Representative Publications
15. González Ortega-Villaizán A., King E., Patel M.K., Rodríguez-Dobreva E., González-Teuber M., Ramos P., Vicente-Carbajosa J., Benito B., Pollmann S. (2025) Identification of a drought stress response module in tomato plants commonly induced by fungal endophytes that confer increased drought tolerance. Plant Mol. Biol., 115: 7. .
14. Onejeme F.C., González Ortega-Villaizán A., Topel Prieto B., Patel M.K., Guendouzi S., Reddy P.Y.N., Lopez L.E., Estevez J.M., Nataraja K.N., Shaanker R.U., Benito B., Vicente-Carbajosa J., Oelmüller R., Pollmann S. (2024) Fusarium sp. strain K-23 alleviates salt stress in Arabidopsis thaliana through its root hair growth-promoting effect. J. Plant Growth Regul., doi: 10.1007/s00344-024-11518-1. .
13. Aguilella M., Garciadeblás B., Fernández Pacios L., Benito B. (2024) Phylogenetic and Structure-Function Analyses of ENA ATPases: A Case Study of the ENA1 Protein from the Fungus Neurospora crassa. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 25: 514.
12. Haro R., Lanza M., Aguilella M., Sanz-García E., Benito B. (2023) The transportome of the endophyte Serendipita indica in free life and symbiosis with Arabidopsis and its expression in moderate salinity. Front. Microbiol., 14: 1191255.
11. Conchillo L.B., Haro R., Benito B. (2021) K+ Nutrition Exchange in the Serendipita-Arabidopsis Symbiosis: Study of the Fungal K+ Transporters Involved. Front. Ecol. Evol., 9: 789371.
10. Lanza M., Haro R., Conchillo L.B., Benito B. (2019) The endophyte Serendipita indica reduces the sodium content of Arabidopsis plants exposed to salt stress: fungal ENA ATPases are expressed and regulated at high pH and during plant co-cultivation in salinity. Environ. Microbiol., 21: 3364-3378.
9. Haro R., Benito B. (2019) The Role of Soil Fungi in K+ Plant Nutrition. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 20: 3169.
8. Álvarez-Aragón R., Rodríguez-Navarro A. (2017) Nitrate-dependent shoot sodium accumulation and osmotic functions of sodium in Arabidopsis under saline conditions. Plant J., 91: 208-219.
7. Ruiz-Lau N., Sáez Á., Lanza M., Benito B. (2017) Genomic and transcriptomic compilation of chloroplast ionic transporters of Physcomitrella patens. Study of NHAD transporters in Na+ and K+ homeostasis. Plant & Cell Physiol., 58: 2166–2178.
6. Álvarez-Aragón R., Haro R., Benito B., Rodríguez-Navarro A. (2016) Salt intolerance in Arabidopsis: shoot and root sodium toxicity, and inhibition by sodium-plus-potassium overaccumulation. Planta, 243: 97-114.
5. Dominguez-Nuñez J.A., Benito B., Berrocal-Lobo M., Albanesi A. (2016) Mycorrhizal Fungi: Role in the Solubilization of Potassium, p. 77-98. In S. V. Meena, R. B. Maurya, P. J. Verma, and S. R. Meena (eds.), Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for Sustainable Agriculture. Springer India, New Delhi.
4. Ruiz-Lau N., Bojórquez-Quintal E., Benito B., Echevarría-Machado I., Sánchez-Cach L.A., Medina-Lara M.d.F., Martínez-Estévez M. (2016) Molecular cloning and functional analysis of a Na+-insensitive K+ transporter of Capsicum chinense Jacq”. Front. Plant Sci., 7: 1980.
3. Nieves-Cordones M., Martinez V., Benito B., Rubio F. (2016) Comparison between Arabidopsis and rice for main pathways of K+ and Na+ uptake by roots. Front. Plant Sci., 7: 992.
2. Benito B., González-Guerrero M. (2014) Unravelling potassium nutrition in ectomycorrhizal associations. New Phytol., 201: 707-709.
1. Benito B., Haro R., Amtmann A., Cuin T.A., Dreyer I. (2014) The twins K+ and Na+ in plants? J. Plant Physiol., 171: 723-731.
