• Genome-based reclassification of Azospirillum brasilense Az39 as the type strain of Azospirillum argentinense sp. nov. 

      dos Santos Ferreira, Natália; Coniglio, Nayla Anahí; Puente, Mariana Laura; Sant’Anna, Fernando Hayashi; Maroniche, Guillermo Andrés; Garcia, Julia Elena; Molina, Romina Micaela; Nievas, Sofía; Volpiano, Camila Gazolla; Ambrosini, Adriana; Passaglia, Luciane Maria Pereira; Pedraza, Raúl Osvaldo; Reis, Veronica Massena; Zilli, Jerri Edson; Cassan, Fabricio Dario (Microbiology Society, 2022-08-01)
      Strain Az39T of Azospirillum is a diazotrophic plant growth-promoting bacterium isolated in 1982 from the roots of wheat plants growing in Marcos Juárez, Córdoba, Argentina. It produces indole-3- acetic acid in the presence ...
    • Genome-enabled and phenotypic selection of alfalfa for widely-diversified cropping environments 

      Annicchiarico, Paolo; Nazzicari, Nelson; Bouizgaren, Abdelaziz; Hayek, Taoufik; Laouar, Meriem; Cornacchione, Monica; Basigalup, Daniel Horacio; Brummer, Edward Charles; Pecetti, Luciano (2018-11-11)
      The decrease of rainfall amount due to climate change, and the reduction of irrigation water caused by growing water demand for non-agricultural uses, emphasize the importance of breeding novel alfalfa varieties that are ...
    • Genome-enabled insights into the biology of thrips as crop pests 

      Rotenberg, Dorith; Baumann, Aaron A.; Ben-Mahmoud, Sulley; Christiaens, Olivier; Dermauw, Wannes; Ioannidis, Panagiotis; Jacobs, Chris G. C.; Vargas Jentzsch, Iris M.; Oliver, Jonathan E.; Poelchau, Monica F.; Priya Rajarapu, Swapna; Schneweis, Derek J.; Snoeck, Simon; Taning, Clauvis N. T.; Wei, Dong; Widana Gamage, Shirani M. K.; Hughes, Daniel S. T.; Murali, Shwetha C.; Bailey, Samuel T.; Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Holmes, Christopher J.; Jennings, Emily C.; Rosendale, Andrew J.; Rosselot, Andrew; Hervey, Kaylee; Schneweis, Brandi A.; Cheng, Sammy; Childers, Christopher; Simão, Felipe A.; Dietzgen, Ralf G.; Chao, Hsu; Dinh, Huyen; Vardhan Doddapaneni, Harsha; Dugan, Shannon; Han, Yi; Lee, Sandra L.; Muzny, Donna M.; Qu, Jiaxin; Worley, Kim C.; Benoit, Joshua B.; Friedrich, Markus; Jones, Jeffery W.; Panfilio, Kristen A.; Park, Yoonseong; Robertson, Hugh M.; Smagghe, Guy; Ullman, Diane E.; Van der Zee, Maurijn; Van Leeuwen, Thomas; Veenstra, Jan A.; Waterhouse, Robert M.; Weirauch, Matthew T.; Werren, John H.; Whitfield, Anna E.; Zdobnov, Evgeny M.; Gibbs, Richard A.; Richards, Stephen (BMC, 2020-10-19)
      Background The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande), is a globally invasive pest and plant virus vector on a wide array of food, fiber and ornamental crops. While there are numerous studies centered ...
    • Genome-Wide Analyses of Aspartic Proteases on Potato Genome (Solanum tuberosum): Generating New Tools to Improve the Resistance of Plants to Abiotic Stress 

      Norero, Natalia Sigrid; Rey Burusco, María Florencia; D’Ippólito, Sebastián; Decima Oneto, Cecilia Andrea; Massa, Gabriela Alejandra; Castellote, Martín Alfredo; Feingold, Sergio Enrique; Guevara, María Gabriela (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, MDPI, 2022-02)
      Aspartic proteases are proteolytic enzymes widely distributed in living organisms and viruses. Although they have been extensively studied in many plant species, they are poorly described in potatoes. The present study ...
    • Genome-Wide Analyses of Subtilisin-Like Serine Proteases on Solanum tuberosum 

