With the objective of developing a suitable methodology for the sacha inchi (Plukenetia vo/ubilis L.) somatic embryogenic induction, explants of immature leaf of 25-26 mm were used, two study were evaluated, the first one consisted of the evaluation of the synchronization of the induction time, using 05 treatments with different concentrations of thidiazurón (0.000, 0.003, 0.005, 0.008, 0.010 mg/I), with base culture media of the mineral compounds M&S (1962) supplemented with Vit DKW, 2.0 mg/I 2,4-0, 2.0 g/I phytagel; the same media for the second study 12 treatments witch different cornbinations of two factors [citoquinina (thidiazurón) - times of induction] were evaluated. For the development of the somatic embryogenesis process and especially for the second study (MICE) three means of culture where used, media of induction of embryogenic callus, media of secondary growth of callus (...

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The combined infection of the root knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita and two Fusarium species led to high plant mortality of inka nut (Plukenetia volubilis) seedlings in pots after 80 days growth in two independent inoculation experiments. Inoculation of M. incognita juveniles and conidia of F. solani or F. verticillioides, simultaneously, increased plant mortality by 25-30%, compared with M. incognita alone (5-10% mortality). When inoculated with F. verticillioides at 20 days post nematode inoculation, plant mortality increased to 55%. Either of the Fusarium spp. alone caused some plant mortality, but less than when combined with M. incognita. The synergistic interaction of M. incognita and especially F. verticillioides demonstrates a lethal outcome for inka nuts. It appears that M. incognita creates favorable conditions that lead to enhanced effect and damage by the Fusarium species,...

Con el propósito de inducir callo embriogénico en sacha inchi (Plukenetia volubilis L.), se estudió el efecto de cinco concentraciones hormonales de thidiazurón bajo tres diferentes periodos de inducción en hojas inmaduras de sacha inchi. El empleo de 0,005 mg/L de thidiazurón bajo siete días a condiciones de oscuridad generó callo embriogénico que garantiza la diferenciación del primer estadío globular. Asimismo se manifestó callo no embriogénico de consistencia cremosa, cristalina, delgada e irregular. La rizogénesis como producto de la organogénesis indirecta en hojas inmaduras fue una de las más importantes observaciones durante el trabajo de investigación.

The National Institute for Agrarian Innovation (INIA) in Perú, among countless projects, maintains the Peruvian National Cucurbita spp. germplasm bank representing the remarkable Cucurbita spp. diversity in Perú. Prior to this project, the INIA Cucurbita collection covered much of the southern Perú Cucurbita spp. diversity but was lacking Cucurbita spp. samples from northern Perú. Therefore, the Fulbright Program funded this project to investigate and inventory the disappearing diversity of Cucurbita moschata and Cucurbita ficifolia in the Department of Amazonas, Perú. The collection focused on three landraces that belong to two different species (Table 1). The two C. moschata landraces are known in the Amazonas region as loche and cushé, whilst the C. ficifolia landrace is commonly known as chiclayo. Loche has a higher economic value and culinary influence, whilst cushé has a gre...

El objetivo de este trabajo fue optimizar la germinación de semillas botánicas en condiciones in vitro y establecer un medio de cultivo que nos permita la multiplicación y enraizamiento de plántulas a partir de segmentos nodales. La metodología comprendió la desinfección de las semillas botánicas in vitro, para lo cual fueron sumergidas en alcohol 70% durante 60 segundos y enjuagadas 3 veces con agua destilada estéril, luego fueron sumergidas en NaOCl 1.5% durante 10 y 15 minutos por cada tratamiento y enjuagadas 3 veces con agua destilada estéril. Los segmentos nodales obtenidos de las plantas que germinaron a partir de semillas botánicas en condiciones in vitro fueron sub cultivadas en medio de cultivo MS suplementado con diferentes concentraciones de reguladores de crecimiento: BAP (0.5, 1 y 2 mg.L-1) y ANA (0, 0.1 y 0.25 mg.L-1). Los resultados muestran que las semillas bo...

