • Plant Virus Genome Is Shaped by Specific Dinucleotide Restrictions That Influence Viral Infection, 2020, mBio
  • Home-made enzymatic premix and Illumina sequencing allow for one-step Gibson assembly and verification of virus infectious clones, 2020, Phytopathology Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Juan Antonio García include:

  • Bernardo Rodamilans
  • Beatriz García
  • Adrián Vallí
  • Carmen Simón-Mateo
  • Sandra Martínez-Turiño

The scientist has contributed regularly to specific publication venues, including:

  • mBio
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Viruses
  • Molecular Plant Pathology
  • UNC Libraries

Juan Antonio García's main fields of study cover:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Their subfields of study reflect a focus on:

  • Plant Science
  • Endocrinology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology

The main research topics addressed include:

  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Transgenic Plants and Applications
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity

Best Publications

  • Target mimicry provides a new mechanism for regulation of microRNA activity

    José Manuel Franco-Zorrilla;Adrián Valli;Marco Todesco;Isabel Mateos

  • Highlights and prospects of potyvirus molecular biology

    José Luis Riechmann;Sonia Laín;Juan Antonio García

  • Molecular biology of potyviruses.

    Frédéric Revers;Frédéric Revers;Juan Antonio García

  • A destination-branding model: An empirical analysis based on stakeholders

    Juan A. García;Mar Gómez;Arturo Molina

  • How do plant viruses induce disease? Interactions and interference with host components

    Vicente Pallas;Juan Antonio García

  • GRAB proteins, novel members of the NAC domain family, isolated by their interaction with a geminivirus protein

    Qi Xie;Andrés P. Sanz-Burgos;Huishan Guo;Juan Antonio García

  • RNA helicase: a novel activity associated with a protein encoded by a positive strand RNA virus

    S. Lain;J. L. Riechmann;J. A. Garciá

  • Recombination and gene duplication in the evolutionary diversification of P1 proteins in the family Potyviridae.

    Adrian Valli;Juan José López-Moya;Juan Antonio García

  • Detection of plum pox potyvirus using monoclonal antibodies to structural and non-structural proteins

    M. Cambra;M. Asensio;M. T. Gorris;E. Pérez

  • Alteration in the chloroplastic metabolism leads to ROS accumulation in pea plants in response to plum pox virus

    Pedro Díaz-Vivancos;María José Clemente-Moreno;Manuel Rubio;Enrique Olmos

  • Plum pox virus and sharka: a model potyvirus and a major disease

    Juan Antonio García;Miroslav Glasa;Mariano Cambra;Thierry Candresse

  • RNA helicase activity of Semliki Forest virus replicase protein NSP2.

    Marta Gomez de Cedrón;Neda Ehsani;Marja L. Mikkola;Juan Antonio Garcı́a

  • Organic matter processing by microbial communities throughout the Atlantic water column as revealed by metaproteomics

    Kristin Bergauer;Antonio Fernandez-Guerra;Juan A L Garcia;Richard R Sprenger

  • The complete nucleotide sequence of plum pox potyvirus RNA

    Sonia Laín;JoséL. Riechmann;Juan A. García

  • MicroRNA-Guided Processing Impairs Plum Pox Virus Replication, but the Virus Readily Evolves To Escape This Silencing Mechanism

    Carmen Simón-Mateo;Juan Antonio García

  • The HCPro from the Potyviridae family: an enviable multitasking Helper Component that every virus would like to have.

    Adrián A. Valli;Araiz Gallo;Bernardo Rodamilans;Juan José López-Moya

  • Salicylic acid‐mediated and RNA‐silencing defense mechanisms cooperate in the restriction of systemic spread of plum pox virus in tobacco

    Josefa M. Alamillo;Pilar Saénz;Juan Antonio García

  • Cloning, sequencing, and expression of a cDNA encoding rat LIMP II, a novel 74-kDa lysosomal membrane protein related to the surface adhesion protein CD36.

    M A Vega;B Seguí-Real;J A García;C Calés

  • Physiological and genomic characterization of two novel marine thaumarchaeal strains indicates niche differentiation.

    Barbara Bayer;Jana Vojvoda;Pierre Offre;Ricardo J. E. Alves

  • RNA polymerase slippage as a mechanism for the production of frameshift gene products in plant viruses of the potyviridae family.

    Bernardo Rodamilans;Adrian Valli;Ares Mingot;David San León

  • 3'-terminal sequence of the plum pox virus PS and ŏ6 isolates: evidence for RNA recombination within the potyvirus group.

    María Teresa Cervera;José Luis Riechmann;María Teresa Martín;Juan Antonio García

  • Protection of rabbits against rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus by immunization with the VP60 protein expressed in plants with a potyvirus-based vector.

    María Rosario Fernández-Fernández;Mercedes Mouriño;José Rivera;Francisco Rodríguez

Frequent Co-Authors

Margarita Salas
Margarita Salas Spanish National Research Council
José Luis Riechmann
José Luis Riechmann Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Thierry Candresse
Thierry Candresse University of Bordeaux
Rob Goldbach
Rob Goldbach Wageningen University & Research
José M. Sogo
José M. Sogo ETH Zurich
Luis Blanco
Luis Blanco Spanish National Research Council
Miguel A. Peñalva
Miguel A. Peñalva Spanish National Research Council
Neil E. Olszewski
Neil E. Olszewski University of Minnesota
Vicente Pallás
Vicente Pallás Universitat Politècnica de València
David C. Baulcombe
David C. Baulcombe University of Cambridge

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