• Decoding peanut smut: A bibliometric analysis of two decades of research progress 

      Cazon, Luis Ignacio; Paredes, Juan Andrés; Miretti, Esteban; Gonzalez, Noelia; Suarez, Lautaro; Conforto, Erica Cinthia; Rago, Alejandro Mario (Springer, 2024-01-22)
      Since its first detection in commercial peanut fields in 1995, both the prevalence and impact on yield of peanut smut disease, caused by the fungus Thecaphora frezzii, have increased significantly. Concurrently, diverse ...
    • Early detection of Ascochyta blight (Ascochyta rabiei) of chickpea by traditional PCR 

      Valetti, Lucio; Cazon, Luis Ignacio; Crociara, Clara Sonia; Pastor, Silvina Estela (Elsevier, 2020-11-16)
      Ascochyta blight is the major disease affecting chickpea (Cicer arietinum) around the world. Since the first report of Ascochyta rabiei's isolation in Argentina in 2012, the pathogen has caused severe economic losses in ...
    • Efecto de nuevos fungicidas en el control de viruela del maní y el rendimiento del cultivo 

      Oddino, Claudio; Giordano, Francisco; Paredes, Juan Andrés; Cazon, Luis Ignacio; Giuggia, Jorge; Rago, Alejandro Mario (Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, 2018-07)
      Las enfermedades son el principal problema sanitario del maní (Arachis hypogaea L.), siendo viruela (Cercospora arachidicola Hori y Cercosporidium personatum (Berck. & Curt Deighton)) la más importante del mundo, y la que ...
    • Efficacy of fungicides against peanut smut in Argentina 

      Paredes, Juan Andrés; Cazon, Luis Ignacio; Oddino, Claudio; Monguillot, Joaquin Humberto; Rago, Alejandro Mario; Edwards Molina, Juan Pablo (Elsevier, 2020-09-28)
      Peanut smut, caused by Thecaphora frezii, increased its incidence and prevalence in the main growing region of Argentina in the last decade becoming the main peanut disease. Despite this fact, growers continue producing ...
    • Mitogenome and Nuclear-encoded Fungicide-target Genes of Thecaphora frezii - Causal Agent of Peanut Smut 

      Arias, Renee S.; Cazon, Luis Ignacio; Massa, Alicia N.; Scheffler, Brian E.; Sobolev, Victor S.; Lamb, Marshall C.; Duke, Mary V.; Simpson, Sheron A.; Conforto, Erica Cinthia; Paredes, Juan Andrés; Soave, Juan H.; Buteler, Mario I.; Rago, Alejandro Mario (Longdom Publishing, 2019-08-28)
      Background: Thecaphora frezii Carranza and Lindquist causes smut disease in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) resulting in up to 35% yield losses. Fungicides have shown ineffective in controlling the disease; whereas research ...
    • Molecular detection of Thecaphora frezzi in peanut (Arachis Hypogaea L.) seeds 

      Cazon, Luis Ignacio; Conforto, Erica Cinthia; Fernandez, Franco Daniel; Paredes, Juan Andrés; Rago, Alejandro Mario (2016)
      Thecaphora frezii is the causal agent of peanut smut, important disease in the Argentine production area. The pathogen can be dispersed by kernels, through surface contamination or small lesions. The aim of this work was ...
    • Molecular sequence data of Thecaphora frezii affecting peanut crops in Argentina 

      Conforto, Erica Cinthia; Cazon, Luis Ignacio; Fernandez, Franco Daniel; Marinelli, Adriana; Oddino, Claudio; Rago, Alejandro Mario (Springer, 2013-12)
      In Argentina, Thecaphora frezii is the causal agent of peanut smut, causing severe yield losses in peanut growing areas. In this work sequence data of the large ribosomal subunit (28S rDNA) of four T. frezii specimens from ...
    • Mycoparasitic Trichoderma isolates as a biocontrol agent against Valsa ceratosperma, the causal agent of apple valsa canker 

      Valetti, Lucio; Bernanrdi Lima, Nelson; Cazon, Luis Ignacio; Crociara, Clara Sonia; Ortega, Leandro Ismael; Pastor, Silvina Estela (Springer, 2022-05-27)
      Apple valsa canker, caused by the fungus Valsa ceratosperma, is one of the most destructive diseases of this crop. Conventional fungicide treatments are not effective enough; therefore, it is necessary to develop alternatives ...
    • Peanut Smut : from an emerging disease to an actual threat to Argentine Peanut production 

      Rago, Alejandro Mario; Cazon, Luis Ignacio; Paredes, Juan Andrés; Edwards Molina, Juan Pablo; Conforto, Erica Cinthia; Bisonard, Eduardo Matias; Oddino, Claudio (2017-03)
      The center of origin of peanut is located in South America, specifically in southeastern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina, where its parental species are found in wild habits. Even though Argentina is only the seventh ...
    • Relationship between incidence and severity of peanut smut and its regional distribution in the main growing region of Argentina 

      Paredes, Juan Andrés; Edwards Molina, Juan Pablo; Cazon, Luis Ignacio; Asinari, Florencia; Monguillot, Joaquín Humberto; Morichetti, Sergio A.; Rago, Alejandro Mario; Torres, Adriana M. (Springer, 2021-10-20)
      Peanut smut, caused by the soil-borne pathogen Thecaphora frezii, has increased in incidence in the main Argentinian peanut-growing regions. Smut-affected pod transform the kernel into a mass of teliospores, which survive ...
    • Últimos años de registros del carbón del maní, ¿hacia dónde vamos? 

      Asinari, Florencia; Paredes, Juan Andrés; Monguillot, Joaquín Humberto; Cazon, Luis Ignacio; Edwards Molina, Juan Pablo; Rago, Alejandro Mario (Centro de Ingenieros Agrónomos de General Cabrera, 2019-09-19)
      Desde que inició su reporte en el año 1995, la enfermedad del carbón del maní (Thecaphora frezii) logró posicionarse en la mirada de productores e investigadores a nivel nacional y mundial. En el año 2012 ya registraba una ...