• Aerial spread of smut spores during peanut harvest 

      Paredes, Juan Andrés; Sparks, Adam H.; Monguillot, Joaquín Humberto; Rago, Alejandro Mario; Edwards Molina, Juan Pablo (Springer, 2024-03-18)
      Peanut smut (Thecaphora frezzii) is one of the most important peanut diseases in Argentinian peanut production. This monocyclic soil-borne pathogen transforms kernels into spore masses. Spore liberation from broken infected ...
    • 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 ...
    • Draft genome sequence data of Nothopassalora personata, peanut foliar pathogen from Argentina 

      Monguillot, Joaquín Humberto; Arias, Renee S.; Orner, Valerie A.; Massa, Alicia N.; Sobolev, Victor S.; Bernanrdi Lima, Nelson; Paredes, Juan Andrés; Oddino, Claudio; Carmona, Marcelo; Conforto, Erica Cinthia (Elsevier, 2024-04)
      Late leaf spot (LLS) caused by the Ascomycete Nothopassalora personata (N.p.) (Syn. Cercosporidium personatum) is the main foliar disease of peanuts in Argentina and in peanut producing areas of the world, causing up to ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Morphological and molecular characterization of Nothopassalora personata from Argentina 

      Monguillot, Joaquín Humberto; Bernanrdi Lima, Nelson; Paredes, Juan Andrés; Giordano, Damián Francisco; Oddino, Claudio; Rago, Alejandro Mario; Carmona, Marcelo; Conforto, Erica Cinthia (Springer, 2023-01-10)
      Late leaf spot (LLS) is the most important foliar disease of peanuts in Argentina and in other peanut production areas, causing defoliation and yield losses. In this study, six isolates obtained from symptomatic leaflets ...
    • 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 ...