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54
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Best Publications

  • Micro-scale vegetable production and the rise of microgreens

    Marios C. Kyriacou;Youssef Rouphael;Francesco Di Gioia;Angelos Kyratzis

  • A survey of nitrate and oxalate content in fresh vegetables

    Pietro Santamaria;Antonio Elia;Francesco Serio;Enzo Todaro

  • Biodegradable Superabsorbent Hydrogel IncreasesWater Retention Properties of Growing Media and Plant Growth

    Francesco F. Montesano;Angelo Parente;Pietro Santamaria;Alessandro Sannino

  • Small RNAs containing the pathogenic determinant of a chloroplast‐replicating viroid guide the degradation of a host mRNA as predicted by RNA silencing

    Beatriz Navarro;Andreas Gisel;Maria Elena Rodio;Sonia Delgado

  • Taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales: update 2018

    Piet Maes;Sergey V. Alkhovsky;Yīmíng Bào;Martin Beer

  • Current status of viroid taxonomy.

    F. Di Serio;R. Flores;J. Th. J. Verhoeven;S.-F. Li

  • Nitrogen nutrition, yield and quality of spinach

    A Elia;P Santamaria;F Serio

  • RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase 6 Delays Accumulation and Precludes Meristem Invasion of a Viroid That Replicates in the Nucleus

    Francesco Di Serio;Angel-Emilio Martínez de Alba;Beatriz Navarro;Andreas Gisel

  • Deep sequencing of viroid-derived small RNAs from grapevine provides new insights on the role of RNA silencing in plant-viroid interaction

    Beatriz Navarro;Vitantonio Pantaleo;Andreas Gisel;Simon Moxon

  • Physicochemical, agronomical and microbiological evaluation of alternative growing media for the production of rapini (Brassica rapa L.) microgreens.

    Francesco Di Gioia;Francesco Di Gioia;Palmira De Bellis;Carlo Mininni;Pietro Santamaria

  • WAYS OF REDUCING ROCKET SALAD NITRATE CONTENT

    P. Santamaria;M. Gonnella;A. Elia;A. Parente

  • 2021 Taxonomic update of phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales.

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  • Fertilization strategies for lowering nitrate content in leafy vegetables: chicory and rocket salad cases

    P. Santamaria;A. Elia;A. Parente;F. Serio

  • Peach latent mosaic viroid variants inducing peach calico (extreme chlorosis) contain a characteristic insertion that is responsible for this symptomatology

    Monica Malfitano;Francesco Di Serio;Laura Covelli;Antonio Ragozzino

  • A Viroid RNA with a Specific Structural Motif Inhibits Chloroplast Development

    Maria-Elena Rodio;Sonia Delgado;Angelo De Stradis;María-Dolores Gómez

  • Update of the Scientific Opinion on the risks to plant health posed by Xylella fastidiosa in the EU territory.

    Claude Bragard;Katharina Dehnen‐Schmutz;Francesco Di Serio

  • Viroids: how to infect a host and cause disease without encoding proteins.

    Beatriz Navarro;Andreas Gisel;Maria-Elena Rodio;Sonia Delgado

  • Specific Argonautes Selectively Bind Small RNAs Derived from Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid and Attenuate Viroid Accumulation In Vivo

    Sofia Minoia;Alberto Carbonell;Francesco Di Serio;Andreas Gisel

  • EFFECT OF SOLUTION NITROGEN CONCENTRATION ON YIELD, LEAF ELEMENT CONTENT, AND WATER AND NITROGEN USE EFFICIENCY OF THREE HYDROPONICALLY-GROWN ROCKET SALAD GENOTYPES

    Pietro Santamaria;Antonio Elia;Francesco Serio

  • Influence of rootstock on vegetative growth, fruit yield and quality in ‘Cuore di Bue’, an heirloom tomato

    F. Di Gioia;F. Serio;D. Buttaro;O. Ayala

  • Identification and characterization of a novel geminivirus with a monopartite genome infecting apple trees.

    Pengbo Liang;Beatriz Navarro;Zhixiang Zhang;Hongqing Wang

  • The first phlebo-like virus infecting plants: a case study on the adaptation of negative-stranded RNA viruses to new hosts.

