• Exploring the role of the NO‑detoxifying enzyme HmpA in the evolution of domesticated Alfalfa Rhizobia 

      Frare, Romina Alejandra; Pascuan, Cecilia Gabriela; Galindo Sotomonte, Luisa Fernanda; McCormick, Wayne; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel (Springer, 2022-02)
      We have previously shown the extensive loss of genes during the domestication of alfalfa rhizobia and the high nitrous oxide emission associated with the extreme genomic instability of commercial inoculants. In the present ...
    • 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 ways to evade the bacteriostatic action of glyphosate in rhizobia include the mutation of the conserved serine 90 of the nitrogenase subunit NifH to alanine 

      Liebrenz, Karen Ivana; Frare, Romina Alejandra; Gomez, Maria Cristina; Pascuan, Cecilia Gabriela; Brambilla, Silvina Maricel; Soldini, Diego Omar; Maguire, Vanina; Carrio, Alejandro Javier; Ruiz, Oscar; McCormick, Wayne; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel (Elsevier, 2022-07)
      The genome resequencing of spontaneous glyphosate-resistant mutants derived from the soybean inoculant E109 allowed identifying genes most likely associated with the uptake (gltL and cya) and metabolism (zigA and betA) of ...
    • 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 ...