• First draft genome of Thecaphora frezii, causal agent of peanut smut disease 

      Arias, Renee S.; Conforto, Erica Cinthia; Orner, Valerie A.; Carloni, Edgardo José; Soave, Juan H.; Massa, Alicia N.; Lamb, Marshall C.; Bernanrdi Lima, Nelson; Rago, Alejandro Mario (BMC, 2023-02-16)
      Objectives: The fungal pathogen Thecaphora frezii Carranza & Lindquist causes peanut smut, a severe disease currently endemic in Argentina. To study the ecology of T. frezii and to understand the mechanisms of smut resistance ...
    • First report of a 16SrIII-X phytoplasma associated with Lactuca sativa witches’-broom in Argentina 

      Fernandez, Franco Daniel; Carloni, Edgardo José; Alessio, Florencia Ivette; Bongiorno, Vanina Aylén; Conci, Luis Rogelio (Wiley, 2022)
      During the summer of 2022, symptoms of witches’-broom, flowering malformation and redness were observed in lettuce plants (Lactuca sativa) in fields in Cordoba Province, Argentina (Fig. 1a). In the same fields, garlic ...