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  1. The Role of Grass in the Epidemiology of a Phytoplasma Disease Affecting Trees and Other Plants of the Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia

    Article • Microorganisms, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  2. Caracterización preliminar de Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) asociados a robledales en la Reserva ProAves Reinita Cielo Azul, Santander, Colombia

    Article • Revista Conservación Colombiana, July 2024, Fundacion ProAves de Colombia

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  3. Insects as potential vectors of phytoplasmas in urban trees in a mega-city: a case study in Bogotá, Colombia

    Article • Urban Ecosystems, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  4. Simultaneous detection and quantification by multiplex qPCR of 'Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris' and 'Candidatus Phytoplasma fraxini' in a plant host and insect vectors

    Article • August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  5. Exitianus atratus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) a vector of phytoplasmas: morphometry, DNA barcode and phylogenetic relationships for nymphs and adults from Colombia

    Article • International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  6. Association of phytoplasmas with a new disease of potato crops in cundinamarca, Colombia

    Article • Crop Protection, January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  7. Epidemiological characterization of a disease associated with phytoplasmas in Andean oak,Quercus humboldtiiBonpland, in Bogotá—Colombia

    Article • Forest Pathology, February 2022, Wiley

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  8. Molecular insights on potato yellow vein crinivirus infections in the highlands of Colombia

    Article • Journal of General Virology, June 2021, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  9. Diversity of the ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris’ and ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma fraxini’ isolates that infect urban trees in Bogotá, Colombia

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, December 2020, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  10. First Report of a ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma fraxini’-Related Strain Associated with Potato in Colombia

    Article • Plant Disease, October 2020, Scientific Societies

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  11. Can Amplicephalus funzaensis Linnavuori 1968 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) transmit phytoplasmas to strawberry?

    Article • Agronomía Colombiana, April 2020, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  12. Biodiversity, Bugs, and Barcodes: The Cicadellidae Associated with Grassland and Phytoplasmas in the Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia

    Article • Florida Entomologist, January 2020, Florida Entomological Society

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  13. Epidemiological aspects of phytoplasma diseases in a tropical country

    Article • Phytopathogenic Mollicutes, January 2019, Diva Enterprises Private Limited

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  14. New phytoplasma subgroups within the 16SrI and 16SrVII groups detected in trees of Bogotá, Colombia

    Article • Phytopathogenic Mollicutes, January 2019, Diva Enterprises Private Limited

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  15. Relationship between climatic and environmental variables and the phytoplasmas detected in Quercus humboldtii in Bogotà, Colombia

    Article • Phytopathogenic Mollicutes, January 2019, Diva Enterprises Private Limited

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  16. Detection and identification of phytoplasmas associated with declining Liquidambar styraciflua trees in Colombia

    Article • July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  17. LeafhoppersExitianus atratusandAmplicephalus funzaensistransmit phytoplasmas of groups 16SrI and 16SrVII in Colombia

    Article • Plant Pathology, January 2016, Wiley

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  18. Inter and Intra Variation of Potato Yellow Vein Virus in Three Potato Species From Colombia

    Article • Revista Facultad Nacional de Agronomía Medellín, January 2015, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  19. Especies Arbóreas de las Familias Euphorbiaceae, Pittosporaceae y Salicaceae son Infectadas por ‘CA. Phytoplasma fraxini’ y ‘CA. Phytoplasma asteris’ en Infecciones Mixtas en Bogotá, Colombia

    Article • Revista Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, December 2014, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  20. Prevalence of potato yellow vein virus (PYVV) in Solanum tuberosum Group Phureja Fields in Three States of Colombia

    Article • American Journal of Potato Research, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  21. Tracking Foliar Symptoms Caused by Tuber-Borne Potato Yellow Vein Virus (PYVV) in Solanum Phureja (Juz et Buk) Cultivar “Criolla Colombia”

    Article • American Journal of Potato Research, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  22. Yield Losses in Solanum tuberosum Group Phureja Cultivar Criolla Colombia in Plants with Symptoms of PYVV in Field Trials

    Article • American Journal of Potato Research, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  23. First Report of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris’ Affecting Woody Hosts (Fraxinus uhdei, Populus nigra, Pittosporum undulatum, and Croton spp.) in Colombia

    Article • Plant Disease, September 2012, Scientific Societies

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  24. Urapan (Fraxinus udhei) dieback, a new disease associated with a phytoplasma in Colombia

    Article • Plant Pathology, August 2004, Wiley

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  25. Transformation of tobacco and potato with cDNA encoding the full-length genome of Potato leafroll virus: evidence for a novel virus distribution and host effects on virus multiplication

    Article • Journal of General Virology, November 1999, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara

  26. Article • Euphytica, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Liliana Franco-Lara