      Norero, Natalia Sigrid; Castellote, Martín Alfredo; de la Canal, Laura; Feingold, Sergio Enrique (Springer Netherlands, 2016-10)
      Plant subtilisin-like serine proteases or subtilases constitute a large expanded gene subfamily in potato. We identified 82 potato subtilases encoded by 74 genes. All subtilases present a characteristic S08 domain, and the ...
    • Genome-wide analysis of the snakin/GASA gene family in solanum tuberosum cv. Kennebec 

      Nahirñak, Vanesa; Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro; Gonzalez De Urreta, Martin Salvador; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Almasia, Natalia Ines; Vazquez Rovere, Cecilia (2016-04)
      Snakin/GASA proteins have been involved in different aspects of plant growth and development although their exact role is still intriguing. All of them maintain 12 cysteines of the C-terminus in highly conserved positions ...
    • 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 ...
    • Genome-wide association analysis of agronomical and physiological traits linked to drought tolerance in a diverse potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) panel 

      Tagliotti, Martín Enrique; Deperi, Sofia; Bedogni, Maria Cecilia; Huarte, Marcelo Atilio (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2021-06-12)
      Potatoes is often considered a drought-sensitive crop and its sustainable production is threatened due to frequent drought episodes. Drought tolerance is a complex trait of increasing importance in potatoes therefore its ...
    • Genome-wide association studies in sunflower : towards sclerotinia sclerotiorum and diaporthe/phomopsis resistance breeding 

      Filippi, Carla Valeria; Corro Molas, Andres Ezequiel; Dominguez, Matías; Colombo, Denis Nahuel; Heinz, Nicolás; Troglia, Carolina Beatriz; Maringolo, Carla Andrea; Quiroz, Facundo Jose; Alvarez, Daniel; Lia, Veronica Viviana; Paniego, Norma Beatriz (MDPI, 2022-12)
      Diseases caused by necrotrophic fungi, such as the cosmopolitan Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and the Diaporthe/Phomopsis complex, are among the most destructive diseases of sunflower worldwide. The lack of complete resistance ...
    • Genome-wide association study for resistance in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) races in Argentina 

      Franco, Maria Fiorella; Polacco, A.N.; Campos, Pablo Eduardo; Pontaroli, Ana Clara; Vanzetti, Leonardo Sebastian (BioMed Central, 2022-11-24)
      Background: Wheat stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is one of the most devastating diseases of the wheat crop. It causes significant reductions in both grain yield and grain quality. In ...
    • Genome-wide association study for somatic cell score in Argentinean dairy cattle 

      Nani, Juan Pablo; Raschia, Maria Agustina; Poli, Mario Andres; Calvinho, Luis Fernando; Amadio, Ariel (2015-05)
      This study aimed to understand the genomic architecture of Argentinean dairy herds by measuring linkage disequilibrium (LD) and identifying loci associated with parameters calculated from somatic cell count (SCC). Phenotypic ...
    • Genome-wide data (ChIP-seq) enabled identification of cell wall-related and aquaporin genes as targets of tomato ASR1, a drought stress-responsive transcription factor 

      Ricardi, Martiniano María; González, Rodrigo Matías; Silin, Zhong; Dominguez, Pia Guadalupe; Duffy, Tomas; Turjanski, Pablo Guillermo; Salgado Salter, Juan David; Alleva, Karina Edith; Carrari, Fernando; Giovannoni, James J.; Estevez, Jose Manuel; Iusem, Norberto Daniel (BMC, 2014-01)
      Background: Identifying the target genes of transcription factors is important for unraveling regulatory networks in all types of organisms. Our interest was precisely to uncover the spectrum of loci regulated by a widespread ...
    • Genome-wide diversity in lowland and highland maize landraces from southern South America: population genetics insights to assist conservation 

      Dominguez, Pia Guadalupe; Gutierrez, Ángela Verónica; Fass, Monica Irinia; Filippi, Carla Valeria; Vera, Pablo; Puebla, Andrea; Defacio, Raquel Alicia; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Lia, Veronica Viviana (BioRxiv, 2024-02)
      Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) landraces are traditional American crops with high genetic variability that conform a source of original alleles for conventional maize breeding. Northern Argentina, one the southernmost regions ...
    • Genome-wide gene expression of a natural hybrid between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and S. kudriavzevii under enological conditions 

