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    Current Research on Andean Fruit Crop Diseases
    (Springer International Publishing, 2020)
    Erika Benítez
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    William Viera
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    First Report of <i>Pantoea ananatis</i> Causing Leaf Spot Disease of Maize in Ecuador
    (Scientific Societies, 2021-10-01)
    A. Toaza
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    R. B. Caiza
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    A. D. Garrido
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    C. R. Moreno
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    J. Guevara
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    First report of tomato spotted wilt virus infecting Chrysanthemum in Ecuador
    (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018-02-20)
    Yeturu Sivaprasad
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    Karla Mendez
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    Silvia Pachacama
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    Ana Garrido
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    First Report of Strawberry Wilt Caused by <i>Fusarium oxysporum</i> in Ecuador
    (Scientific Societies, 2020-05)
    J. Guevara
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    A. Toaza
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    A. D. Garrido
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    D. A. Jarrin
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    L. A. Ramos
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    Exploratory Monitoring of the Quality and Authenticity of Commercial Honey in Ecuador
    (MDPI AG, 2019-03-20)
    Lorena Salvador
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    Michelle Guijarro
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    Daniela Rubio
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    Bolívar Aucatoma
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    Tanya Guillén
    <jats:p>Honey is one of the oldest sweetening foods and has economic importance, making this product attractive to adulteration with cheap sugars. This can cause a critical problem in the honey industry and a possible health risk. The present work has the aim of evaluating the authenticity of honey commercialized in two different provinces of Ecuador (Pichincha and Loja) by performing physicochemical and spectroscopic analyses. For this study 25 samples were collected from different places and markets and characterized by water, sucrose, reducing sugars and electric conductivity measurement. Also, their Raman and Infrared (IR) spectra were recorded and analysed using a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in order to verify the quality of the honeys. In addition, a screening of several pesticides was performed in order to verify possible chemical threats to human health and honey bees. It was found that 8 samples have a deviation from the Standard established parameters. Two of them have a high difference in the content of sucrose and reducing sugars, which are located deviated from all the other samples in the PCA of the applied vibrational spectroscopy (IR/Raman), shaping two clear clusters. The results show that Raman and IR spectroscopy is appropriate techniques for the quality control of honey and correlates well with the physicochemical analyses.</jats:p>
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    First Report of Pectobacterium brasiliense Causing Banana Soft Rot in Ecuador
    (Scientific Societies, 2024-02-01)
    A. Toaza
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    R. Caiza
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    F. J. Garrido
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    L. A. Ramos
    Banana (Musa spp.) is the most economically important crop in Ecuador, with exports representing 35% of the agricultural GDP of the country. It covers 230,000 ha, mostly concentrated in three coastal provinces, Guayas, Los Ríos, and El Oro. Between July and September 2022, disease symptomatic banana cultivar Williams plants were observed in commercial plantations located in two parishes in the province of Guayas (Naranjito and Lorenzo de Garaicoa) and one parish in the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas (La Concordia), with an incidence that ranged from 5 to 15%. Symptoms included soft rot of the pseudostem and rhizome decay, characterized by a fetid odor. Three symptomatic pseudostems from each location were collected, washed with running water to remove any debris, and dried with absorbent paper. From the lesion of each pseudostem, seven pieces of 2 cm2 were taken, surface sterilized, and macerated in 9 ml of sterile peptone water (0.1% w/v). The macerate was diluted threefold in sterile water, plated on nutrient agar, and incubated at 30°C for 24 h. Eight randomly picked colonies, with convex elevation and creamy white color, were isolated on nutrient agar. Each of the bacterial isolates was biochemically profiled by the Biolog system (Biolog, U.S.A.) and identified as Pectobacterium. Three isolates, one from each parish (FP220416, FP220694, and FP220904), were selected for testing Koch’s postulates and further identification. Sequences from fragments of the 16S, dnaA, gapA, and gyrB genes were obtained from these isolates, following the protocols used by Dobhal et al. (2020) and Boluk et al. (2020), showing 98.1 to 99.0%, 98.2%, 99.7 to 99.8%, and 98.4 to 98.9% identity, respectively, with sequences from the Pectobacterium brasiliense type strain LMG_21371 (accession no. JQOE00000000). The obtained sequences were deposited in GenBank with the following accession numbers: OR392417, OR371545, OR371546, OR727281, OR727282, and OR739074 to OR739080. Using BEAST version 1.10.4 (Suchard et al. 2018), a Bayesian multilocus phylogenetic tree was built with multiple sequence alignments of dnaA, gapA, and gyrB from 22 P. brasiliense isolates and two P. aquaticum isolates used as outgroup. The phylogenetic analysis showed that the Ecuadorian isolates cluster with P. brasiliense BF20 isolated from Opuntia ficus-indica in Mexico and are closely related with the type strain. Pathogenicity tests were conducted through syringe infiltration with 1 ml of 1 × 108 CFU/ml bacterial suspension. Each of the three characterized isolates were inoculated into the pseudostems of five healthy 4-month-old banana plants of the cultivar Williams. Negative control plants were infiltrated with sterile distilled water. The plants were incubated at 25°C and 74% relative humidity. Black lesions started to appear 11 days after inoculation, and 5 weeks after inoculation plants showed clear symptoms of soft rot of the pseudostem, including fetid odor associated with plant tissue decomposition. The control plants remained symptom-free. Bacteria were reisolated only from symptomatic pseudostems and identified as P. brasiliense with the specific primers Pb1F and Pb1R.
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    Identification and characterization of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) for population studies of Puccinia novopanici
    (Elsevier BV, 2017-08)
    Gabriela K. Orquera-Tornakian
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    Brent Kronmiller
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    Robert Hunger
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    Brett M. Tyler
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    Complete Genome Sequence of
    <i>Lily Symptomless Virus</i>
    , Isolated from
    <i>Alstroemeria</i>
    Plants in Ecuador
    (American Society for Microbiology, 2019-06-27) ; ;
    Fiama Guevara
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    Roberto Granda
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    Kenneth M. Stedman
    <jats:p> In this work, we present the complete genome sequence of <jats:named-content content-type="genus-species">Lily symptomless virus</jats:named-content> isolated from <jats:named-content content-type="genus-species">Alstroemeria</jats:named-content> plants. The genome is 8,391-bp long, arranged into six open reading frames (ORFs), with a 5′-untranslated region (5′-UTR) of 55 nucleotides (nt) and a 3′-UTR of 48 nt. </jats:p>
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    Survey of clenbuterol in bovine muscle and liver in Ecuador
    (Informa UK Limited, 2020-03-09)
    Wania Espinoza
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    Paul Vargas Jentzsch
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    Fernando Gualpa
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    Paulette Andrade
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    Carla Moreno
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