• A barnavirus sequence mined from a transcriptome of the Antarctic pearlwort Colobanthus quitensis 

      Nibert, Max L.; Manny, Austin R.; Debat, Humberto Julio; Firth, Andrew E.; Bertini, Laura; Caruso, Carla (2018-03)
      Because so few viruses in the family Barnaviridae have been reported, we searched for more of them in public sequence databases. Here, we report the complete coding sequence of Colobanthus quitensis associated barnavirus ...
    • A beginner’s guide for FMDV quasispecies analysis: sub-consensus variant detection and haplotype reconstruction using next-generation sequencing 

      Cacciabue, Marco Polo; Curra, Anabella Paola; Carrillo, Elisa Cristina; Konig, Guido Alberto; Gismondi, Maria Ines (Oxford Academic Press, 2020-09)
      Deep sequencing of viral genomes is a powerful tool to study RNA virus complexity. However, the analysis of next-generation sequencing data might be challenging for researchers who have never approached the study of viral ...
    • A brassinosteroid functional analogue increases soybean drought resilience 

      Perez Borroto, Lucia Sandra; Guzzo, María Carla; Posada, Gisella Anabel; Peña Malavera, Andrea Natalia; Castagnaro, Atilio Pedro; Gonzalez Olmedo, Justo Lorenzo; Coll, Yamilet; Pardo, Esteban Mariano (Nature Research, 2022-07-04)
      Drought severely affects soybean productivity, challenging breeding/management strategies to increase crop resilience. Hormone-based biostimulants like brassinosteroids (BRs) modulate growth/defence trade-off, mitigating ...
    • A candidate gene survey of quantitative trait loci affecting chemical composition in tomato fruit 

      Bermúdez, Luisa; Urias, Ursula; Milstein, D.; Kamenetzky, Laura; Asís, Ramón; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Van Sluys, M.A.; Carrari, Fernando; Rossi, Magdalena (Society for Experimental Biology, 2008-07)
      In tomato, numerous wild-related species have been demonstrated to be untapped sources of valuable genetic variability, including pathogen-resistance genes, nutritional, and industrial quality traits. From a collection of ...
    • A classification of “public and private” technologies in agriculture: an introductory framework 

      Penna, Julio A.; Lema, Rolando Daniel (IAMA (Estados Unidos), 2000-06)
      El trabajo se propone desarrollar un marco conceptual introductorio para clasificar y analizar la generación de técnicas públicas/privadas sobre la base de un sistema interactivo entre instituciones públicas y empresas privadas.
    • A closed-tube loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for the visual endpoint detection of Brucella spp. and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis 

      Trangoni, Marcos David; Gioffre, Andrea; Cravero, Silvio Lorenzo Pedro (Springer, 2017-06)
      LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification) is an isothermal nucleic acid amplification technique that is characterized by its efficiency, rapidity, high yield of final product, robustness, sensitivity, and specificity, ...
    • A comparison between support vector machine and water Cloud model for estimating crop leaf area index 

      Hosseini, Mehdi; McNairn, Heather; Mitchell, Scott; Robertson, Laura Dingle; Davidson, Andrew; Ahmadian, Nima; Bhattacharya, Avik; Borg, Erik; Conrad, Christopher; Dabrowska Zielinska, Katarzyna; De Abelleyra, Diego; Gurdak, Radoslaw; Kumar, Vineet; Kussul, Nataliia; Mandal, Dipankar; Rao, Y.S.; Saliendra, Nicanor; Shelestov, Andrii; Spengler, Daniel; Veron, Santiago Ramón; Homayouni, Saeid; Becker Reshef, Inbal (MDPI, 2021-04-01)
      The water cloud model (WCM) can be inverted to estimate leaf area index (LAI) using the intensity of backscatter from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors. Published studies have demonstrated that the WCM can accurately ...
    • A comprehensive analysis of the genetic diversity and environmental adaptability in worldwide Merino and Merino‑derived sheep breeds 

