Áreas de especialización

Genética y Virología

Perfil

Biología celular y molecular.

Genética molecular.

Virología molecular, con énfasis en virus de plantas y  virus de aves.

Tesis en curso que dirige

Publicaciones seleccionadas

Publicaciones seleccionadas:

Díaz, M., Maxwell, D. P., Karkashian, J. P. & Ramírez, P. 2001. Calopogonium golden mosaic virus identified in Phaseolus vulgaris from western and northern regions of Costa Rica.  Plant Disease 86(2): 188.

 

Karkashian, J. P., Maxwell, D. P. & Ramírez, P. 2002. Squash yellow mottle geminivirus: a new cucurbit-infecting geminivirus from Costa Rica. Phytopathology 92 (6): 125.

 

Maxwell, D. P., Nakhla, M. K., Maxwell, M. D., Ramírez, P., Karkashian, J. P., Doyle de Roca, M. M., Roye, M., McLaughlin, W., Faria, J. C. 2002. Diversity of begomoviruses and their management in Latin America. Phytopathology 92(6): 127.

 

Ramírez, P., Chicas, M., Salas, J., Maxwell, D. & Karkashian, J. 2004. Identification of a new begomovirus in melons (Cucumis melo) in the state of Lara, Venezuela. Manejo Integrado de Plagas y Agroecología 72: 22.

 

Nakhla, M. K., Sorensen, A., Mejía, L., Ramírez, P., Karkashian, J. P., and Maxwell, D. P. 2005. Molecular characterization of tomato-infecting begomoviruses in and development of DNA-based detection methods. Acta Horticulturae 695: 277.

 

Karkashian, J., Ramos-Reynoso, E., Maxwell, D. P. and Ramírez, P. 2010. Begomoviruses associated with bean golden mosaic disease in Nicaragua. Plant Disease 95(8): 901.

 

Hernández, E., Mora-Umaña, F., Albertazzi, F., Karkashian, J. and Ramírez, P. 2011. Comparative analysis of three different total nucleic acid extraction protocols for the diagnosis of geminiviruses in squash (Cucurbita moschata). Journal of Phytopathology 160(1): 19.