Search Results - "Quiros, Carlos F."
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Survey of glucosinolate variation in leaves of Brassica rapa crops
Published in Genetic resources and crop evolution (01-10-2010)“…The breakdown products of glucosinolates (gsl) are biologically active secondary metabolites involved in plant defense and human nutrition. We identified and…”
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Genetic Analysis, Expression and Molecular Characterization of BoGSL-ELONG, a Major Gene Involved in the Aliphatic Glucosinolate Pathway of Brassica Species
Published in Genetics (Austin) (01-12-2002)“…We cloned a major aliphatic glucosinolate (GSL) gene, BoGSL-ELONG in Brassica oleracea, using the Arabidopsis sequence database. We based our work on an…”
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A physical map of Brassica oleracea shows complexity of chromosomal changes following recursive paleopolyploidizations
Published in BMC genomics (28-09-2011)“…Evolution of the Brassica species has been recursively affected by polyploidy events, and comparison to their relative, Arabidopsis thaliana, provides means to…”
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Obituary Miguel Holle (1937–2023)
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Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05-03-2019)“…Crop adaptation to climate change requires accelerated crop variety introduction accompanied by recommendations to help farmers match the best variety with…”
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User-centred design of a digital advisory service: enhancing public agricultural extension for sustainable intensification in Tanzania
Published in International journal of agricultural sustainability (02-11-2021)“…Sustainable intensification (SI) is promoted as a rural development paradigm for sub-Saharan Africa. Achieving SI requires smallholder farmers to have access…”
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Survey of aliphatic glucosinolates in Sicilian wild and cultivated Brassicaceae
Published in Phytochemistry (Oxford) (01-04-2002)“…In the frame of the activities carried out to exploit Sicilian local cultivars of brassicas, we focused our attention on some of the potential health compounds…”
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The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective
Published in Agronomy for sustainable development (2024)“…Matching crop varieties to their target use context and user preferences is a challenge faced by many plant breeding programs serving smallholder agriculture…”
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Reducing progoitrin and enriching glucoraphanin in Braasica napus seeds through silencing of the GSL-ALK gene family
Published in Plant molecular biology (01-05-2012)“…The hydrolytic products of glucosinolates in brassica crops are bioactive compounds. Some glucosinolate derivatives such as oxazolidine-2-thione from…”
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Comparative analysis of methylthioalkylmalate synthase (MAM) gene family and flanking DNA sequences in Brassica oleracea and Arabidopsis thaliana
Published in Plant cell reports (01-06-2006)“…Gene BoGSL-PRO is associated with presence of 3-carbon side-chain glucosinolates (GSL). This gene is a member of the methylthioalkylmalate synthase (MAM) gene…”
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Glucosinolate Survey of Cultivated and Feral Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum Ruíz & Pavón) in the Cuzco Region of Peru
Published in Economic botany (01-09-2006)“…Glucosinolates (GSL) present in cultivated and feral accessions of mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum Ruíz & Pavón) were identified and quantified by High…”
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Households and food security: lessons from food secure households in East Africa
Published in Agriculture & food security (04-12-2015)“…BackgroundWhat are the key factors that contribute to household-level food security? What lessons can we learn from food secure households? What agricultural…”
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Inheritance of fertility restorer gene for cytoplasmic male-sterility in B. napus and identification of closely linked molecular markers to it
Published in Euphytica (01-12-2013)“…Here we report identification and inheritance of a restorer gene for the restoration of cytoplasmic male sterility in Brassica napus. Analysis of 373 plants in…”
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MAM gene silencing leads to the induction of C3 and reduction of C4 and C5 side-chain aliphatic glucosinolates in Brassica napus
Published in Molecular breeding (01-04-2011)“…Methylthioalkylmalate (MAM) synthases and their associated genes that have been extensively investigated in Arabidopsis control the side-chain elongation of…”
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Outcrossing Rates in Annatto Determined by Sequence-Related Amplified Polymorphism
Published in Agronomy journal (01-09-2010)“…Several methodologies have been proposed to accelerate breeding programs in annatto (Bixa orellana L.). However, before implementing them it is important to…”
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Polymorphic chloroplast microsatellite markers in the octoploid Lepidium meyenii (Brassicaceae) and cross-species amplification in Lepidium
Published in American journal of botany (01-10-2010)“…Premise of the study: As a crop and medicinal plant, the octoploid Andean endemic Lepidium meyenii suffers from taxonomic uncertainty. Few molecular markers…”
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Assessing Morphological and Genetic Variation in Annatto (Bixa orellana L.) by Sequence-related Amplified Polymorphism and Cluster Analysis
Published in HortScience (01-12-2008)“…Annatto (Bixa orellana L.) is the sole source of bixin, a seed-specific red apocarotenoid pigment used worldwide. Genetic improvement of annatto has focused on…”
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Genetic variability and relationship of closely related Spanish traditional cultivars of tomato as detected by SRAP and SSR markers
Published in Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science (2005)“…We studied the genetic variability of some traditional tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L. Mill.) cultivars of Spain, and established their relationships using…”
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Comparative analysis of a Brassica BAC clone containing several major aliphatic glucosinolate genes with its corresponding Arabidopsis sequence
Published in Genome (01-08-2004)“…We compared the sequence of a 101-kb-long bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clone (B21H13) from Brassica oleracea with its homologous region in Arabidopsis…”
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Comparative analysis of a transposon-rich Brassica oleracea BAC clone with its corresponding sequence in A. thaliana
Published in Theoretical and applied genetics (01-09-2005)“…We compared the sequence of a 96.7 Kb-long BAC clone (B19N3) from Brassica oleracea (broccoli) with its corresponding regions in Arabidopsis thaliana. B19N3…”
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