• Genetic response of Paspalum plicatulum to genome duplication 

      Weihmüller, Emilse; Beltrán, Celina; Sartor, María Esperanza; Espinoza, Francisco; Spampinato, Claudia; Pessino, Silvina Claudia (Springer International Publishing, 2014-05-25)
      Paspalum plicatulum is a perennial rhizomatous grass with natural diploid and polyploid cytotypes. In this study, we investigated the occurrence of sequence polymorphisms arising immediately after genome autoduplication ...
    • Harnessing apomictic reproduction in grasses : what we have learned from paspalum 

      Ortíz, Juan Pablo Amelio; Quarin, Camilo Luis; Pessino, Silvina Claudia; Acuña, Carlos Alberto; Martínez, Eric Javier; Espinoza, Francisco; Hojsgaard, Diego Hernán; Sartor, María Esperanza; Cáceres, María Emilia; Pupilli, Fulvio (Oxford University Press, 2013-09)
      Background: Apomixis is an alternative route of plant reproduction that produces individuals genetically identical to the mother plant through seeds. Apomixis is desirable in agriculture, because it guarantees the perpetuation ...
    • Hybridity and autopolyploidy increase the expressivity of apospory in diploid paspalum rufum 

      Delgado, Luciana; Sartor, María Esperanza; Espinoza, Francisco; Soliman, Mariano; Galdeano, Florencia; Ortíz, Juan Pablo Amelio (Springer Wien, 2016)
      Paspalum rufum Nees is a perennial grass that forms a multiploid complex. Natural populations are composed mainly of diploid (2n = 2x = 20) and tetraploid (2n = 4x = 40) cytotypes. The diploid form is sexual and highly ...
    • Registration of ‘Boyero UNNE’ Bahiagrass 

      Urbani, Mario Hugo; Acuña, Carlos Alberto; Doval, D. W.; Sartor, María Esperanza; Galdeano, Florencia; Blount, A. R.; Quesenberry, K. H.; Mackowiak, Cheryl L.; Quarin, Camilo Luis (Crop Science Society of America, 2017-01)
      ‘Boyero UNNE’ (Reg. No. CV-5, PI 676021) bahiagrass (Paspalum notatum Flüggé) was registered with the National Register of Plant Cultivars and the National Register of Property for Plant Cultivars, Ministry of Agriculture, ...
    • Relative DNA content in diploid, polyploid, and multiploid species of Paspalum (Poaceae) with relation to reproductive mode and taxonomy 

      Galdeano, Florencia; Urbani, Mario Hugo; Sartor, María Esperanza; Honfi, Ana Isabel; Espinoza, Francisco; Quarin, Camilo Luis (Springer, 2016-03-10)
      It is generally accepted that polyploids have downsized basic genomes rather than additive values with respect to their related diploids. Changes in genome size have been reported in correlation with several biological ...
    • Los sistemas genéticos en poblaciones de complejos agámicos del género Paspalum 

      Sartor, María Esperanza (Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, 2011-03-22)
      Paspalum es uno de los géneros de gramíneas que cuenta con un gran número de especies distribuidas naturalmente en las regiones cálidas del continente americano. El género se caracteriza por presentar especies diploides de ...
    • Transference of eheat expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeats to paspalum species and cross-species amplification of paspalum notatum simple sequence repeats : potential use in phylogenetic analysis and mapping 

      Siena, Lorena Adelina; Sartor, María Esperanza; Quarin, Camilo Luis; Espinoza, Francisco; Ortíz, Juan Pablo Amelio (Crop Science Society of America, 2014-11-12)
      The genus Paspalum L. includes numerous species of agronomic importance. The objectives of this work were to evaluate the transferability and polymorphism of publicly available wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) expressed sequence ...