[EN] Blood oranges require low temperature for anthocyanin production. We have investigated the activation of anthocyanin biosynthesis and accumulation in the pulp of Moro blood and Pera blond oranges (Citrus sinensis L. ...
Alquézar-García, Berta; Linhares Volpe, Haroldo Xavier; Magnani, Rodrigo Facchini; de Miranda, Marcelo Pedreira; Santos, Mateus Almeida; Wulff, Nelson Arno; Simoes Bento, Jose Mauricio; Postali Parra, Jose Roberto; Bouwmeester, Harro; Peña, Leandro(Nature Publishing Group, 2017)
[EN] Production of citrus, the main fruit tree crop worldwide, is severely threatened by Huanglongbing (HLB), for which as yet a cure is not available. Spread of this bacterial disease in America and Asia is intimately ...
[EN] Huanglongbing (HLB), formerly known as greening, is a bacterial disease restricted to some Asian and African regions until two decades ago. Nowadays, associated bacteria and their vectors have spread to almost all ...
[EN] Anthocyanins are pigments present in blood oranges which can be enriched by post-harvest cold storage. Additionally, citrus fruits contain appreciable levels of other flavonoids, whose content increases under postharvest ...
Alquézar-García, Berta; Linhares Volpe, Haroldo Xavier; Facchini Magnani, Rodrigo; Pedreira de Miranda, Marcelo; Almeida Santos, Mateus; Vieira Marques, Viviani; Rodrigues de Almeida, Márcia; Arno Wulff, Nelson; Ting, Hieng-Ming; de Vries, Michel; Schuurink, Robert; Bouwmeester, Harro; Peña, Leandro(Frontiers Media SA, 2021-03-02)
[EN] Huanglongbing (HLB) is a destructive disease, associated with psyllid-transmitted phloem-restricted pathogenic bacteria, which is seriously endangering citriculture worldwide. It affects all citrus species and cultivars ...
Alquézar-García, Berta; Bennici, Stefania; Carmona, Lourdes; Gentile, Alessandra; Peña, Leandro(Frontiers Media SA, 2022-03-15)
[EN] To recover transgenic citrus plants in the most efficient manner, the use of selection marker genes is essential. In this work, it was shown that the mutated forms of the acetolactate synthase (ALS) gene in combination ...
[EN] Citrus fruits are characterized by a complex mixture of volatiles making up their characteristic aromas, being the D-limonene the most abundant one. However, its role on citrus fruit and juice odor is controversial. ...
[EN] Numerous studies have revealed the remarkable health-promoting activities of citrus fruits, all of them related to the accumulation of bioactive compounds, including vitamins and phytonutrients. Anthocyanins are ...
[EN] Novel, suitable and sustainable alternative control tactics that have the potential to reduce migration of Diaphorina citri into commercial citrus orchards are essential to improve management of huanglongbing (HLB). ...
[EN] A protein analysis in the pulp of Moro blood oranges (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) at the onset and after 30 days of storage at either 4 or 9 degrees C was performed. All differential proteins belonged to different ...
Alves, Monica N.; Lopes, Silvio A.; Raiol-Junior, Laudecir L.; Wulff, Nelson A.; Girardi, Eduardo A.; Ollitrault, Patrick; PEÑA GARCIA, LEANDRO(Frontiers Media SA, 2021-01-08)
[EN] Huanglongbing (HLB) is the most destructive, yet incurable disease of citrus. Finding sources of genetic resistance to HLB-associated 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' (Las) becomes strategic to warrant crop ...
Peris, Josep Enric; Malara, Tatiane Maria; Borges, Roberta; Falconi, Jose Ricardo; Peña, Leandro; Fedriani, José María(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2019-09)
[EN] Introduction: Little is known concerning novel interactions between species that typically interact in their native range but, as a consequence of human activity, are also interacting out of their original distribution ...
Miranda, Marcelo P.; Fitches, Elaine C.; Sukiran, Nur Afiqah; Eduardo, Wellington I.; Garcia, Rafael B.; Jaciani, Fabrício J.; Readshaw, Jennifer J.; Bell, Jack; PEÑA GARCIA, LEANDRO(Elsevier, 2024-02-23)
[EN] The Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), is a key vector of the phloem -limited bacteria Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas) associated with huanglongbing (HLB), the most serious ...
Rodríguez, Ana; Shimada, Takehiko; Cervera, Magdalena; Alquézar, Berta; Gadea Vacas, José; Gómez-Cadenas, Aurelio; De Ollas, Carlos José; Rodrigo, María Jesús; Zacarías, Lorenzo; PEÑA GARCIA, LEANDRO(American Society of Plant Biologists, 2014-01)
Terpenoid volatiles are isoprene compounds that are emitted by plants to communicate with the environment. In addition to their function in repelling herbivores and attracting carnivorous predators in green tissues, the ...