      Ceccobelli, Simone; Landi, Vincenzo; Senczuk, Gabriele; Mastrangelo, Salvatore; Sardina, Maria Teresa; Ben‑Jemaa, Slim; Persichilli, Christian; Karsli, Taki; Balteanu, Valentin‑Adrian; Raschia, Maria Agustina; Poli, Mario Andres; Ciappesoni, Gabriel; Muchadeyi, Farai Catherine; Dzomba, Edgar Farai; Kunene, Nokuthula Winfred; Lühken, Gesine; Deniskova, Tatiana Evgenievna; Dotsev, Arsen Vladimirovich; Zinovieva, Natalia Anatolievna; Zsolnai, Attila; Anton, István; Kusza, Szilvia; Carolino, Nuno; Santos‑Silva, Fátima; Kawęcka, Aldona; Swiatek, Marcin; Niżnikowski, Roman; Spehar, Marija; Anaya, Gabriel; Granero, Antonio; Perloiro, Tiago; Cardoso, Pedro; Grande, Silverio; López de los Santos, Beatriz; Danchin‑Burge, Coralie; Pasquini, Marina; Martínez Martínez, Amparo; Delgado Bermejo, Juan Vicente; Lasagna, Emiliano; Ciani, Elena; Sarti, Francesca Maria; Pilla, Fabio (BioMed Central, 2023-04)
      Background: To enhance and extend the knowledge about the global historical and phylogenetic relationships between Merino and Merino-derived breeds, 19 populations were genotyped with the OvineSNP50 BeadChip specifically ...
    • A computational study of the interaction of the foot and mouth disease virus VP1 with monoclonal antibodies 

      Marrero Diaz De Villegas, Rubén; Rodríguez Limardo, Ramiro; Carrillo, Elisa Cristina; Konig, Guido Alberto; Turjanski, Adrián G. (Elsevier, 2015-10)
      Foot and mouth disease is caused by a non-enveloped virus (FMDV), which disposes several antigenic sites at the surface of their capsid proteins. The most relevant and immunodominant antigenic site of FMDV (site A or AnSA) ...
    • A contribution of beef to human health : a review of the role of the animal production systems 

      Pighin, Darí­o Gabriel; Pordomingo, Anibal; Pazos, Adriana Alejandra; Grigioni, Gabriela Maria; Godoy, Maria Fernanda; Paschetta, Fernanda; Chamorro, Verónica Celeste; Cunzolo, Sebastián Abel; Messina, Valeria (2016)
      Meat and meat products constitute important source of protein, fat, and several functional compounds. Although beef consumption may implicate possible negative impacts on human health, its consumption can also contribute ...
    • A Coxiella mutualist symbiont is essential to the development of rhipicephalus microplus 

      Garcia Guizzo, Melina; Parizi, Luís Fernando; Nunes, Rodrigo Dutra; Schama, Renata; Albano, Rodolpho M.; Tirloni, Lucas; Oldiges, Daiane Patrícia; Pilz Vieira, Ricardo; Cruz Oliveira, Wanderson Henrique; De Souza Leite, Milane; Gonzalez, Sergio Alberto; Farber, Marisa Diana; Martins, Orlando; Da Silva Vaz, Itabajara; Oliveira, Pedro L. (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-12)
      The cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus is a hematophagous ectoparasite that causes important economic losses in livestock. Different species of ticks harbor a symbiont bacterium of the genus Coxiella. It was showed that ...
    • A direct high-throughput in Cell-ELISA for measuring infectivity of cytopathic and non-cytopathic bovine viral diarrhoea virus strains applied to the assessment of antiviral activity 

      Quintana, Maria Eugenia; Barone, Lucas; Forlenza, María Belén; Trotta, Myrian Vanesa; Turco, Cecilia; Mansilla, Florencia Celeste; Cardoso, Nancy Patricia; Capozzo, Alejandra Victoria (Elsevier, 2018-07-19)
      Low-cost high-throughput methods applicable to any virus strain are required for screening antiviral compounds against multiple field strains. Colorimetric cell-viability assays are used for this purpose as long as the ...
    • A Divergent Strain of Culex pipiens-Associated Tunisia Virus in the Malaria Vector Anopheles epiroticus 

      Debat, Humberto Julio; Ribeiro, José M.C. (2018-10-25)
      Here, we report the draft genome sequence of a divergent strain ofCulex pipiens-associated Tunisia virus (CpATV) identified in the malaria vectorAnoph-eles epiroticus(CpATV-AnE). CpATV-AnE expands the reference virus ...
    • A DNA vaccine formulated with chemical adjuvant provides partial protection against bovine herpes virus infection in cattle 

