Publications
Selected publications
2026
Mercadal, J.^, Tremblay, S., Kraska, L., Hutten, M. A., and Formosa-Jordan, P.^ (2026) Lateral inhibition governs ancestral cellular patterning in fossil and extant liverworts. Development, 153, dev205696. Link
Rodríguez-Maroto, G.*, Wang, K.*, Casanova-Ferrer, P., Cerise, M, Coupland, G.^, and Formosa-Jordan, P.^ (2025) Time-dependent bistability leads to critical slowing down during floral transition in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications 17, 8973. Link
Singh Yadav, A.^, Russell, N. J., Hernández, A. I., Petlewski, A. R., Johnson, A. R., Grinage, A. D., Banuna, B., Guan, C. J., Mahood, E.H., Younkin, G. C., Thomas, H.R., Phillips, H.R., Harline, K., Flasco, M., Miller, M. B., Scinto-Madonich, N. J., Szeluga, N. M., Mendoz, P. N., Formosa-Jordan, P., and Roeder, A. H. K.^ (2026) ) Modeling of gene regulatory networks: An annotated glossary. Trends in Plant Science, 31, 6. Link
Weissbart, G. and Formosa-Jordan, P. (2026) Quantifying cellular spatial organization to infer biological mechanisms. 〈hal-05602235〉 Link
Weissbart, G., Clark, F., Roeder, A.H.K., and Formosa-Jordan, P. (2026) Stomatal patterning is shaped by the interplay with giant cell patterning in Arabidopsis. bioRxiv. Link
2025
Kraska, L., Mercadal Melia, J., Nakano, R.T., Molina, D., Formosa-Jordan, P., Ragni, L. and Andersen, T. G. (2025) MYB68 regulates radial endodermal differentiation and suberin patterning. Cell Reports, 44, 115794. Link
Russell, N.J., Belato, P.B., Oliver, L.S., Chakraborty, Roeder, A. H.K., Fox, D.T., Formosa-Jordan, P. (2025) Spatial ploidy inference using quantitative imaging. Cell Reports Methods, 5, 101249. Link.
Clark, F. K.*, Weissbart, G.*, Wang, X.*, Harline, K., Li, C., Formosa-Jordan, P.^, and Roeder, A. H. K.^ (2025). A common pathway controls cell size in the sepal and leaf epidermis leading to a non-random pattern of giant cells. PLOS Biology, 23, e3003469. Link
Kadiyala, U., Sprinzak, D., Monk, N. A.M., Taylor, S. E., Verd, B., Sonnen, K. F., Moon, L., Roeder, A. H. K.^, Perez-Carrasco, R.^ and Formosa-Jordan, P.^ (2025) From genes to patterns: five key dynamical systems concepts to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms. Development, 152, dev204617. Link
Landrein, B.* Abley, K.*, Formosa-Jordan, P., Meyerowitz, E.M.^, Jönsson, H.^ and Locke, J. C.W.^ (2025) Plasticity and invariance of Arabidopsis inflorescence and floral shoot apical meristems in response to mineral nutrients. bioRxiv. Link
2024
Bertran Garcia de Olalla, E.*, Cerise, M.*, Rodríguez-Maroto, G., Casanova-Ferrer, P., Vayssières, A., Severing, E., López Sampere, Y., Wang, K., Schäfer, S., Formosa-Jordan, P. and Coupland, G. (2024). Coordination of shoot apical meristem shape and identity by APETALA2 during floral transition in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications, 15(1), 6930. Link
Lakshmi Vadde, B.V.*, Russell, N.J.*, Bagde, S.R., Saint-Antoine, M., Brownfield, B., Mughal, S., Apprill, L. E., Khosla, A., Clark, F. K., Schwarz, E. M., Alseekh, S., Fernie, A.R., Singh, A., Schrick, K., Fromme, J. C., Skirycz, A., Formosa-Jordan, P.^, Roeder, A. H.R.^ (2024) The transcription factor ATML1 maintains giant cell identity by inducing synthesis of its own long-chain fatty acid-containing ligands. bioRxiv Link
Lopes, F.L., Formosa-Jordan, P., Malivert, A., Margalha, L., Confraria, A., Feil, R., Lunn, J.E., Jönsson, H.^, Landrein, B.^, and Baena-González, E.^ (2024) Sugar signaling modulates SHOOT MERISTEMLESS expression and meristem function in Arabidopsis. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 121 (37), e2408699121. Link
2023
Cerise, M., Falavigna, V.S., Rodriguez-Maroto, G., Signol, A., Severing, E., Gao, H., van Driel, A., Vincent, C., Wilkens, S., Iacobini, F., Formosa-Jordan, P., Pajoro, A., and Coupland, G. (2023) Two modes of gene regulation by TFL1 mediate its dual function in flowering time and shoot determinacy of Arabidopsis. Development, 150, dev202089. Link
Formosa-Jordan, P. and Landrein, B. (2023) Quantifying gene expression domains in plant shoot apical meristems. In: Riechmann JL, Ferrandiz C (eds) Flower Development: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, Second Edi. Springer Link (or see Link to HAL preprint)
Formosa-Jordan, P.*, Holloway, D.M.* and Diambra, L.* (2023) Editorial: Pattern formation in Biology. Front. Phys. Sec. Biophysics. Link
2021
Abley, K.*, Formosa-Jordan, P.*, Tavares, H., Chan, E. Y. T., Afsharinafar, M., Leyser, O. and Locke, J. C.W. (2021) An ABA-GA bistable switch can account for natural variation in the variability of Arabidopsis seed germination time. eLife; 10:e59485. Link
2018
Landrein, B., Formosa-Jordan, P., Malivert, A., Schuster, C., Melnyk, C. W., Yang, W., Turnbull, C., Meyerowitz, E. M.^, Locke, J. C.W.^ and Jönsson, H.^ (2018) Nitrate modulates stem cell dynamics in Arabidopsis shoot meristems through cytokinins. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 115:1382-1387. Link
Formosa-Jordan, P.*, Teles, J.* and Jönsson, H. (2018) Single-cell approaches for understanding morphogenesis using Computational Morphodynamics. In: Morris R. (eds) Mathematical Modelling in Plant Biology. Springer, Cham Link
2017
Fàbregas, N.*, Formosa-Jordan, P.*, Ibañes, M. and Caño-Delgado, A. I. (2017) Experimental and Theoretical Methods to Approach the Study of Vascular Patterning in the Plant Shoot. In "Xylem - Methods and Protocols", Methods in Molecular Biology, ed. M. de Lucas and J. Peter Etchells. Springer Science+Business Media, New York. Link
Meyer, H. M.*, Teles, J.*, Formosa-Jordan, P.*, Refahi, Y., San-Bento, R., Ingram, G., Jönsson, H., Locke, J. C.W. and Roeder, A. H.K. (2017) Fluctuations of the transcription factor ATML1 generate the pattern of giant cells in the Arabidopsis sepal. eLife, 10.7554/eLife.19131. Link
2015
Fàbregas, N.*, Formosa-Jordan, P.*, Confraria, A.*, Siligato, R., Alonso, J. M., Swarup, R., Bennett, M. J., Pekka Mähönen, A., Caño-Delgado, A. I. and Ibañes, M. (2015) Influx carriers control vascular patterning and xylem differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genetics, 11(4): e1005183. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005183. Link
(*: equal contributors; ^: co-corresponding authors).
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