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Jesús Navas-Castillo

Jesús Navas-Castillo

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
12730
World Ranking
16014
National Ranking
354

Overview

Jesús Navas-Castillo is affiliated with the University of Malaga in Spain and has contributed extensively to the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on Plant Science. Their research covers a range of subfields including Insect Science, Endocrinology, Molecular Biology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

The core areas of their scientific inquiry include Plant Virus Research Studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Plant and Fungal Interactions Research, Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, and Animal Virus Infections Studies.

Their publication record features multiple papers published in prominent venues such as Microorganisms, Journal of General Virology, Archives of Virology, Frontiers in Microbiology, and Plant Cell & Environment. Notable recent papers include:

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Geminiviridae 2021, published in 2021 in Journal of General Virology
  • Establishment of five new genera in the family Geminiviridae: Citlodavirus, Maldovirus, Mulcrilevirus, Opunvirus, and Topilevirus, published in 2021 in Archives of Virology
  • The Global Dimension of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Disease: Current Status and Breeding Perspectives, published in 2021 in Microorganisms
  • Begomoviruses: what is the secret(s) of their success?, published in 2023 in Trends in Plant Science
  • Molecular and Biological Characterization of a New World Mono-/Bipartite Begomovirus/Deltasatellite Complex Infecting Corchorus siliquosus, published in 2020 in Frontiers in Microbiology

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Elvira Fiallo-Olivé
  • F. Murilo Zerbini
  • Jean-Michel Lett
  • Darren P. Martin
  • Philippe Roumagnac

Best Publications

  • Emerging Virus Diseases Transmitted by Whiteflies

    Jesús Navas-Castillo;Elvira Fiallo-Olivé;Sonia Sánchez-Campos

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Geminiviridae.

    F. Murilo Zerbini;Rob W Briddon;Ali Idris;Darren P Martin

  • Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons

    Judith K. Brown;F. Murilo Zerbini;Jesús Navas-Castillo;Enrique Moriones

  • Tomato yellow leaf curl virus, an emerging virus complex causing epidemics worldwide

    E. Moriones;J. Navas-Castillo

  • A natural recombinant between the geminiviruses Tomato yellow leaf curl Sardinia virus and Tomato yellow leaf curl virus exhibits a novel pathogenic phenotype and is becoming prevalent in Spanish populations.

    Francisco Monci;Sonia Sánchez-Campos;Jesús Navas-Castillo;Enrique Moriones

  • Establishment of three new genera in the family Geminiviridae: Becurtovirus, Eragrovirus and Turncurtovirus

    Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Jesús Navas-Castillo;Enrique Moriones;Cecilia Hernández-Zepeda

  • A genome-wide pairwise-identity-based proposal for the classification of viruses in the genus Mastrevirus (family Geminiviridae)

    Brejnev Muhire;Darren P. Martin;Judith K. Brown;Jesús Navas-Castillo

  • Capulavirus and Grablovirus: two new genera in the family Geminiviridae

    Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Philippe Roumagnac;Marc Fuchs;Jesús Navas-Castillo

  • Tomato yellow leaf curl virus-is causes a novel disease of common bean and severe epidemics in tomato in Spain.

    Jesús Navas-Castillo;Sonia Sánchez-Campos;Juan Antonio Díaz;Elisa Sáez-Alonso

  • Displacement of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV)-Sr by TYLCV-Is in Tomato Epidemics in Spain.

    S. Sánchez-Campos;J. Navas-Castillo;R. Camero;C. Soria

  • Begomovirus genetic diversity in the native plant reservoir Solanum nigrum: Evidence for the presence of a new virus species of recombinant nature.

    Susana García-Andrés;Francisco Monci;Jesús Navas-Castillo;Enrique Moriones

  • An engineered closterovirus RNA replicon and analysis of heterologous terminal sequences for replication.

    T. Satyanarayana;S. Gowda;V. P. Boyko;M. R. Albiach-Marti

  • Typing of tomato yellow leaf curl viruses in Europe

    Gian Paolo Accotto;Jesús Navas-Castillo;Emanuela Noris;Enrique Moriones

  • Founder effect, plant host, and recombination shape the emergent population of begomoviruses that cause the tomato yellow leaf curl disease in the Mediterranean basin.

    Susana García-Andrés;Gian Paolo Accotto;Jesús Navas-Castillo;Enrique Moriones

  • The complete genome sequence of the major component of a mild citrus tristeza virus isolate.

    M C Vives;L Rubio;C López;J Navas-Castillo

  • Tomato yellow leaf curl viruses: ménage à trois between the virus complex, the plant and the whitefly vector

    Juan Antonio Díaz-Pendón;M. Carmen Cañizares;Enrique Moriones;Eduardo R. Bejarano

  • Severe Yellowing Outbreaks in Tomato in Spain Associated with Infections of Tomato chlorosis virus.

    J Navas-Castillo;R Camero;M Bueno;E Moriones

  • Frequent occurrence of recombinants in mixed infections of tomato yellow leaf curl disease-associated begomoviruses.

    Susana García-Andrés;Diego Miguel Tomás;Sonia Sánchez-Campos;Jesús Navas-Castillo

  • Kinetics of Accumulation of Citrus Tristeza Virus RNAs

    Jesús Navas-Castillo;María R Albiach-Martí;Siddarame Gowda;Mark E Hilf

  • Natural recombination between Tomato yellow leaf curl virus-Is and Tomato leaf curl virus.

    J. Navas-Castillo;S. Sánchez-Campos;E. Noris;D. Louro

Frequent Co-Authors

Enrique Moriones
Enrique Moriones Spanish National Research Council
Arvind Varsani
Arvind Varsani Arizona State University
F. Murilo Zerbini
F. Murilo Zerbini Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Rob W. Briddon
Rob W. Briddon National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
Darren P. Martin
Darren P. Martin University of Cape Town
Eduardo R. Bejarano
Eduardo R. Bejarano University of Malaga
William O. Dawson
William O. Dawson University of Florida
Ricardo Flores
Ricardo Flores Universitat Politècnica de València
John Colvin
John Colvin University of Greenwich
Miguel A. Aranda
Miguel A. Aranda Spanish National Research Council

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