Publications by authors named "Paola D Fontana"
Background: Biotechnological breeding of elite sugarcane cultivars is currently limited because of the difficulty of regenerating plants by tissue culture. Here, we report that commercially elite sugarcane genotypes, which are adapted to Argentinian agro-ecological conditions, are capable of being regenerated via indirect somatic embryogenesis. Leaf rolls of five elite genotypes were cultured following two callus induction protocols using different concentrations of 2,4-D as the growth regulator.
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- Acidovorax spp. are bacteria that cause significant diseases in various plants, particularly impacting crops like sugarcane, corn, and rice.
- In Argentina, Acidovorax avenae leads to red stripe disease in sugarcane, affecting about 30% of milling stems and causing economic losses.
- A study utilized multilocus sequence typing (MLST) to explore the genetic diversity of 15 local strains of A. avenae, revealing five sequence types within a clonal complex, indicating a shared origin and providing insights into its evolutionary relationships with other Acidovorax species.
Red stripe of sugarcane in Argentina is a bacterial disease caused by Acidovorax avenae. The genome sequence from the first isolate of this bacterium in Argentina is presented here. The draft genome of the A.
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