Potential of Omics to control diseases and pests in the Coconut tree

MIGUEL ALONSO TZEC SIMA Jean Wildort Félix María Inés Granados Alegría Mónica Aparicio Ortiz Dilery Juarez Monroy Damian Mayo Sarai Vivas-Lopez Rufino Gómez-Tah Blondy Beatriz Canto Canché Maxim Berezovski Ignacio Rodrigo Islas Flores (2022, [Artículo])

The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) is a common crop in pantropical areas facing various challenges, one of them being the control of diseases and pests. Diseases such as bud rot caused by Phytophthora palmivora, lethal yellowing caused by phytoplasmas of the types 16SrIV-A, 16SrIV-D or 16SrIV-E, among others, and pests like the coconut palm weevil, Rhynchophorus vulneratus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), and the horned beetle, Oryctes rhinocerus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), are controlled by applying pesticides, pheromones and cultural control. These practices do not guarantee eradication since some causal agents have become resistant or are imbedded in infected tissues making them difficult to eradicate. This review condenses the current genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics studies which are being conducted with the aim of understanding the pathosystems associated with the coconut palm, highlighting the findings generated by omics studies that may become future targets for the control of diseases and pests in the coconut crop. © 2022 by the authors.

COCOS NUCIFERA L. OMICS PESTS INSECTS DISEASES PATHOGENS BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR DE PLANTAS BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR DE PLANTAS

Heteranthera yucatana (Pontederiaceae), una especie pequeña, hermosa, endémica …. y amenazada

GERMAN CARNEVALI FERNANDEZ CONCHA RODRIGO STEFANO DUNO Ivón Mercedes Ramírez Morillo José Ramón Grande Allende Yeni Celeste Barrios José Luis Tapia Muñoz (2022, [Artículo])

En el año 2000, personal del Herbario CICY detectó en las cercanías de la Zona Arqueológica de Xcambó, al norte del estado de Yucatán, una pequeña planta semi-acuática que llamó la atención de los colectores. Justo a finales del año 2019, unos meses antes del inicio de la pandemia, salimos nuevamente al campo y la volvimos a conseguir. Esta vez nos cuestionamos su identidad, y tras algunas semanas de búsqueda e investigación, comprobamos que se trataba de un nuevo taxón. Este año, después de muchos ires y venires, ha sido establecida como una especie nueva para la ciencia: Heteranthera yucatana. Esta especie se caracteriza entre otras cosas por su reducido tamaño, su distribución limitada al norte del estado de Yucatán y su categoría de riesgo: “En Peligro”.

COMMELINALES IUCN NOVEDAD TAXONOMICA PLANTAS ACUATICAS PENINSULA DE YUCATAN YUCATAN BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (BOTÁNICA) TAXONOMÍA VEGETAL TAXONOMÍA VEGETAL

Partial least squares enhance multi-trait genomic prediction of potato cultivars in new environments

Rodomiro Ortiz Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez Osval Antonio Montesinos-Lopez Jose Crossa (2023, [Artículo])

Potato Traits Cross-Validation Breeding Data CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA LEAST SQUARES METHOD POTATOES ENVIRONMENT PLANT BREEDING

Novel mutant alleles reveal a role of the extra-large G protein in rice grain filling, panicle architecture, plant growth, and disease resistance

Akshaya Biswal Daisuke Urano (2022, [Artículo])

Heterotrimeric G Proteins Extra-Large G Proteins Cas9 OsXLG CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA CRISPR RICE PROTEINS PLANT GROWTH DISEASE RESISTANCE

Domesticación de papaya: implicaciones en la tolerancia al cambio climático

AMARANTA GIRON RAMIREZ ARIANNA CHRISTINE CHAN LEON YESSICA BAUTISTA BAUTISTA ERICK ARROYO ALVAREZ Humberto José Estrella Maldonado Gabriela Fuentes Ortiz Jorge Manuel Santamaría Fernández (2023, [Artículo])

Mucho se ha hablado de que el proceso de domesticación de las especies comerciales trajo consigo una reducción en la talla de las plantas, un aumento en el tamaño de los frutos, cambios en el tipo sexual de las flores en algunos casos, etc. Sin embargo, poco se ha discutido la posibilidad de que, en algunas especies como en la papaya, el proceso de domesticación pudo haber traído consigo una pérdida de la tolerancia a sequía y posiblemente a otros factores climáticos, tolerancia que aún es posible encontrar en las poblaciones silvestres de esta importante especie.

