• Metabolic and miRNA profiling of TMV infected plants reveals biphasic temporal changes 

      Bazzini, Ariel Alejandro; Manacorda, Carlos Augusto; Tohge, Takayuki; Conti, Gabriela; Rodriguez, Maria Cecilia; Nunes Nesi, Adriano; Villanueva, Sofía; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Carrari, Fernando; Asurmendi, Sebastian (2011-12-12)
      Plant viral infections induce changes including gene expression and metabolic components. Identification of metabolites and microRNAs (miRNAs) differing in abundance along infection may provide a broad view of the pathways ...
    • Snakin/GASA proteins : involvement in hormone crosstalk and redox homeostasis 

      Nahirñak, Vanesa; Almasia, Natalia Ines; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Vazquez Rovere, Cecilia (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
      Snakin/GASA proteins are widely distributed among plant species. They are expressed in different plant organs with high tissue and temporal specificity, and their subcellular localization varies among the different members. ...
    • Transgenic expression of tobacco mosaic virus capsid and movement proteins modulate plant basal defense and biotic stress responses in Nicotiana tabacum 

      Conti, Gabriela; Rodriguez, Maria Cecilia; Manacorda, Carlos Augusto; Asurmendi, Sebastian (2012)
      Plant viruses cause metabolic and physiological changes associated with symptomatic disease phenotypes. Symptoms involve direct and indirect effects, which result in disruption of host physiology. We used transgenic ...
    • Potato Snakin-1 Gene Silencing Affects Cell Division, Primary Metabolism, and Cell Wall Composition 

      Nahirñak, Vanesa; Almasia, Natalia Ines; Fernandez, Paula Virginia; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Estevez, Jose Manuel; Carrari, Fernando; Vazquez Rovere, Cecilia (American Society of Plant Biologists, 2012-01)
      Snakin-1 (SN1) is an antimicrobial cysteine-rich peptide isolated from potato (Solanum tuberosum) that was classified as a member of the Snakin/Gibberellic Acid Stimulated in Arabidopsis protein family. In this work, a ...
    • Surface Display of AcMNPV Occlusion-Derived P74 Does Not Enhance Oral Infectivity of Budded Viruses 

      Alfonso, Victoria; Lopez, Maria Gabriela; Carrillo, Elisa Cristina; Taboga, Oscar Alberto (S. Karger AG, 2012-02)
      Baculovirus occlusion-derived viruses (ODVs) and budded viruses (BVs) are morphologically and functionally distinct. ODVs are responsible for primary infection in insect hosts because of their high per os infectivity. On ...
    • Detection of Mycobacterium bovis–infected dairy herds using PCR in bulk tank milk samples 

      Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Soutullo, Adriana; Garcia, Maria Ines; Marini, M. Rocío; Abdala, Alejandro Ariel; Tarabla, Hector Dante; Echaide, Susana T. de; Lopez, Marcela; Zervini, Elsa; Canal, Ana María; Cataldi, Angel Adrian (Mary Ann Liebert Inc., 2012-02)
      Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a chronic and zoonotic disease due to Mycobacterium bovis. The tuberculosis eradication campaign carried out in Argentina has considerably improved the health situation of the herds. Here we ...
    • Genetic diversity of maize landraces from lowland and highland agro‐ecosystems of Southern South America: implications for the conservation of native resources 

      Bracco, Mariana; Lia, Veronica Viviana; Hernández, J.C.; Poggio, Lidia; Gottlieb, Alexandra Marina (Wiley, 2012-05)
      The North of Argentina is one of the southernmost areas of maize landrace cultivation. Two distinct centres of diversity have been distinguished within this region: Northwestern Argentina (NWA), and Northeastern Argentina ...
    • Association mapping in sunflower for sclerotinia head rot resistance 

