• 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 ...
    • On-field phenotypic evaluation of sunflower populations for broad-spectrum resistance to Verticillium leaf mottle and wilt 

      Montecchia, Juan Francisco; Fass, Monica Irina; Cerrudo, Ignacio; Quiroz, Facundo Jose; Nicosia, Salvador Maria; Maringolo, Carla Andrea; Di Rienzo, Julio A.; Troglia, Carolina Beatriz; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Escande, Alberto; Gonzalez, Julio Horacio; Alvarez, Daniel; Heinz, Ruth Amelia; Lia, Veronica Viviana; Paniego, Norma Beatriz (Springer Nature, 2021-06)
      Sunflower Verticillium Wilt and Leaf Mottle (SVW), caused by Verticillium dahliae (Kleb.; Vd), is a soil-borne disease affecting sunflower worldwide. A single dominant locus, known as V1, was formerly effective in controlling ...
    • Population structure and genetic diversity characterization of a sunflower association mapping population using SSR and SNP markers 

      Filippi, Carla Valeria; Aguirre, Natalia Cristina; Rivas, Juan Gabriel; Zubrzycki, Jeremias Enrique; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Cordes, Diego Darío; Moreno, Maria Valeria; Fusari, Corina Mariana; Alvarez, Daniel; Heinz, Ruth Amelia; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Lia, Veronica Viviana (BMC, 2015-02)
      Background: Argentina has a long tradition of sunflower breeding, and its germplasm is a valuable genetic resource worldwide. However, knowledge of the genetic constitution and variability levels of the Argentinean germplasm ...
    • The genome of the stress-tolerant wild tomato species Solanum pennellii 

      Bolger, Anthony; Scossa, Federico; Bolger, Marie E.; Lanz, Christa; Maumus, Florian; Tohge, Takayuki; Quesneville, Hadi; Alseekh, Saleh; Sørensen, Iben; Lichtenstein, Gabriel; Fich, Eric A.; Conte, Mariana; Keller, Heike; Schneeberger, Korbinian; Schwacke, Rainer; Ofner, Itai; Vrebalov, Julia; Xu, Yimin; Osorio, Sonia; Aflitos, Saulo Alves; Schijlen, Elio; Jiménez-Goméz, José M.; Ryngajllo, Malgorzata; Kimura, Seisuke; Kumar, Ravi; Koenig, Daniel; Headland, Lauren R.; Maloof, Julin N.; Sinha, Neelima; van Ham, Roeland C. H. J.; Lankhorst, René Klein; Mao, Linyong; Vogel, Alexander; Arsova, Borjana; Panstruga, Ralph; Fei, Zhangjun; Rose, Jocelyn K. C.; Zamir, Dani; Carrari, Fernando; Giovannoni, James J.; Weigel, Detlef; Usadel, Björn; Fernie, Alisdair R. (Nature Publishing Group, 2014-09)
      Solanum pennellii is a wild tomato species endemic to Andean regions in South America, where it has evolved to thrive in arid habitats. Because of its extreme stress tolerance and unusual morphology, it is an important ...