      Quattrocchi, Valeria; Soria, Ivana; Langellotti, Cecilia Ana; Gnazzo, Victoria; Gammella, Mariela; Moore, Prando Dadin; Zamorano, Patricia Ines (2017-01-25)
      Bovine herpesvirus-1 (BoHV-1) is the causative agent of bovine infectious rhinotracheitis, an important disease worldwide. Although conventional BoHV-1 vaccines, including those based on the use of modified live virus and ...
    • A fijivirus major viroplasm protein shows RNA-stimulated ATPase activity by adopting pentameric and hexameric assemblies of dimers 

      Llauger, Gabriela; Melero, Roberto; Monti, Demian Esteban; Sycz, Gabriela; Huck-Iriart, Cristian; Cerutti, Maria Laura; Klinke, Sebastián; Mikkelsen, Evelyn; Tijman, Ariel; Arranz, Rocío; Alfonso, Victoria; Arellano, Sofía Maité; Goldbaum, Fernando Alberto; Sterckx, Yann G. J.; Carazo, José María; Kaufman, Sergio B.; Dans, Pablo D.; Del Vas, Mariana; Otero, Lisandro H. (American Society for Microbiology, 2023-02)
      Fijiviruses replicate and package their genomes within viroplasms in a pro cess involving RNA-RNA and RNA-protein interactions. Here, we demonstrate that the 24 C-terminal residues (C-arm) of the P9-1 major viroplasm protein ...
    • A fungal protease named AsES triggers antiviral immune responses and effectively restricts virus infection in arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana plants 

      Caro, Maria Del Pilar; Venturuzzi, Andrea Laura; Moschen, Sebastian Nicolas; Salazar, Sergio Miguel; Díaz Ricci, Juan Carlos; Asurmendi, Sebastian (Oxford University Press, 2022-04)
      Background and Aims: Plants have evolved complex mechanisms to fight against pathogens. Among these mechanisms, pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) relies on the recognition of conserved microbe- or pathogen-associated molecular ...
    • A genome-wide association study unveils key chromosome regions involved in determining sodium accumulation in wheat under conditions of low potassium supply 

      Moriconi, Jorge I.; Silva, Martha; Zhang, Junli; Tranquilli, Gabriela; Santa-María, Guillermo E. (Elsevier, 2022-05-30)
      Improving nutrient use efficiency is an important objective in modern breeding programs. In this work, we examined potassium utilization efficiency (KUtE) and traits potentially related to it in a formerly genotyped, ...
    • A glimpse into the DNA virome of the unique “living fossil” Welwitschia mirabilis 

      Debat, Humberto Julio; Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban (Elsevier, 2022-08-10)
      Here, we report the identification and characterization of four novel DNA viruses from Welwitschia mirabilis transcriptomic and genomic datasets. Complete circular virus-like sequences with affinity to members of ...
    • A hard-to-keep promise: Vegetation use and aboveground carbon storage in silvopastures of the Dry Chaco 

      Fernandez, Pedro David; de Waroux, Yann le Polain; Jobbagy Gampel, Esteban Gabriel; Loto, Dante E.; Gasparri, Néstor Ignacio (Elsevier, 2020-11-01)
      In dry woodland regions, silvopastures have emerged as a promising option to balance cattle production, carbon storage and biodiversity. However, one of the major challenges in these systems, particularly when implemented ...
    • A land cover map of Latin America and the Caribbean in the framework of the SERENA project 

      Blanco, Paula Daniela; Colditz, Rene R.; López Saldaña, Gerardo; Hardtke, Leonardo Andrés; Llamas, Ricardo M.; Mari, Nicolás Alejandro; Fischer, Maria De Los Angeles; Caride, Constanza; Aceñolaza, Pablo Gilberto; del Valle, Hector Francisco; Lillo Saavedra, Mario F.; Coronato, Fernando Raul; Opazo, Sergio A.; Morelli, Fabiano; Anaya Acevedo, Jesús Adolfo; Sione, Walter Fabian; Zamboni, Pamela; Barrena Arroyo, Victor (Elsevier, 2013-05-15)
      Land cover maps at different resolutions and mapping extents contribute to modeling and support decision making processes. Because land cover affects and is affected by climate change, it is listed among the 13 terrestrial ...