Alejandra Gil-Ordóñez

New Research: An emerging Platynota sp. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) infesting blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) in the central coast of Peru frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #InsectScience

On #frogskin disease 50-year anniversary we present our work on solving this mystery. Search no more, #torradoviruses explain the symptoms on #cassava roots in the Americas. I’m very happy for this achievement @BiovIntCIAT_eng @USAID @CGIAR @WJCuellar nature.com/articles/s4159…

Disease Alert: The emergence of #cassava witches' broom #disease (#CWBD) in the Americas will require strong regional coordination to minimize its impact on food security and biodiversity @USAID @ACIARAustralia @Euphresco @BiovIntCIAT_eng @embrapa @Cirad doi.org/10.1002/ndr2.7…

VSD #cacao and #CWBD could be sibling diseases, first time observing C. theobromae growing from cacao and cassava petioles at the same time, would it be possible to have plasmogamy with each other?#CassDisseaseAsia cooperation @UPLBOfficial @BiovIntCIAT_eng

🧳¡Empieza la #COP16Colombia y soy el embajador pedagógico de este importante evento! 🙋‍♀️🙋Levanta la mano si vamos a vernos en la COP16 o si vas a ver y escuchar las transmisiones de @RadNalCo y @SenalColombia en #COP16EnRTVC.

Isolation, genome analysis and tissue localization of Ceratobasidium theobromae, a new encounter pathogen of cassava in Southeast Asia @OrdoGil @JMPardo86 @SamarSheat @Khamla99 @Analeiva013 @WarrenArinaitwe @StephanWinter11 @jononewby @WJCuellar nature.com/articles/s4159…

In 2022 @BiovIntCIAT_eng dreamt of creating a lab in #Laos 🇱🇦 to serve as a #platform for #regional #training & capacity sharing on plant pest & disease. Super proud of the team & grateful for the support of all who made this a reality! @CGIAR @ACIARAustralia @USAID #CATAS #NAFRI

@BiovIntCIAT_eng @irri @JMPardo86 @ASEAN @ACIARAustralia @CassDiseaseAsia @jononewby @ImranMalikWA @OrdoGil @PestDisPlace @NurmiPangesti @Khamla99 Last day of workshop. Teams from PNG, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, succesfully isolated #Ceratobasidium from #cassava with Witches Broom Disease. #planthealth #plantdisease @irri @BiovIntCIAT_eng

@BiovIntCIAT_eng @irri @JMPardo86 @ASEAN @ACIARAustralia @CassDiseaseAsia @jononewby @ImranMalikWA @OrdoGil @PestDisPlace @NurmiPangesti By the end of day 3, the participants learned everything about Ceratobasidium theobromae isolated from diseased #cassava plants and started DNA extraction from mycelliu @ASEAN @irri @BiovIntCIAT_eng

@BiovIntCIAT_eng @irri @JMPardo86 @ASEAN @ACIARAustralia @CassDiseaseAsia @jononewby @ImranMalikWA @OrdoGil @PestDisPlace End of day 1. Participants get familiar with "the witch" in the field accompanied by the @BiovIntCIAT_eng team. Back in the lab they learn about phenotyping #fallarmyworm with instructors from @irri #planthealth @ASEAN

@BiovIntCIAT_eng @irri Right on time. @JMPardo86 and Dr. Nurmi Pangesti, welcoming participants from Southeast Asia for a week of exchanging information on transboundary pests & diseases #planthealth @ASEAN @ACIARAustralia #CMDinSEA

📢 The Alliance and @irri are hosting a regional workshop on transboundary pests and diseases in #Laos to foster sustainable and resilient cassava and rice farming systems across #ASEAN. Discover more about the event and its agenda. alliancebioversityciat.org/events/regiona…

🧵¿Sabías que los estudios genéticos en comunidades indígenas sudamericanas no sólo son esenciales para entender su compleja historia demográfica, sino que también son claves para preservar su cultura e identidad y proteger la biodiversidad?#HilandoCiencia2024

Isolation, genome analysis and tissue localization of Ceratobasidium theobromae, a new encounter pathogen of cassava in Southeast Asia @OrdoGil @JMPardo86 @SamarSheat @Khamla99 @Analeiva013 @WarrenArinaitwe @StephanWinter11 @jononewby @WJCuellar nature.com/articles/s4159…

Very happy to share with you the results of this collaborative work on #Cassava witches’ broom disease @ACIARAustralia @USAID @BiovIntCIAT_eng @OrdoGil @JMPardo86 @SamarSheat @Khamla99 @Analeiva013 @WarrenArinaitwe @StephanWinter11 @jononewby @WJCuellar nature.com/articles/s4159…

New findings in the fight against #Cassava Witches Broom #Disease. @ACIARAustralia @USAID @CGIARgenetic @BiovIntCIAT_eng @Leibniz_DSMZ_en @OrdoGil @JMPardo86 @SamarSheat @Khamla99 @Analeiva013 @WarreArinaitwe @StephanWinter11 @jononewby @WJCuellar nature.com/articles/s4159…

This week the Cassava Crop Protection Team from @BiovIntCIAT_eng has been collaborating with FREDON French Guiana in the identification of #cassava diseases, as part of the recent phytosanitary alert in the region. france24.com/es/minuto-a-mi…

First genome of Ceratobasidium theobromae isolated from cassava (LAO1 🇱🇦), associated with #cassava witches' broom #disease in Southeast Asia. It is now the reference genome for the species at NCBI. The article is coming soon 👀 @BiovIntCIAT_eng @ACIARAustralia @CassDiseaseAsia

Isolation, bioassays, sequencing and genome analysis of #phytopathogens causing root rot in #cassava...first time testing #promethION from @nanopore at @BiovIntCIAT_eng @USAID @ACIARAustralia @JMPardo86 @Analeiva013 @dianalopez430