El objetivo de este trabajo fue optimizar la germinación de semillas botánicas en condiciones in vitro y establecer un medio de cultivo que nos permita la multiplicación y enraizamiento de plántulas a partir de segmentos nodales. La metodología comprendió la desinfección de las semillas botánicas in vitro, para lo cual fueron sumergidas en alcohol 70% durante 60 segundos y enjuagadas 3 veces con agua destilada estéril, luego fueron sumergidas en NaOCl 1.5% durante 10 y 15 minutos por cada tratamiento y enjuagadas 3 veces con agua destilada estéril. Los segmentos nodales obtenidos de las plantas que germinaron a partir de semillas botánicas en condiciones in vitro fueron sub cultivadas en medio de cultivo MS suplementado con diferentes concentraciones de reguladores de crecimiento: BAP (0.5, 1 y 2 mg.L-1) y ANA (0, 0.1 y 0.25 mg.L-1). Los resultados muestran que las semillas bo...

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Between 2011–2013, yellow rust unleashed one of the most important phytosanitary crises in the coffee sector in Peru, causing a negative impact on the rural family economy. One of the factors associated with the intensification of the disease was the predominance of susceptible cultivars in agricultural systems. Faced with the need to rehabilitate the coffee park with new cultivars, the National Institute for Agrarian Innovation (INIA) has managed the installation of basic coffee germplasm for the development of the yellow rust resistance program, which is made up of 169 introductions from the departments of Pasco, Junín, Huánuco, Ucayali, Cajamarca, and Amazonas and obtained from 2015. The objective of the study was to evaluate the incidence and severity of epidemic conditions in the field and characterize the components of horizontal resistance, using the method of inoculations of ...

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A new arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus was found in agricultural field sites in the Amazonia lowlands of the Department San Martin, Perú. It was found up to 858 m above sea level in two plantations of the inka nut (also called ‚sacha inchi', Plukenetia volubilis), which was grown in mixed cultures together with Musa sp., Zea mays, Phaseolus vulgaris and Carica papaya. The fungus was propagated in bait cultures in a greenhouse on Sorghum sp., Brachiaria sp., Medicago sativa and Plukenetia volubilis as host plants. The fungus differentiates orange brown to dark orange brown, triple-layered spores, 93-151× 90-148 µm in diameter, terminally on funnel-shaped to rarely cylindrical or slightly inflating hyphae, and a strong, straight to slightly recurved septum that closes the spore pore at the spore base. Phylogenetically, the new fungus represents clearly a new genus in a separated clade, n...

El uso de mutágenos químicos es una herramienta muy utilizada para la generación de nuevas variantes genéticas en diversos cultivos agrícolas. Se evaluó el uso Ethyl Methanesulphonate (EMS) en semillas de Plukenetia volubilis L. para determinar la concentración óptima de EMS que redujera la germinación y/o emergencia de las semillas hasta un 50.0%, y evaluar las alteraciones morfológicas y fisiológicas en plántulas de P. volubilis durante la primera generación. Se empleó un DCA simple con diferentes dosis (0.0%, 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.5%, 2.0% y 3.0%) de EMS en un solo tiempo de exposición (30 hrs.), más un control absoluto (semillas sin tratamiento), para evaluar la sensibilidad mutagénica de P. volubilis L.., considerando parámetros como porcentaje de emergencia, altura de planta, pérdida de dominancia apical, clorosis y deformación de las hojas. Los resultados mostraron que...

Thirteen new species are formally described: Cortinarius brunneocarpus from Pakistan, C. lilacinoarmillatus from India, Curvularia khuzestanica on Atriplex lentiformis from Iran, Gloeocantharellus neoechinosporus from China, Laboulbenia bernaliana on species of Apenes, Apristus, and Philophuga (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Nicaragua and Panama, L. oioveliicola on Oiovelia machadoi (Hemiptera, Veliidae) from Brazil, L. termiticola on Macrotermes subhyalinus (Blattodea, Termitidae) from the DR Congo, Pluteus cutefractus from Slovenia, Rhizoglomus variabile from Peru, Russula phloginea from China, Stagonosporopsis flacciduvarum on Vitis vinifera from Italy, Strobilomyces huangshanensis from China, Uromyces klotzschianus on Rumex dentatus subsp. klotzschianus from Pakistan. The following new records are reported: Alternaria calendulae on Calendula officinalis from India; A. tenuissima on appl...

