• Baculovirus transduction in mammalian cells is affected by the production of type I and III interferons, which is mediated mainly by the cGAS-STING pathway 

      Amalfi, Sabrina; Molina, Guido Nicolas; Bevacqua, Romina Jimena; Lopez, Maria Gabriela; Taboga, Oscar Alberto; Alfonso, Victoria (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-11)
      The baculovirus Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus is an insect virus with a circular double-stranded DNA genome, which, among other multiple biotechnological applications, is used as an expression vector ...
    • Citrus genetic transformation: an overview of the current strategies and insights on the new emerging technologies 

      Conti, Gabriela; Xoconostle-Cázares, Beatriz; Marcelino-Pérez, Gabriel; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Reyes Martinez, Carina Andrea (Frontiers Media, 2021-11)
      Citrus are among the most prevailing fruit crops produced worldwide. The implementation of effective and reliable breeding programs is essential for coping with the increasing demands of satisfactory yield and quality of ...
    • CRISPR/Cas9 and genetic screens in malaria parasites : small genomes, big impact 

      Ishizaki, Takahiro; Hernandez, Sophia; Paoletta, Martina; Sanderson, Theo; Bushell, Ellen S. C. (Portland Press, 2022-06)
      The ∼30 Mb genomes of the Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria each encode ∼5000 genes, but the functions of the majority remain unknown. This is due to a paucity of functional annotation from sequence homology, which ...
    • Efficient CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in alfalfa using a public germplasm 

      Bottero, Ana Emilia; Massa, Gabriela Alejandra; Gonzalez, Matías Nicolás; Stritzler, Margarita; Tajima, Hiromi; Gomez, Maria Cristina; Frare, Romina Alejandra; Feingold, Sergio Enrique; Blumwald, Eduardo; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia (Frontiers Media, 2021-07)
      Because its ability to acquire large amounts of nitrogen by symbiosis, tetraploid alfalfa is the main source of vegetable proteins in meat and milk production systems in temperate regions. Alfalfa cultivation also adds ...
    • Expanding the benefits of Tnt1 for the identification of dominant mutations in polyploid crops: A single allelic mutation in the MsNAC39 gene produces multifoliated alfalfa 

      Jozefkowicz, Cintia; Gomez, Maria Cristina; Odorizzi, Ariel; Iantcheva, Anelia; Ratet, Pascal; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia (Frontiers Media, 2022-04)
      Most major crops are polyploid species and the production of genetically engineered cultivars normally requires the introgression of transgenic or gene-edited traits into elite germplasm. Thus, a main goal of plant research ...
    • Generation of a multi‑herbicide‑tolerant alfalfa by using base editing 

      Bottero, Ana Emilia; Gomez, Maria Cristina; Stritzler, Margarita; Tajima, Hiromi; Frare, Romina Alejandra; Pascuan, Cecilia Gabriela; Blumwald, Eduardo; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia (Springer, 2022-02)
      We present the first report on base editing in alfalfa. Specifically, we showed edited alfalfa with tolerance to both sulfonylurea- and imidazolinone-type herbicides. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is one of the most important ...
    • Multiple challenges in the development of commercial crops using CRISPR technology 

      Ayub, Nicolás Daniel; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia (Elsevier, 2023-10)
      The CRISPR/Cas system is a highly efficient and versatile tool for editing plant genomes, with the potential to accelerate breeding programs and improve the sustainability of food production. Nevertheless, technical ...
    • Rapid and cloning‑free screening of edited alfalfa via next‑generation sequencing 

      Stritzler, Margarita; Pascuan, Cecilia Gabriela; Bottero, Ana Emilia; Gomez, Maria Cristina; Frare, Romina Alejandra; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Tajima, Hiromi; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel; Blumwald, Eduardo; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia (Springer, 2022-07)
      The identification of full knockout plants is frequently the rate-limiting step of the research and commercial projects searching the complete loss of the function of target genes via the CRISPR/Cas9 system. This problem ...
    • Retrotransposon and CRISPR/Cas9‑mediated knockout of NOD26 impairs the legume‑rhizobia symbiosis 

      Frare, Romina Alejandra; Stritzler, Margarita; Gomez, Maria Cristina; Tajima, Hiromi; Pascuan, Cecilia Gabriela; López Fernández, María Paula; Bottero, Ana Emilia; Nikel, Pablo I.; Alleva, Karina Edith; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel; Blumwald, Eduardo; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia (Springer, 2022-07)
      The multifunctional channel NOD26, identified and extensively studied (both biochemically and biophysically) in soybean, is a major protein component of the symbiosome membrane. The water and ammonia transport activities ...
    • The Gln15Arg mutation in the transcriptional factor PALM1 produces multifoliate alfalfa 

      Gomez, Maria Cristina; Jozefkowicz, Cintia; Mozzicafreddo, Matteo; Odorizzi, Ariel; Arolfo, Valeria; Basigalup, Daniel Horacio; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia (Springer, 2022-12)
      The CRISPR/Cas9 system has proven to be highly valuable for genome editing in several important crops, including the allogamous tetraploid cultivated alfalfa (Medicago sativa). However, the fact that most of the beneficial ...