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    • Exploring the role of the NO‑detoxifying enzyme HmpA in the evolution of domesticated Alfalfa Rhizobia 

      Frare, Romina Alejandra; Pascuan, Cecilia Gabriela; Galindo Sotomonte, Luisa Fernanda; McCormick, Wayne; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel (Springer, 2022-02)
      We have previously shown the extensive loss of genes during the domestication of alfalfa rhizobia and the high nitrous oxide emission associated with the extreme genomic instability of commercial inoculants. In the present ...
    • Epidemiology of Pig Tuberculosis in Argentina 

      Barandiaran, Soledad; Marfil, Maria Jimena; Capobianco, Guillermo; Perez Aguirreburualde, María Sol; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Eirin, Maria Emilia; Cuerda, Maria Ximena; Winter, Marina; Martinez Vivot, Marcela; Pérez, Andrés Maximiliano; La Sala, Luciano Francisco (Frontiers Editorial, 2021-07)
      Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a disease caused mainly by the Mycobacterium bovis and that is endemic to livestock populations in most Latin American countries. Traditionally, bTB control programs are costly and targeted to ...
    • Fungicide resistance in Cercospora species causing cercospora leaf blight and purple seed stain of soybean in Argentina 

      Sautua, Francisco José; Doyle, Vinson P.; Price, Paul P.; Porfiri, Alejandro; Fernandez, Paula Del Carmen; Scandiani, María Mercedes; Carmona, Marcelo Anibal (Wiley, 2020-12)
      Cercospora species cause cercospora leaf blight (CLB) and purple seed stain (PSS) on soybean. Because there are few resistant soybean varieties available, CLB/PSS management relies heavily upon fungicide applications. ...
    • Use of molecular tools for the diagnosis of rangeliosis by Rangelia vitalii in Argentina: A case report 

      Borras, Pablo; Salvador, F.; Rinaldi, V.; Armitano, Rita Inés; Farber, Marisa Diana; Sanchez, R.; Mori, L.; Guillemi, Eliana Carolina (Elsevier, 2020-07)
      Vector-borne pathogens are responsible for serious emerging diseases and Rangelia vitalii, the etiologic agent of canine rangeliosis, is one of the most pathogenic tick-borne pathogens for dogs in South America. This ...
    • Mycobacterial MCE proteins as transporters that control lipid homeostasis of the cell wall 

      Klepp, Laura Ines; Sabio Y Garcia, Julia Veronica; Bigi, Fabiana (Elsevier, 2022-01)
      Mammalian cell entry (mce) genes are not only present in genomes of pathogenic mycobacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (the causative agent of tuberculosis), but also in saprophytic and opportunistic mycobacterial ...
    • PsAA9A, a C1-specific AA9 lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase from the white-rot basidiomycete Pycnoporus sanguineus 

      Garrido, Mercedes Maria; Landoni, Malena; Sabbadin, Federico; Valacco, María Pía; Couto, Alicia; Bruce, Neil Charles; Wirth, Sonia Alejandra; Campos, Eleonora (Springer, 2020-09)
      Woody biomass represents an important source of carbon on earth, and its global recycling is highly dependent on Agaricomycetes fungi. White-rot Basidiomycetes are a very important group in this regard, as they possess a ...
    • Plant beneficial rhizobacteria community structure changes through developmental stages of peanut and maize 

      Anzuay, María Soledad; Pin Viso, Natalia Daniela; Ludueña, Liliana Mercedes; Morla, Federico Daniel; Angelini, Jorge Guillermo; Taurian, Tania (Elsevier, 2021-09)
      Our objective in this study was to analyze the structure of the rhizobacterial community during different growth stages of peanut and maize plants. Microcosm assays were performed using pots containing unsterile soil from ...
    • Genome-wide and comparative phylogenetic analysis of senescence-associated NAC transcription factors in sunflower (Helianthus annuus) 

      Bengoa Luoni, Sofía Ailin; Cenci, Alberto; Moschen, Sebastian Nicolas; Nicosia, Salvador Maria; Radonic, Laura Mabel; Sabio Y Garcia, Julia Veronica; Langlade, Nicolas B.; Vile, Denis; Vazquez Rovere, Cecilia; Fernandez, Paula Del Carmen (Springer, 2021-12)
      Background: Leaf senescence delay impacts positively in grain yield by maintaining the photosynthetic area during the reproductive stage and during grain filling. Therefore a comprehensive understanding of the gene families ...
    • Diversity of the BoLA-DRB3 gene in cattle breeds from tropical and subtropical regions of Argentina 

      Valenzano, Magali Nicole; Caffaro, María Eugenia; Lia, Veronica Viviana; Poli, Mario Andres; Wilkowsky, Silvina Elizabeth (Springer, 2021-12)
      Bovine leukocyte antigens (BoLA) have been widely studied because of their primary function in the recognition of pathogens by the immune system. To date, however, the characterization of the BoLA-DRB3 gene in Latin American ...
    • PIP aquaporin pH sensing is regulated by the length and charge of the C-terminal region 

      Scochera, Florencia; Zerbetto De Palma, Gerardo; Canessa Fortuna, Agustina; Chevriau, Jonathan; Toriano, Roxana; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia; Zeida, Ari; Alleva, Karina Edith (Wiley, 2021-07)
      Plant PIP aquaporins play a central role in controlling plant water status. The current structural model for PIP pH-gating states that the main pH sensor is located in loopD and that all the mobile cytosolic elements ...
    • The subunit vaccine H65 + CAF01 increased the BCG- protection against Mycobacterium bovis infection in a mouse model of bovine tuberculosis 

