Research Project: Conservation, Management and Distribution of Citrus and Date Genetic Resources and Associated Information

Location: National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Citrus

Publications (Clicking on the reprint icon will take you to the publication reprint.)

Analysis of ‘Marrakesh Limetta’ (Citrus x limetta Risso) horticultural history and relationships with limes and lemons - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

“An improved reference gene for detection of “Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus” associated with citrus huanglongbing” - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Keremane, M.L., Ramadugu, C., Mccollum, T.G., Roose, M.L., Lee, R.F. 2021. “An improved reference gene for detection of “Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus” associated with citrus huanglongbing”. Plants. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10102111.

Date Palm Pollen: Features, Production, Extraction and Pollination Methods - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Salomon-Torres, R., Krueger, R., Garcia-Vazquez, J., Villa-Angulo, R., Villa-Angulo, C., Ruiz-Ortiz, N., Samaniego-Sandoval, L. 2021. Date Palm Pollen: Features, Production, Extraction and Pollination Methods. Agronomy. 11(3). Article 504. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11030504.

Use of young plants for biological indexing of citrus graft transmissible pathogens - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Lee, R., Keremane, M.L., Ramadugu, C. 2021. Use of young plants for biological indexing of citrus graft transmissible pathogens. Crop Protection Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2020.105524.

Study and detection of citrus viroids in woody plants - (Book / Chapter)

Determination of actual evapotranspiration and crop coeffients of California date palms using the residual of energy balance approach - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Montazar, A., Krueger, R., Corwin, D.L., Pourreza, A., Little, C., Rios, S., Snyder, R.L. 2020. Determination of actual evapotranspiration and crop coeffients of California date palms using the residual of energy balance approach. Water. 12(8). Article 2253. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/8/2253.

Effect of four pollinating sources on nutritional properties if ‘Medjool’ date (Phoenix dactylifera L.) seeds - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Salomon-Torres, R., Sol-Uribe, J., Valdez-Salas, B., Garcia-Gonzalez, C., Krueger, R., Hernandez-Balbuena, D., Norzagaray-Plascenci, S., Garcia-Vazquez, J., Ortiz-Uribe, N. 2020. Effect of four pollinating sources on nutritional properties if ‘Medjool’ date (Phoenix dactylifera L.) seeds. Agriculture 2020, 10 (45). https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10020045.

Date Palm Biology and Utilization - (Book / Chapter)
Krueger R.R. 2021. Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) biology and utilization. In: Al-Khayri J.M., Jain S.M., Johnson D.V., editors. The Date Palm Genome, Vol. 1. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. p. 3-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73746-7_1_1.

Genome-wide association mapping of date palm fruit traits - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Hazzouri, K.M., Gros-Balthazard, M., Flowers, J.M., Copetti, D., Lemansour, A., Lebrun, M., Masmoudi, K., Ferrand, S., Dhar, M.I., Fresquez, S., Roas, U., Zhang, J., Talag, J., Lee, S., Kudrna, D., Powell, R.F., Leitch, I.J., Krueger, R., Wing, R., Amiri, K.M., Purugganan, M.D. 2019. Genome-wide association mapping of date palm fruit traits. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12604-9.

Metabolome and microbiome signatures in the roots of citrus affected by Huanglongbing - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Padhi, E.M., Maharaj, N., Lin, S., Mishchuk, D.O., Chin, E., Godfrey, K., Foster, E., Polek, M., Leveau, J.H., Slupsky, C. 2019. Metabolome and microbiome signatures in the roots of citrus affected by Huanglongbing. Phytopathology, 109 (12). https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-03-19-0103-R.

Novel subpopulations in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) identified by population-wide organellar genome sequencing - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Mahamoud, Y.A., Mathew, L.S., Torres, M.F., Younuskunju, S., Krueger, R., Suhre, K., Malek, J. 2019. Novel subpopulations in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) identified by population-wide organellar genome sequencing. BMC Genomics. 20:498. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-5834-7.

The so-called “leaf fleck” virus diseases of citrus - (Trade Journal)
Krueger, R. 2019. The so-called “leaf fleck” virus diseases of citrus. Subtropics newsletter. 19 Spring pages 5-11.

Nutritional Assessment, Phytochemical Composition and Antioxidant Analysis of the Pulp and Seed of Medjool Date Grown in Me´xico - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Salomon-Torres, R., Ortiz-Uribe, N., Valdez-Salas, B., Rosas-Gonzalez, N., Garcia-Gonzalez, C., Chavez, D., Cordova-Guerreo, I., Diaz-Rubio, L., Haro-Vazquez, M., Mijangos-Montiel, J., Morales-Maza, A., Mahadevan, P., Krueger, R. 2019. Nutritional Assessment, Phytochemical Composition and Antioxidant Analysis of the Pulp and Seed of Medjool Date Grown in Me´xico. PeerJ. 7. Article e6821. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6821.

Date palm status and perspective in Mexico - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Ortiz-Uribe, N., Salmon-Torres, R., Krueger, R. 2019. Date palm status and perspective in Mexico. Agriculture. 9(3):46. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture9030046.

In-grove spatio-temporal spread of citrus huanglongbing and its psyllid vector in relation to rain - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Shimwela, M.M., Halbert, S.E., Keremane, M.L., Mears, P., Singer, B.H., Lee, W.S., Jones, J.B., Ploetz, R.C., Van Bruggen, A.H. 2019. In-grove spatio-temporal spread of citrus huanglongbing and its psyllid vector in relation to rain. Journal of Phytopathology. 109(3):418-427. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-03-18-0089-R.

Phoenix phylogency, genetic diversity, distribution and population structure characterized in a world collection of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) and its wild relatives - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Chaludavi, S.R., Young, P., Thompson, K., Barhi, B.A., Gajera, B., Naryanan, S., Krueger, R., Bennetzen, J.L. 2018. Phoenix phylogency, genetic diversity, distribution and population structure characterized in a world collection of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) and its wild relatives. Plant Diversity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2018.11.005.