Publications by authors named "Francisco Mosquera-Yuqui"

Babaco is a fast-growing herbaceous shrub with great commercial potential because of the organoleptic properties of its fruit. Babaco mosaic virus (BabMV) is a potexvirus in the family affecting babaco in all the provinces that produce this crop in Ecuador. BabMV was recently described but it has been affecting babaco for decades and, since many potexviruses are serologically indistinguishable, it may have been previously misidentified as papaya mosaic virus.

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Given the highly contagious nature of SARS-CoV-2, it has resulted in an unprecedented number of COVID-19 infected and dead people worldwide. Since there is currently no vaccine available in the market, the identification of potential drugs is urgently needed to control the pandemic. In this study, 92 phytochemicals from medicinal plants growing in the Andean region were screened against SARS-CoV-2 3 C-like protease (3CLpro) and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) in their active sites through molecular docking.

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The original version of this article unfortunately contained an error in the length of AIMV genome sequence.

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Even though alstroemeria mosaic virus (AlMV) is one of the most important viruses affecting alstroemeria plants, its genome is only partially available in public sequence databases. High throughput sequencing (HTS) of RNA from alstroemeria plants with symptoms of mosaic and streaking, collected in Lasso-Ecuador, indicated the presence of AlMV and lily symptomless virus. In this study, we aimed to assemble and characterize the complete genome sequence of AlMV.

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