      Blanco, Federico Carlos; Garcia, Elizabeth Andrea; Aagaard, Claus; Bigi, Fabiana (Elsevier, 2021-05)
      H65, a fusion protein of three pairs of ESX-secreted antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis, formulated with the liposomal adjuvant CAF01 has been shown to confer protection against M. tuberculosis ...
    • Development of highly sensitive one step-PCR tests for improved detection of B. bigemina and B. bovis 

      De La Fourniere, Sofía Ana María; Paoletta, Martina; Guillemi, Eliana Carolina; Sarmiento, Nestor Fabian; Donati, Pablo Alejandro; Wilkowsky, Silvina Elizabeth; Farber, Marisa Diana (Elsevier, 2021-08)
      Bovine babesiosis caused by Babesia bigemina and B. bovis is an economically relevant tick-borne disease distributed over tropical and subtropical world regions. Animals that recover from the clinical disease can remain ...
    • K-mer counting and curated libraries drive efficient annotation of repeats in plant genomes 

      Contreras-Moreira, Bruno; Filippi, Carla Valeria; Naamati, Guy; García Girón, Carlos; Allen, James E.; Flicek, Paul (Wiley, 2021-09)
      The annotation of repetitive sequences within plant genomes can help in the interpretation of observed phenotypes. Moreover, repeat masking is required for tasks such as whole-genome alignment, promoter analysis, or pangenome ...
    • A β-Hairpin Motif in the Envelope Protein E2 Mediates Receptor Binding of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus 

      Merwaiss, Fernando; Pascual, María José; Pomilio, María Trinidad; Lopez, Maria Gabriela; Taboga, Oscar Alberto; Alvarez, Diego Ezequiel (MDPI, 2021-06)
      Pestivirus envelope protein E2 is crucial to virus infection and accomplishes virus-receptor interaction during entry. However, mapping of E2 residues mediating these interactions has remained unexplored. In this study, ...
    • Early immune innate hallmarks and microbiome changes across the gut during Escherichia coli O157: H7 infection in cattle 

      Larzabal, Mariano; Marques Da Silva, Wanderson; Multani, Anmol; Vagnoni, Lucas Emilio; Moore, Prando Dadin; Marin, Maia Solange; Riviere, Nahuel Agustin; Delgado, Fernando Oscar; Vilte, Daniel Alejandro; Romero Victorica, Matias; Tao, Ma; Luo, Le Guan; Talia, Paola Mónica; Cataldi, Angel Adrian; Cobo, Eduardo Rubén (SpringerNature, 2020-12)
      The zoonotic enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157: H7 bacterium causes diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in humans. Cattle are primary reservoirs and EHEC O157: H7; the bacteria ...
    • Development and evaluation of a low cost IgG ELISA test based in RBD protein for COVID-19 

      Villafañe, Luciana María; Gallo Vaulet, Maria Lucia; Viere, Florencia M.; Klepp, Laura Ines; Forrellad, Marina Andrea; Bigi, María Mercedes; Romano, Maria Isabel; Magistrelli, Giovanni; Rodríguez Fermepin, Marcelo; Bigi, Fabiana (Elsevier, 2022-01)
      Serology tests for SARS-CoV-2 have proven to be important tools to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. These serological tests can be used in low-income and remote areas for patient contact tracing, epidemiologic studies ...
    • Baculovirus AcMNPV induces type I interferons and NK/NKT cells-mediated protection against foot-and-mouth disease virus in mice 

      Molina, Guido Nicolas; Cacciabue, Marco Polo; Gismondi, Maria Ines; Taboga, Oscar Alberto; Molinari, Maria Paula (Elsevier, 2020-08)
      Foot-and-mouth disease is a viral illness that affects cloven-hoofed animals causing serious economic losses. Inactivated vaccines against its causative agent, foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), require approximately ...
    • Evaluation of a virulent strain of Mycobacterium avium subsp. Paratuberculosis used as a heat-killed vaccine 

      Colombatti Olivieri, Maria Alejandra; Moyano, Roberto Damian; Mon, Maria Laura; Gravisaco, María José; Alvarado Pinedo, María Fiorella; Delgado, Fernando Oscar; Hernández Pando, Rogelio; Alonso, Maria Natalia; Cuerda, Maria Ximena; Santangelo, María De La Paz; Romano, Maria Isabel (Elsevier, 2021-11)
      Bovine paratuberculosis is one of the most important chronic infectious diseases in livestock. This disease is difficult to control because of its inefficient management (test and cull strategy and inadequate biosecurity). ...
    • Peculiarities of the Transformation of Asteraceae Family Species: The Cases of Sunflower and Lettuce 

      Darqui, Flavia Soledad; Radonic, Laura Mabel; Beracochea, Valeria Cecilia; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Lopez Bilbao, Marisa Gisela (Frontiers Publishing, 2021-11)
      The Asteraceae family is the largest and most diversified family of the Angiosperms, characterized by the presence of numerous clustered inflorescences, which have the appearance of a single compound flower. It is estimated ...
    • A participatory surveillance of marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus) morbidity and mortality in Argentina: first results 

      Orozco, María Marcela; Argibay, Hernán Darío; Minatel, Leonardo; Guillemi, Eliana Carolina; Berra, Yanina; Schapira, Andrea; Di Nucci, Dante; Marcos, Andrea; Lois, Fernanda; Falzone, Martín; Farber, Marisa Diana (BMC, 2020-09)
      Background: In an era of unprecedented socio-ecological changes, managing wildlife health demands high-quality data collection and the engagement of local communities. Blastocerus dichotomus, the largest South American ...