      Fusari, Corina Mariana; Di Rienzo, Julio A.; Troglia, Carolina Beatriz; Nishinakamasu, Veronica; Moreno, Maria Valeria; Maringolo, Carla Andrea; Quiroz, Facundo Jose; Alvarez, Daniel; Escande, Alberto; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Heinz, Ruth Amelia; Lia, Veronica Viviana; Paniego, Norma Beatriz (BMC, 2012-06)
      Background: Sclerotinia Head Rot (SHR) is one of the most damaging diseases of sunflower in Europe, Argentina, and USA, causing average yield reductions of 10 to 20 %, but leading to total production loss under favorable ...
    • Changes in micro RNA expression in a wild tuber-bearing Solanum species induced by 5-Azacytidine treatment 

      Marfil, Carlos Federico; Asurmendi, Sebastian; Masuelli, Ricardo Williams (2012-08)
      Phenotypic plasticity is often postulated as a principal characteristic of tuber-bearing wild Solanum species. The hypotheses to explore this observation have been developed based on the presence of genetic variation. In ...
    • AcMNPV Core Gene ac109 Is Required for Budded Virion Transport to the Nucleus and for Occlusion of Viral Progeny 

      Alfonso, Victoria; Maroniche, Guillermo Andrés; Reca, Sol Rita; Lopez, Maria Gabriela; Del Vas, Mariana; Taboga, Oscar Alberto (Plos One, 2012-09)
      The Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) ac109 core gene has been previously characterized as an essential late gene. Our results showed that budded virions could be detected in supernatants of ...
    • In vivo subcellular localization of Mal de Río Cuarto virus (MRCV) non-structural proteins in insect cells reveals their putative functions 

      Maroniche, Guillermo Andrés; Mongelli, Vanesa Claudia; Llauger, Gabriela; Alfonso, Victoria; Taboga, Oscar Alberto; Del Vas, Mariana (Elsevier, 2012-09)
      The in vivo subcellular localization of Mal de Río Cuarto virus (MRCV, Fijivirus, Reoviridae) non-structural proteins fused to GFP was analyzed by confocal microscopy. P5-1 showed a cytoplasmic vesicular-like distribution ...
    • Development, characterization and experimental validation of a cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) gene expression oligonucleotide microarray 

      Fernandez, Paula Del Carmen; Soria, Marcelo Abel; Blesa, David; Di Rienzo, Julio A.; Moschen, Sebastian Nicolas; Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro; Clavijo, Bernardo; Gonzalez, Sergio; Peluffo, Lucila; Principi, Dario; Dosio, Guillermo; Aguirrezabal, Luis; García-García, Francisco; Conesa, Ana; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Dopazo, Joaquín; Heinz, Ruth Amelia; Paniego, Norma Beatriz (PLOS One, 2012-10)
      Oligonucleotide-based microarrays with accurate gene coverage represent a key strategy for transcriptional studies in orphan species such as sunflower, H. annuus L., which lacks full genome sequences. The goal of this study ...
    • Virulence factors of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex 

      Forrellad, Marina Andrea; Klepp, Laura Ines; Gioffre, Andrea; Sabio y Garcia, Julia Veronica; Morbidoni, Hector R.; Santangelo, María De La Paz; Cataldi, Angel Adrian; Bigi, Fabiana (Taylor & Francis, 2013-01)
      The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) consists of closely related species that cause tuberculosis in both humans and animals. This illness, still today, remains to be one of the leading causes of morbidity and ...
    • Transcriptional regulation of tocopherol biosynthesis in tomato 

      Quadrana, Leandro Daniel; Almeida de Souza, Juliana Beatriz; Otaiza, Santiago N.; Duffy, Tomas; Silva, Junia V. Corrêa da; Godoy, Fabiana de; Asís, Ramón; Bermúdez, Luisa; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Carrari, Fernando; Rossi, Magdalena (Springer, 2013-02)
      Tocopherols, compounds with vitamin E (VTE) activity, are potent lipid-soluble antioxidants synthesized only by photosynthetic organisms. Their biosynthesis requires the condensation of phytyl-diphosphate and homogentisate, ...
    • Understanding the relationship between Mycobacterium bovis spoligotypes from cattle in Latin American Countries 

      Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Arriaga, Camila; Barandiaran, Soledad; Cobos-Marín, Laura; de Waard, Jacobus; Estrada-Garcia, Iris; Figueiredo, Telma; Figueroa, Alvaro; Gimenez, Francisco; Gomes, Harrison M.; Gonzalez-y-Merchand, Jorge A.; Macías, Analía; Milián-Suazo, Feliciano; Rodríguez, Cesar Alejandro Rosales; Santillán, Marco Antonio; Suffys, Philip Noel; Trangoni, Marcos David; Zarraga, Ana Maria; Cataldi, Angel Adrian (Elsevier, 2013-02)
      Spoligotyping is the most frequently used method for genotyping isolates of Mycobacterium bovis worldwide. In the current work, we compared spoligotypes from 1684 M. bovis isolates from Argentina (816), Brazil (412), Chile ...
    • Galacturonosyltransferase 4 silencing alters pectin composition and carbon partitioning in tomato 

      Godoy, Fabiana de; Bermúdez, Luisa; Lira, Bruno Silvestre; Souza, Amanda Pereira de; Elbl, Paula; Demarco, Diego; Alseekh, Saleh; Insani, Ester Marina; Buckeridge, Marcos; Almeida, Juliana; Grigioni, Gabriela Maria; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Carrari, Fernando; Rossi, Magdalena (2013-04)
      Pectin is a main component of the plant cell wall and is the most complex family of polysaccharides in nature. Its composition is essential for the normal growth and morphology pattern, as demonstrated by pectin-defective ...
    • Mycobacterium bovis Dmce2 double deletion mutant protects cattle against challenge with virulent M. bovis 

      Blanco, Federico Carlos; Bianco, María Veronica; Garbaccio, Sergio Gabriel; Meikle, Virginia; Gravisaco, María José; Montenegro, Valeria Noely; Alfonseca, Edgar; Singh, Mahavir G.; Barandiaran, Soledad; Canal, Ana María; Vagnoni, Lucas Emilio; Buddle, Bryce Malcom; Bigi, Fabiana; Cataldi, Angel Adrian (Elsevier, 2013-05)
      A Mycobacterium bovis strain deleted in mce2A and mce2B genes (M. bovis Δmce2) was tested as an experimental vaccine in cattle challenged with a virulent M. bovis strain. Three-and-a-half-month old calves (n = 5 to 6 per ...
    • Transient expression of VP2 in Nicotiana benthamiana and its use as a plant-based vaccine against Infectious Bursal Disease Virus 

      Gomez, Evangelina Raquel; Lucero, Maria Soledad; Chimeno Zoth, Silvina Andrea; Carballeda, Juan Manuel; Gravisaco, María José; Berinstein, Analia (Elsevier, 2013-05-28)
      Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV) is the etiological agent of an immunosuppressive and highly contagious disease that affects young birds. This disease causes important economic losses in the poultry industry worldwide. ...
    • VP1 protein of Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) impairs baculovirus surface display 

      Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Maroniche, Guillermo Andrés; Alfonso, Victoria; Molinari, Maria Paula; Taboga, Oscar Alberto (Elsevier, 2013-07)
      The Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) causes important economical losses in livestock farming. In order to develop a novel subunit vaccine against FMDV, we constructed recombinant baculoviruses that display the protein ...
    • Agroinoculation of a full-length cDNA clone of cotton leafroll dwarf virus (CLRDV) results in systemic infection in cotton and the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana 

      Delfosse, Veronica Cecilia; Casse, Maria Florencia; Agrofoglio, Yamila Carla; Bonacic Kresic, Iván; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Ziegler-Graff, Véronique; Distefano, Ana Julia (2013-07)
      Cotton blue disease is the most important viral disease of cotton in the southern part of South America. Its etiological agent, cotton leafroll dwarf virus (CLRDV), is specifically transmitted to host plants by the aphid ...