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Roberto Ruiz-Medrano
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Open AccessMetagenomic Analysis of Rhizospheric Bacterial Community of Citrus Trees Expressing Phloem-Directed Antimicrobials
Huanglongbing, also known as citrus greening, is currently the most devastating citrus disease with limited success in prevention and mitigation. A promising strategy for Huanglongbing control is the use of an...
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Open AccessBacillus Strains as Effective Biocontrol Agents Against Phytopathogenic Bacteria and Promoters of Plant Growth
Modern crop production relies on the application of chemical pesticides and fertilizers causing environmental and economic challenges. In response, less environmentally impactful alternatives have emerged such...
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Detection of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) in solanaceous plants in Mexico
Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) is a novel tobamovirus initially reported in Jordan and Israel, and, more recently, in Europe, China, the USA and México, which causes severe symptoms in tomato and pepper...
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The cereal phytopathogen Sporisorium reilianum is able to infect the non-natural host Arabidopsis thaliana
We analyzed the infection of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana by the basidiomycete phytopathogen of cereals Sporisorium reilianum in order to use it as an experimental pathosystem model. Sterile plantlets of
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Structure-Function Relationship of TCTP
The translationally controlled tumor protein (TCTP) is a small, multifunctional protein found in most, if not all, eukaryotic lineages, involved in a myriad of key regulatory processes. Among these, the contro...
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Bioinformatic analysis of Arabidopsis reverse transcriptases with a zinc-finger domain
Plants, as most eukaryotic organisms, harbor several genes encoding a reverse transcriptase domain. The majority of them are part of transposable elements (TEs) and/or retroviral genomes that have been inserte...
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Resistance to stem rust Ug99 in six bread wheat cultivars maps to chromosome 6DS
Identified SSR markers ( Xcfd49 and Xbarc183 ) linked with stem rust resistance for efficient use in marker-assisted se...
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Signaling and Phloem-Mobile Transcripts
Numerous studies revealed that beside viral RNAs also plant endogenous RNAs are transported from source tissue towards apical tissues in plants. Surprisingly a high number of distinct transcripts including pro...
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Open AccessGeminivirus mixed infection on pepper plants: Synergistic interaction between PHYVV and PepGMV
PHYVV and PepGMV are plant viruses reported in Mexico and Southern US as causal agents of an important pepper disease known as "rizado amarillo". Mixed infections with PHYVV and PepGMV have been reported in se...
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Phylogenetic and Structural Analysis of Translationally Controlled Tumor Proteins
The translationally controlled tumor protein (TCTP) is conserved in all eukaryotes studied thus far. Recent evidence points to an important role for TCTP in the induction of cell proliferation in animals throu...
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One-step Purification and Immobilization in Cellulose of the GroEL Apical Domain Fused to a Carbohydrate-binding Module and its use in Protein Refolding
The apical domain of the chaperonin, GroEL, fused to the carbohydrate binding module type II, CBDCex, of Cellulomonas fimi, was expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant protein, soluble or from inclusion bo...
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Leonotis nepetaefolia: An important plant virus reservoir in central Mexico
The presence of viruses in the weedLeonotis nepetaefolia in central México is reported from two field surveys.L. nepetaefolia, with viral-like symptoms such as mosaic, leaf deformation and calico, was observed gr...
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Efficient Transformation of Cellulomonas flavigena by Electroporation and Conjugation with Bacillus thuringiensis
The conjugative self-transmissible plasmid pHT73, harbored in Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki, was demonstrated to be transferred to Cellulomonas flavigena, a cellulolytic bacterium. Both conjugation and tra...
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Nucleotide sequence of an osmotin-like cDNA induced in tomato during viroid infection
A cDNA library from tomato planta macho viroid (TPMV)-infected tomato was constructed. The library was screened at low stringency with a tobacco PR-R cDNA probe. An 832 bp cDNA from a mRNA present only in infe...