      Combina, Mariana; Perez Torrado, Roberto; Tronchoni, Jordi; Belloch, Carmela; Querol, Amparo (Elsevier, 2012-07-16)
      The species Saccharomyces cerevisiae plays a predominant role in the wine making process. However, other species have been associated with must fermentation, such as Saccharomyces uvarum (Saccharomyces bayanus var. uvarum) ...
    • Genome-wide identification of microRNA targets in the neglected disease pathogens of the genus Echinococcus 

      Macchiaroli, Natalia; Maldonado, Lucas; Zarowiecki, Magdalena; Cucher, Marcela Alejandra; Gismondi, Maria Ines; Kamenetzky, Laura; Rosenzvit, Mara Cecilia (2017-06)
      MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small non-coding RNAs, are key regulators of gene expression at posttranscriptional level and play essential roles in biological processes such as development. MiRNAs silence target mRNAs by ...
    • Genome-wide identification of MITE-derived microRNAs and their targets in bread wheat 

      Crescente, Juan Manuel; Zavallo, Diego; Del Vas, Mariana; Asurmendi, Sebastian; Helguera, Marcelo; Fernandez, Elmer; Vanzetti, Leonardo Sebastian (BioMed Central, 2022-02)
      Background: Plant miRNAs are a class of small non-coding RNAs that can repress gene expression at the post-transcriptional level by targeting RNA degradation or promoting translational repression. There is increasing ...
    • Genome-wide identification of the mutation uderlying fleece variation and discriminating ancestral hairy species from modern woolly sheep 

      Demars, Julie; Cano, Ema Margarita; Drouilhet, Laurence; Plisson-Petit, Florence; Bardou, Philippe; Fabre, Stéphane; Servin, Bertrand; Sarry, Julien; Woloszyn, Florent; Mulsant, Philippe; Foulquier, Didier; Carriere, Fabien; Aletru, Mathias; Rodde, Nathalie; Cauet, Stéphane; Bouchez, Olivier; Pirson, Maarten; Tosser-Klopp, Gwenola; Allain, Daniel (Oxford university press, 2017-07)
      The composition and structure of fleece variation observedin mammals is a consequence of a strong selective pressure for fiber production after domestication. In sheep, fleece variation discriminates ancestral species ...
    • Genome-wide scan for commons SNPs affecting bovine leukemia virus infection level in dairy cattle 

      Carignano, Hugo Adrian; Roldan, Dana Leticia; Beribe, Maria Jose; Raschia, Maria Agustina; Amadio, Ariel; Nani, Juan Pablo; Gutierrez, Gerónimo; Alvarez, Irene; Trono, Karina Gabriela; Poli, Mario Andres; Miretti, Marcos Mateo (2018-02-13)
      Background: Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) infection is omnipresent in dairy herds causing direct economic losses due to trade restrictions and lymphosarcoma-related deaths. Milk production drops and increase in the culling ...
    • Genomic analysis of an Argentinean isolate of Spodoptera frugiperda granulovirus reveals that various baculoviruses code for Lef-7 proteins with three F-box domains 

      Ferrelli, Maria Leticia; Pidre, Matias Luis; Ghiringhelli, Pablo Daniel; Torres, Sofía; Fabre, María Laura; Masson, Tomás; Cédola, Maia Tatiana; Sciocco, Alicia Ines; Romanowski, Victor (2018)
      A new isolate of the Spodoptera frugiperda granulovirus, SfGV ARG, was completely sequenced and analyzed. The SfGV ARG genome is 139,812 bp long and encodes 151 putative open reading frames. Of these ORFs, 56 were found ...
    • Genomic analysis of shiga toxin-containing Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolated from Argentinean cattle 

      Amadio, Ariel; Bono, James L.; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Larzabal, Mariano; Marques Da Silva, Wanderson; Eberhardt, María Florencia; Riviere, Nahuel Agustin; Gally, David; Manning, Shannon D.; Cataldi, Angel Adrian (Plos, 2021-10)
      Cattle are the main reservoir of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), with O157:H7 the distinctive serotype. EHEC is the main causative agent of a severe systemic disease, Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS). Argentina ...