CARICA PAPAYA PLANTAS SILVESTRES RESERVORIO GENETICO SEQUIA BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (BOTÁNICA) ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL

Bacterial communities in the rhizosphere at different growth stages of maize cultivated in soil under conventional and conservation agricultural practices

Yendi Navarro-Noya Bram Govaerts Nele Verhulst Luc Dendooven (2022, [Artículo])

Farmers in Mexico till soil intensively, remove crop residues for fodder and grow maize often in monoculture. Conservation agriculture (CA), including minimal tillage, crop residue retention and crop diversification, is proposed as a more sustainable alternative. In this study, we determined the effect of agricultural practices and the developing maize rhizosphere on soil bacterial communities. Bulk and maize (Zea mays L.) rhizosphere soil under conventional practices (CP) and CA were sampled during the vegetative, flowering and grain filling stage, and 16S rRNA metabarcoding was used to assess bacterial diversity and community structure. The functional diversity was inferred from the bacterial taxa using PICRUSt. Conservation agriculture positively affected taxonomic and functional diversity compared to CP. The agricultural practice was the most important factor in defining the structure of bacterial communities, even more so than rhizosphere and plant growth stage. The rhizosphere enriched fast growing copiotrophic bacteria, such as Rhizobiales, Sphingomonadales, Xanthomonadales, and Burkholderiales, while in the bulk soil of CP other copiotrophs were enriched, e.g., Halomonas and Bacillus. The bacterial community in the maize bulk soil resembled each other more than in the rhizosphere of CA and CP. The bacterial community structure, and taxonomic and functional diversity in the maize rhizosphere changed with maize development and the differences between the bulk soil and the rhizosphere were more accentuated when the plant aged. Although agricultural practices did not alter the effect of the rhizosphere on the soil bacterial communities in the flowering and grain filling stage, they did in the vegetative stage.

Community Assembly Functional Diversity Intensive Agricultural Practices Plant Microbiome CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE TILLAGE SOIL BACTERIA MAIZE

El futuro de la medicina está en tu boca: Las células madre de los dientes

ANGELICA ANAHI SERRALTA INTERIAN SOLEDAD MARIA TERESA HERNANDEZ SOTOMAYOR BEATRIZ ADRIANA RODAS JUNCO (2022, [Artículo])

En el cuerpo humano se han identificado varias fuentes de células madre; sin embargo, los dientes representan una nueva alternativa para la obtención de estas, debido a su fácil obténción, compatibilidad con biomateriales y escasos conflictos éticos; principalmente se han estudiado los tejidos de pulpa dental y ligamento periodontal, de los cuales se han logrado obtener diferentes tipos celulares que tienen el potencial de ser utilizadas para desarrollar estrategias para el tratamiento de enfermedades o la regeneración de órganos y tejidos.

CELULAS DENTALES LIGAMENTO PERIODONTAL LINAJE CELULAR PULPA DENTAL REGENERACION BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR DE PLANTAS BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR DE PLANTAS

Phylogenetic relationships of Pseudo-nitzschia subpacifica (Bacillariophyceae) from the Mexican Pacific, and its production of domoic acid in culture

Sonia Quijano (2020, [Artículo])

Pseudo-nitzschia is a cosmopolitan genus, some species of which can produce domoic acid (DA), a neurotoxin responsible for the Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning (ASP). In this study, we identified P. subpacifica for the first time in Todos Santos Bay and Manzanillo Bay, in the Mexican Pacific using SEM and molecular methods. Isolates from Todos Santos Bay were cultivated under conditions of phosphate sufficiency and deficiency at 16°C and 22°C to evaluate the production of DA. This toxin was detected in the particulate (DAp) and dissolved (DAd) fractions of the cultures during the exponential and stationary phases of growth of the cultures. The highest DA concentration was detected during the exponential phase grown in cells maintained in P-deficient medium at 16°C (1.14 ± 0.08 ng mL-1 DAd and 4.71 ± 1.11 × 10−5 ng cell-1 of DAp). In P-sufficient cultures DA was higher in cells maintained at 16°C (0.25 ± 0.05 ng mL-1 DAd and 9.41 ± 1.23 × 10−7 ng cell-1 of DAp) than in cells cultured at 22°C. Therefore, we confirm that P. subpacifica can produce DA, especially under P-limited conditions that could be associated with extraordinary oceanographic events such as the 2013–2016 "Blob" in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. This event altered local oceanographic conditions and possibly generated the presence of potential harmful species in areas with economic importance on the Mexican Pacific coast. © 2020 Quijano-Scheggia et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

domoic acid, domoic acid, kainic acid, Article, cell growth, controlled study, diatom, Mexico, morphology, nonhuman, Pacific Ocean, phylogeny, plant cell, plant growth, Pseudo nitzschia, toxin analysis, cell culture technique, classification, diatom, CIENCIAS FÍSICO MATEMÁTICAS Y CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA Y DEL ESPACIO OCEANOGRAFÍA OCEANOGRAFÍA

Associations between endogenous spike cytokinins and grain-number traits in spring wheat genotypes

Gemma Molero Carolina Rivera-Amado Matthew Paul Reynolds John Foulkes (2024, [Artículo])

Spike Cytokinins Grain Number Fruiting Efficiency Wheat Breeding CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA SPIKES CYTOKININS GRAIN FRUITING HARVEST INDEX WHEAT PLANT BREEDING

Celebrating Professor Rajeev K. Varshney's transformative research odyssey from genomics to the field on his induction as Fellow of the Royal Society

Vanika Garg Rutwik Barmukh Manish Roorkiwal Chris Ojiewo Abhishek Bohra MAHENDAR THUDI Vikas Kumar Singh Himabindu Kudapa Reyaz Mir Chellapilla Bharadwaj Xin Liu Manish Pandey (2024, [Artículo])

Agricultural Biotechnology Crop Genomics Genome Sequencing CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA BIOTECHNOLOGY CROPS GENOMICS PLANT BREEDING AGRICULTURE GENETIC IMPROVEMENT