• 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 ...
    • Heat‑related massive chick mortality in an Imperial Cormorant Leucocarbo atriceps colony from Patagonia, Argentina 

      Quintana, Flavio; Uhart, Marcela M.; Gallo, Luciana; Mattera, María Belén; Rimondi, Agustina; Gómez‑Laich, Agustina (Springer, 2022-02)
      Climate change has exacerbated the frequency and severity of heat waves, which on occasion lead to mass mortalities. Here, we report a massive mortality event in Imperial Cormorant Leucocarbo atriceps chicks that took place ...
    • Mutation Breeding for Sustainable Food Production in Latin America and the Caribbean Under Climate Change 

      González Cepero, María Caridad; Gómez Pando, Luz; De Andrade, Alexander; Arguello Delgado, Juan Felix; Nakayama Nakashima, Héctor; Landau, Alejandra Mabel; Prina, Alberto Raul; Rodríguez García, Mayra; Suchini Farfan, Aura; de la Cruz Torres, Eulogio (Springer Nature, 2023)
      The region of Latin America and the Caribbean is characterized by the great diversity of crops and environmental conditions where the crops coexist under the effects of different abiotic and biotic stresses, which impact ...
    • The Current and Future Role of Microbial Culture Collections in Food Security Worldwide 

      Díaz-Rodríguez, Alondra María; Salcedo Gastelum, Lilian Alejandra; Félix Pablos, Carmen María; Parra-Cota, Fannie Isela; Santoyo, Gustavo; Puente, Mariana Laura; Bhattacharya, Dhruba; Mukherjee, Joydeep; de los Santos-Villalobos, Sergio (Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-01-14)
      Food security is the pillar of nutritional wellbeing for food availability, and is necessary to satisfy all physiological needs to thus maintain the general wellbeing of populations. However, global agricultural deficiencies ...