    Beatriz Navarro;Maria Minutolo;Angelo De Stradis;Francesco Palmisano

  • Pest categorisation of Spodoptera litura.

    Claude Bragard;Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz;Francesco Di Serio

  • A Negative-Stranded RNA Virus Infecting Citrus Trees: The Second Member of a New Genus Within the Order Bunyavirales .

    Beatriz Navarro;Stefania Zicca;Maria Minutolo;Maria Saponari

  • Effectiveness of in planta control measures for Xylella fastidiosa.

    Claude Bragard;Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz;Francesco Di Serio

  • Commodity risk assessment of black pine (Pinus thunbergii Parl.) bonsai from Japan.

    Claude Bragard;Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz;Francesco Di Serio

  • A single polyprobe for detecting simultaneously eight pospiviroids infecting ornamentals and vegetables.

    Enza Maria Torchetti;Beatriz Navarro;Francesco Di Serio

  • Reassessing species demarcation criteria in viroid taxonomy by pairwise identity matrices

    Michela Chiumenti;Beatriz Navarro;Thierry Candresse;Ricardo Flores

  • Watermelon crinkle leaf-associated virus 1 and watermelon crinkle leaf-associated virus 2 have a bipartite genome with molecular signatures typical of the members of the genus Coguvirus (family Phenuiviridae)

    Song Zhang;Xin Tian;Beatriz Navarro;Francesco Di Serio

  • Viroid Diseases in Pome and Stone Fruit Trees and Koch's Postulates: A Critical Assessment.

    Francesco Di Serio;Silvia Ambrós;Teruo Sano;Ricardo Flores

  • Viroids: molecular implements for dissecting RNA trafficking in plants.

    Francesco Di Serio;Ricardo Flores

  • Pest categorisation of the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex.

    Claude Bragard;Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz;Francesco Di Serio

  • Cytopathic Effects Incited by Viroid RNAs and Putative Underlying Mechanisms.

    Francesco Di Serio;Angelo De Stradis;Sonia Delgado;Ricardo Flores

  • Identification and characterization of privet leaf blotch-associated virus, a novel idaeovirus.

    Beatriz Navarro;Giuliana Loconsole;Annalisa Giampetruzzi;Nina Aboughanem-Sabanadzovic

  • Pest categorisation of Colletotrichum fructicola.

    Claude Bragard;Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz;Francesco Di Serio

  • Identification and Characterization of Citrus Concave Gum-Associated Virus Infecting Citrus and Apple Trees by Serological, Molecular and High-Throughput Sequencing Approaches.

    Maria Minutolo;Maria Cinque;Michela Chiumenti;Francesco Di Serio

  • Symptomatic plant viroid infections in phytopathogenic fungi: A request for a critical reassessment.

    Pedro Serra;Alberto Carbonell;Beatriz Navarro;Selma Gago-Zachert

  • Degradome Analysis of Tomato and Nicotiana benthamiana Plants Infected with Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid.

    Beatriz Navarro;Andreas Gisel;Pedro Serra;Michela Chiumenti

  • Commodity risk assessment of Persea americana from Israel.

    Claude Bragard;Katharina Dehnen‐Schmutz;Francesco Di Serio

  • List of non‐EU viruses and viroids of Cydonia Mill., Fragaria L., Malus Mill., Prunus L., Pyrus L., Ribes L., Rubus L. and Vitis L.

    Claude Bragard;Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz;Paolo Gonthier

Frequent Co-Authors

Pietro Santamaria
Pietro Santamaria University of Bari Aldo Moro
Claude Bragard
Claude Bragard Université Catholique de Louvain
Paolo Gonthier
Paolo Gonthier University of Turin
Annemarie Fejer Justesen
Annemarie Fejer Justesen Aarhus University
Jonathan Yuen
Jonathan Yuen Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Lucia Zappalà
Lucia Zappalà University of Catania
Juan A. Navas-Cortés
Juan A. Navas-Cortés Spanish National Research Council
Wopke van der Werf
Wopke van der Werf Wageningen University & Research
Marie-Agnès Jacques
Marie-Agnès Jacques University of Angers
Ricardo Flores
Ricardo Flores Universitat Politècnica de València

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