• An Unwanted Association: The Threat to Papaya Crops by a Novel Potexvirus in Northwest Argentina 

      Cabrera Mederos, Dariel; Debat, Humberto Julio; Torres, Carolina; Portal, Orelvis; Jaramillo Zapata, Margarita; Trucco, Veronica Milagros; Flores, Ceferino Rene; Ortiz, Claudio Manuel; Badaracco, Alejandra; Acuña, Luis Eduardo; Nome Docampo, Claudia; Quito-Avila, Diego; Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Castellanos Collazo, Onias; Sánchez-Rodríguez, Aminael; Giolitti, Fabian (MDPI, 2022-10-19)
      An emerging virus isolated from papaya (Carica papaya) crops in northwestern (NW) Argentina was sequenced and characterized using next-generation sequencing. The resulting genome is 6667-nt long and encodes five open reading ...
    • Detection and Identification of the First Viruses in Chia (Salvia hispanica) 

      Celli, Marcos Giovani; Perotto, Maria Cecilia; Martino, Julia Andrea; Flores, Ceferino Rene; Conci, Vilma Cecilia; Rodriguez Pardina, Patricia (MDPI, 2014-09)
      Chia (Salvia hispanica), an herbaceous plant native to Latin America, has become important in the last 20 years due to its beneficial effects on health. Here, we present the first record and identification of two viruses ...
    • First report of cowpea mild mottle virus in chia (Salvia hispanica) 

      Celli, Marcos Giovani; Perotto, Maria Cecilia; Merino, Maria Alicia; Nome Docampo, Claudia; Flores, Ceferino Rene; Conci, Vilma Cecilia (2016)
      Chia (Salvia hispanica), a herbaceous plant of Lamiaceae family, has gained popularity due to its high concentrations of health-beneficial Omega-3 fatty acids. Plants showing different virus-like symptoms were observed ...
    • Reconstruction and characterization of full-length begomovirus and alphasatellite genomes infecting pepper through metagenomics 

      Bornancini, Veronica Andrea; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Flores, Ceferino Rene; Vaghi Medina, Carlos Gaston; Amadio, Ariel; Lopez Lambertini, Paola Maria (MDPI, 2020-02)
      In northwestern Argentina (NWA), pepper crops are threatened by the emergence of begomoviruses due to the spread of its vector, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius). The genus Begomovirus includes pathogens that can have a monopartite ...
    • Tomato apical leaf curl virus: a novel, monopartite geminivirus detected in tomatoes in Argentina 

      Vaghi Medina, Carlos Gaston; Teppa, Elin; Bornancini, Veronica Andrea; Flores, Ceferino Rene; Marino Buslje, Cristina; Lopez Lambertini, Paola Maria (2018-01)
      Plant viruses that are members of the Geminiviridae family have circular single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) genome and are responsible for major crop diseases worldwide. We have identified and characterized a novel monopartite ...