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First report of Sweet potato leaf curl virus infecting sweet potato in Argentina

Author: P. R. Pardina, A. Luque et al. Contributors: Segundo Fuentes 2012

This is a report of the complete nucleotide sequence of a begomovirus infecting sweet potato in the Northeastern region of Argentina. Sequence comparisons indicated that the isolate under study has the highest nucleotide sequence identity (93.6 %) with Sweet potato leaf curl virus Puerto Rico. According to the current taxonomic criteria for begomovirus …
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From Latin America to Oceania: the historic dispersal of sweetpotato re-examined using AFLP

Author: G. Rossel , A. Kriegner et al. Contributors: Segundo Fuentes, Karen Ayabei 1999

Although originally domesticated in tropical America, the sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) has a long cultivation history in Oceania. While the post-Columbus dispersal of sweetpotato to Asia and Oceania is well documented, the hypothesis that there was prehistoric transfer by Peruvian or Polynesian voyagers from Peru to Oceania has long …
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