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ORELLANA LAB · RESEARCH OUTPUT

Selected Publications

Selected research contributions from the Orellana Lab.

2026

Compartmental control of UDP-Araf supply: Golgi lumen UDP-Arabinopyranose mutase depletes plant cell wall Araf linkages

Largo-Gosens A., Parra-Rojas J.P., Sanhueza D., Yusta R., Mertz R.A., et al.

The Plant Cell · 38(6), koag154 (2026)

Plant Cell Wall Biology DOI ↗

2025

Nucleotide sugar transporters: orchestrating luminal glycosylation in plants

Ebert B., Orellana A.

Annual Review of Plant Biology · 76, 53–83 (2025)

Plant Cell Wall Biology DOI ↗

Cistanthe longiscapa exhibits ecophysiological and molecular adaptations to the arid environments of the Atacama Desert

Ossa P., Moreno A.A., Orellana D., Toro M., Carrasco-Valenzuela T., Riveros A., Meneses C., Nilo-Poyanco R., Orellana A.

Plant Physiology · 197(4), kiaf068 (2025)

Plant Drought Adaptation DOI ↗

2023

GoSAMTs are required for pectin methyl-esterification and mucilage release in seed coat epidermal cells

Parra-Rojas J.P., Sepúlveda-Orellana P., Sanhueza D., Salinas-Grenet H., Temple H., Dupree P., Saez-Aguayo S., Orellana A.

Frontiers in Plant Science · 14, 1099573 (2023)

Plant Cell Wall Biology DOI ↗

2022

Golgi-localized putative S-adenosyl methionine transporters required for plant cell wall polysaccharide methylation

Temple H., Phyo P., Yang W., Lyczakowski J.J., Echevarría-Poza A., et al.

Nature Plants · 8, 656–669 (2022)

Plant Cell Wall Biology

2021

Transport of UDP-Rhamnose by URGT2, URGT4 and URGT6 modulates Rhamnogalacturonan-I length

Aguayo S.S., Parra-Rojas J.P., Sepúlveda-Orellana P., Celiz-Balboa J., et al.

Plant Physiology (2021)

Plant Cell Wall Biology

2020

Functional interchangeability of nucleotide sugar transporters URGT1 and URGT2 reveals that urgt1 and urgt2 cell wall chemotypes depend on their spatio-temporal expression

Celiz-Balboa J., Largo-Gosens A., Parra-Rojas J.P., Arenas-Morales V., et al.

Frontiers in Plant Science · 11, 594544 (2020)

Plant Cell Wall Biology

2019

New steps in mucilage biosynthesis revealed by analysis of the transcriptome of the UDP-rhamnose/UDP-galactose transporter 2 mutant

Parra-Rojas J.P., Largo-Gosens A., Carrasco T., Celiz-Balboa J., et al.

Journal of Experimental Botany · 70(19), 5071–5088 (2019)

Plant Cell Wall Biology