• Identification of smut resistance in wild arachis species and its introgression into peanut elite lines 

      De Blas, Francisco J.; Bressano, Marina; Teich, Ingrid; Balzarini, Mónica; Arias, Reneé; Manifesto, Maria Marcela; Costero, Beatriz P.; Oddino, Claudio; Soave, Sara J.; Soave, Juan A.; Buteler, Mario I.; Massa, Alicia N.; Seijo, José Guillermo (Crop Science Society of America, 2019-05-16)
      Peanut smut caused by Thecaphora frezii Carranza & Lindquist has been an issue for farmers and the peanut industry (Arachis hypogaea L.) in Argentina since the mid-1990s. This disease causes pod malformation due to hypertrophy ...
    • Mapping QTL for resistance to new virulent races of wheat stripe rust from two Argentinean wheat cultivars 

      Cobo, Nicolás; Pfluger, Laura Alicia; Chen, Xianming; Dubcovsky, Jorge (Crop Science Society of America, 2018)
      During the last two decades, new virulent and aggressive races of Puccinia striiformis Westend. f. sp. tritici (Pst) have spread worldwide, causing devastating epidemics and prompting the search for new sources of resistance ...