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Márcia Margis-Pinheiro is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work concentrates on several subfields, including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Environmental Chemistry, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to plant biology and molecular processes. The main topics they have covered are:

  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
  • Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental and Experimental Botany
  • Antioxidants

Recent published papers by Márcia Margis-Pinheiro demonstrate a range of focus areas and include the following:

  • Programmed cell death (PCD) control in plants: New insights from the Arabidopsis thaliana deathosome, 2020, Plant Science
  • Going Forward and Back: The Complex Evolutionary History of the GPx, 2021, Biology
  • Chromosomal introgressions from Oryza meridionalis into domesticated rice Oryza sativa result in iron tolerance, 2020, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Molecular evolution and diversification of the GRF transcription factor family, 2020, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Phosphate starvation responses in crop roots: from well-known players to novel candidates, 2020, Environmental and Experimental Botany

Collaboration is a recurrent feature in their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Paloma Koprovski Menguer
  • Thomaz Stumpf Trenz
  • Fernanda Lazzarotto
  • Felipe Klein Ricachenevsky
  • Yugo Lima-Melo

Best Publications

  • Plant responses to stresses: role of ascorbate peroxidase in the antioxidant protection

    Andréia Caverzan;Gisele Passaia;Silvia Barcellos Rosa;Carolina Werner Ribeiro

  • Glutathione peroxidase family - an evolutionary overview.

    Rogerio Margis;Christophe Dunand;Felipe K. Teixeira;Marcia Margis-Pinheiro

  • Interactions between plant hormones and heavy metals responses.

    Lauro Bücker-Neto;Ana Luiza Sobral Paiva;Ronei Dorneles Machado;Rafael Augusto Arenhart

  • Rice ascorbate peroxidase gene family encodes functionally diverse isoforms localized in different subcellular compartments

    Felipe Karam Teixeira;Larissa Menezes-Benavente;Larissa Menezes-Benavente;Vinícius Costa Galvão;Rogério Margis

  • PeroxiBase: the peroxidase database.

    Filippo Passardi;Grégory Theiler;Marcel Zamocky;Marcel Zamocky;Claudia Cosio

  • Evolutionary view of acyl-CoA diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT), a key enzyme in neutral lipid biosynthesis

    Andreia C Turchetto-Zolet;Felipe S Maraschin;Guilherme L de Morais;Alexandro Cagliari

  • Heavy metal-associated isoprenylated plant protein (HIPP): characterization of a family of proteins exclusive to plants.

    João Braga de Abreu-Neto;Andreia C. Turchetto-Zolet;Luiz Felipe Valter de Oliveira;Maria Helena Bodanese Zanettini

  • Analysis of the Molecular Evolutionary History of the Ascorbate Peroxidase Gene Family: Inferences from the Rice Genome

    Felipe Karam Teixeira;Larissa Menezes-Benavente;Rogério Margis;Márcia Margis-Pinheiro

  • Role of peroxidases in the compensation of cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase knockdown in rice plants under abiotic stress.

    Aurenivia Bonifacio;Marcio O. Martins;Carolina W. Ribeiro;Adilton V. Fontenele

  • Cytosolic APx knockdown indicates an ambiguous redox responses in rice.

    Sílvia B. Rosa;Andréia Caverzan;Felipe K. Teixeira;Fernanda Lazzarotto

  • New insights into aluminum tolerance in rice: the ASR5 protein binds the STAR1 promoter and other aluminum-responsive genes.

    Rafael Augusto Arenhart;Yang Bai;Yang Bai;Luiz Felipe Valter de Oliveira;Lauro Bucker Neto

  • Functional characterization of the rice kaurene synthase-like gene family.

    Meimei Xu;P. Ross Wilderman;Dana J Morrone;Jianjun Xu

  • Salt stress induces altered expression of genes encoding antioxidant enzymes in seedlings of a Brazilian indica rice (Oryza sativa L.)

    Larissa Menezes-Benavente;Felipe Karam Teixeira;Claire Lessa Alvim Kamei;Márcia Margis-Pinheiro

  • Bean cyclophilin gene expression during plant development and stress conditions

    Jocelyne Marivet;Marcia Margis-Pinheiro;Pierre Frendo;Gérard Burkard

  • Prokaryotic origins of the non-animal peroxidase superfamily and organelle-mediated transmission to eukaryotes

    Filippo Passardi;Nenad Bakalovic;Felipe Karam Teixeira;Marcia Margis-Pinheiro;Marcia Margis-Pinheiro

  • Succinate dehydrogenase (mitochondrial complex II) is a source of reactive oxygen species in plants and regulates development and stress responses.

    Douglas Jardim-Messeder;Andréia Caverzan;Rafael Rauber;Eduardo de Souza Ferreira

  • Small heat shock proteins genes are differentially expressed in distinct varieties of common bean

    Jean Luiz Simões-Araújo;Jean Luiz Simões-Araújo;Norma Gouvêa Rumjanek;Márcia Margis-Pinheiro

  • Biosynthesis of Triacylglycerols (TAGs) in plants and algae

    Alexandro Cagliari;Rogerio Margis;Felipe dos Santos Maraschin;Andreia Carina Turchetto-Zolet

  • The mitochondrial glutathione peroxidase GPX3 is essential for H2O2 homeostasis and root and shoot development in rice.

    Gisele Passaia;Leila Spagnolo Fonini;Andréia Caverzan;Douglas Jardim-Messeder

  • The effects of redox controls mediated by glutathione peroxidases on root architecture in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Gisele Passaia;Guillaume Queval;Juan Bai;Juan Bai;Marcia Margis-Pinheiro

Frequent Co-Authors

Rogério Margis
Rogério Margis Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Christophe Dunand
Christophe Dunand Paul Sabatier University
Michael Frei
Michael Frei University of Giessen
Claude Penel
Claude Penel University of Geneva
Zhi-Yong Wang
Zhi-Yong Wang Carnegie Institution for Science
Marcelo F. Simon
Marcelo F. Simon Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Stephen Cavers
Stephen Cavers Natural Environment Research Council
Joseph C. Polacco
Joseph C. Polacco University of Missouri
Nicolas Rouhier
Nicolas Rouhier University of Lorraine
Maria Fatima Grossi-de-Sa
Maria Fatima Grossi-de-Sa Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation

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