• An Unwanted Association: The Threat to Papaya Crops by a Novel Potexvirus in Northwest Argentina 

      Cabrera Mederos, Dariel; Debat, Humberto Julio; Torres, Carolina; Portal, Orelvis; Jaramillo Zapata, Margarita; Trucco, Veronica Milagros; Flores, Ceferino Rene; Ortiz, Claudio Manuel; Badaracco, Alejandra; Acuña, Luis Eduardo; Nome Docampo, Claudia; Quito-Avila, Diego; Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Castellanos Collazo, Onias; Sánchez-Rodríguez, Aminael; Giolitti, Fabian (MDPI, 2022-10-19)
      An emerging virus isolated from papaya (Carica papaya) crops in northwestern (NW) Argentina was sequenced and characterized using next-generation sequencing. The resulting genome is 6667-nt long and encodes five open reading ...
    • Cucumber mosaic virus infecting ‘Cavendish’ banana in Argentina 

      Cabrera Mederos, Dariel; Jaramillo Zapata, Margarita; Villarreal Filipovich, José; Nome Docampo, Claudia; Torres, Carolina; Portal, Orelvis; Giolitti, Fabian (Springer, 2018-12)
      Banana plants (Musa sp.) showing severe mosaic symptoms in leaves were observed in Laguna Naineck, Formosa, Argentina. Electron microscopy observations of leaf dip preparations revealed isometric particles ca. 30 nm in ...
    • Distribution and phylodynamics of papaya ringspot virus on Carica papaya in Cuba 

      Cabrera Mederos, Dariel; Giolitti, Fabian; Torres, Carolina; Portal, Orelvis (Wiley; British Society for Plant Pathology, 2018-09)
      Orchard and garden papaya crops grown in 47 Cuban municipalities were surveyed from 2008 to 2013, revealing the widespread distribution of papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) in Cuba. Phylodynamic analyses performed with the ...
    • Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Northwestern Argentina 

      Zambrana Montaño, Romina; Culasso, Andrés Carlos Alberto; Fernandez, Franco Daniel; Marquez, Nathalie; Debat, Humberto Julio; Salmerón, Mariana; Zamora, Ana María; Ruíz de Huidobro, Gustavo; Costas, Dardo; Alabarse, Graciela; Charre, Miguel Alejandro; Fridman, Ariel David; Mamani, Claudia; Vaca, Fabiana; Maza Diaz, Claudia; Raskovsky, Viviana; Lavaque, Esteban; Lesser, Veronica; Cajal, Pamela; Agüero, Fernanda; Calvente, Cintia; Torres, Carolina; Viegas, Mariana (Elsevier, 2022-09-28)
      Studies about the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in different backgrounds such as naive populations are still scarce, especially from South America. This work aimed to study the introduction and diversification pattern ...
    • Phylodynamics of sunflower chlorotic mottle virus, an emerging pathosystem 

      Cabrera Mederos, Dariel; Torres, Carolina; Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Trucco, Veronica Milagros; Lenardon, Sergio Luis; Leiva Mora, Michel; Giolitti, Fabian (Elsevier, 2020-03-12)
      Distribution and epidemiological patterns of sunflower chlorotic mottle virus (SCMoV) in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) growing areas in Argentina were studied from 2006 to 2017. The virus was detected exclusively in ...