A new arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus was found in an agricultural plantation of Plukenetia volubilis, the inka nut (also called “sacha inchi” or “inka peanut”) in the Amazonia region of San Martín State in Peru. In this site, the inka nut was grown in mixed cultures together with Zea mays and Phaseolus vulgaris. The fungus was propagated in bait and single-species cultures on Sorghum vulgare, Brachiaria brizantha, Medicago sativa, and Plukenetia volubilis as host plants. The fungus differentiates hyaline spores terminally or intercalary on cylindrical to slightly funnel-shaped hyphae, singly or in spore clusters with up to ca. 90 spores per cluster. The spores are bi-layered, (20–)25–36(–45) μm in diameter and show regularly a visible septum at the spore base, despite the small spore and tiny hyphae sizes. Phylogenetically, the new fungus represents a new genus in a separa...

A new fungal species of the Glomeromycetes, Acaulospora aspera, was isolated from the rhizosphere of the inka nut (Plukenetia volubilis) in San Martín State of Peru (Western Amazonia) and propagated in bait cultures on Sorghum spp., Brachiaria brizantha, Medicago sativa and P. volubilis as host plants. The fungus forms brownish yellow to yellow brown spores, (120-)135-195 × (120-)130 187 μm in diameter. The surface of the structural spore wall layer is crowded with small depressions, 0.4-0.7 μm in diameter, up to 0.8 μm deep, and only 1.1-1.8 apart, giving the spore surface a rough, washboardlike appearance, especially when the outermost, evanescent wall layer has disappeared. Phylogenetically, the new species is close to A. spinosissima, A. excavata and to other morphologically more similar species such as A. spinosa and A. tuberculata, which form spiny or tuberculate projections o...

The domestic South American camelid Vicugna pacos L. is distributed along Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina. Here, we contribute to the bioinformatics and evolutionary systematics of the Camelidae by performing high-throughput sequencing analysis on the black Huacaya breed of V. pacos from Puno, Peru. The black Huacaya breed mitogenome is 16,664 base pairs (bp) in length and contains 37 genes (GenBank accession MT044302). The mitogenome shares a high-level of gene synteny to other Camelidae (Camelops, Camelus, Lama, and Vicugna). The mitogenome of the black Huacaya breed of V. pacos situates it in a clade with V. vicugna Molina, sister to Lama. We anticipate that further mitogenome sequencing of different breeds from Vicugna pacos will improve our understanding of the evolutionary history of this taxon.

Here, we report the first complete chloroplast (cp) genome of Cinchona officinalis. This cp genome has a 156,984 bp in length with typical quadripartite structure, containing a large single copy (LSC) region (83,929 bp) and an 18,051 bp small single-copy (SSC) region, separated by two inverted repeat (IR) regions (27,502 bp). The total GC content was 37.75%. Quina tree chloroplast genome possesses 135 genes that consisted of 89 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA, eight rRNA, and one pseudogene. Phylogenetic analysis showed that C. officinalis is sister to C. pubescens and sister to them is Isertia laevis; all belong to the Cinchonoideae sub-family.

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is one of the most important economic crops worldwide. The propagation of elite varieties of cocoa has been achieved through somatic embryogenesis, but still one of the main limitations is the low rates of embryo formation, which is a genotype-dependent trait. Manipulation of transcription factors (TFs) such as BABY BOOM (BBM) promotes the transition of cocoa somatic cells from the vegetative to the embryonic state. This work validated the use of clonal cocoa leaves cv. IMC-67 to induce somatic embryogenesis, overcoming their recalcitrant limitation with the help of the introduction of TF-BBM from Arabidopsis thaliana (AtBBM). The vectors were constructed by the Gateway system using the donor vector pENTR/D-TOPO and the expression vector pk7WG2. The overexpression vector pk7WG2:AtBBM was obtained, allowing successful transformation into Agrobacterium tumefacien...

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Cacao is an economically important crop that is currently planted in Asia, Africa, and America. Cuttings is a technique of vegetative propagation suitable for the conservation of selected desirable characteristics in cacao trees. The objective of this study was to evaluate the rooting of cacao cuttings in mini-tunnels with different doses of indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) to obtain a simple and viable vegetative propagation protocol. The experiment was carried out under a completely randomized design (CRD). Cuttings 5 to 7 cm long were collected from the middle area of cacao tree crowns and treated with doses of 0, 1000, 2000, and 3000 ppm of IBA; then they were placed in Jiffy© pellets and set to root in plastic-covered mini-tunnels with fog irrigation. The results indicate that treatments with 0 and 1000 ppm of IBA produced the highest values in survival (100%, both treatments) and...