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UF/IFAS Citrus Research and Education Center

UF/IFAS Citrus Research and Education Center

Publications - Dr. Choaa El-Mohtar


Refereed Papers

Killiny, N., Harper, S.J., El Mohtar, C., and Dawson W.O. 2016. Minor coat and heat-shock proteins are involved in binding of citrus tristeza virus to the foregut of its aphid vector, Toxoptera citricida. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. AEM.01914-16Accepted manuscript postedonline 12 August 2016, doi:10.1128/AEM.01914-16 https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01914-16

Atallah O.O,  Kang S.H.,  El-Mohtar C. A.,  Shilts T., Bergua M., Folimonova, S.Y. 2016. A 5’-proximal region of the Citrus tristeza virus genome encoding two leader proteases is involved in virus superinfection exclusion Virology 489 108–115 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2015.12.008

Bergua, M., Zwart, M.P., El-Mohtar, C., Shilts, T., Elena, S.F., and Folimonova, S.Y. 2014. A viral protein mediates superinfection exclusion at the whole-organism level but is not required for exclusion at the cellular level. Journal of Virology 88, 11327–11338. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01612-14

Hajeri, S., Killiny, N., El-Mohtar, C., Dawson, W.O., Gowda, S. 2014. Citrus tristeza virus-based RNAi in citrus plants induces gene silencing in Diaphorina citri, a phloem-sap sucking insect vector of citrus greening disease (Huanglongbing). Journal of Biotechnology 176, 42-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.02.010

El-Mohtar, C. and Dawson, W.O. 2014.Exploring the limits of vector construction based on Citrus tristeza virus. Virology, 448, 274-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2013.10.017

Ambrós, S., El-Mohtar, C., Ruiz-Ruiz, S., Peña, L., Guerri, J., Dawson, W.O., and Moreno, P., 2011. Agroinoculation of Citrus tristeza virus causes systemic infection and symptoms in the presumed nonhost Nicotiana benthamianaMPMI 24, 1119-1131. https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-05-11-0110

Dakhil, H.A., Abou-Fakhr, H.E., El-Mohtar C., and Abou-Jawdah, Y., 2011. Survey of leafhopper species in almond orchards infected with almond witches’-broom phytoplasma in Lebanon. Journal of Insect Science 11:60 available online: insectscience.org/11.60 https://doi.org/10.1673/031.011.6001

Atamian, H., Dagher, R., Gerges, E., Sobh, H., Talhouk, R., El Mohtar, C., and Abou-Jawdah, Y., 2009. Breeding for a Lebanese type of tomato with combined resistance to Tomato yellow leaf curl virus, fusarium and verticillium wilts using marker assisted selection tools. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Tomato Diseases: Acta Horticulturae 808, 151-156. https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2009.808.22

El-Mohtar, C., Atamian, H., Dagher, R., Abou-Jawdah, Y., Salus, M., and Maxwell, D., 2007Marker assisted selection of tomato genotypes with I2 gene of resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersiciPlant Disease 91, 758-762. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-91-6-0758

Abou-Jawdah, Y., El Mohtar, C., Atamian, H., and. Sobh, H. 2006. First report of Tomato chlorosis virus in Lebanon. Plant Disease 90, 378. https://doi.org/10.1094/PD-90-0378C

Abou-Jawdah, Y., El Mohtar, C., and. Sobh, H. 2006. First Report of Tomato
spotted wilt virus on tomatoes in Lebanon. Plant Disease 90, 376. https://doi.org/10.1094/PD-90-0376A

Eid, S., Abou-Jawdah, Y., El-Mohtar, C., Sobh, H. and Havey, M. 2006. Tolerance in Cucumber to Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus. Plant disease 90, 645-649. https://doi.org/10.1094/PD-90-0645

Abou-Jawdah Y., AKarakashian , H. Dakhil, S. El-Mohtar, and Lee I.M. 2003. Almond witches’ broom phytoplasma, an epidemic disease in Lebanon. Phytopathology 93: S2. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS.2002.86.5.477

Abou -Jawdah, Y., Dakhil, H., El-Mohtar, C. and Lee, I.M. 2003. Almond witches’- broom phytoplasma, a potential threat to almond, peach and nectarine. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology 25, 28-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/07060660309507046

Proceedings and Abstracts (in International Conferences)

Eid S., Hourani H., El-Mohtar C., Sobh H., Havey M. and Abou-Jawdah Y. 2008. Screening cucumber accessions for resistance to CYSDV and preliminary studies on the mechanisms of virus tolerance. Abstract book of the 14 symposium: Frontiers in Agriculture – Abiotic and Biotic Stress in Plants, November 3-7, 2008, Amman, Jordan.

Eid, S., Abou-Jawdah, Y., El-Mohtar, C., Sobh, H., and Havey, M. 2006. Screening cucumber accessions for resistance to Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus. Proceedings of the 12th Mediterranean Phytopathological Congress, Rhodes Island, Greece 10-15 June 2006. Page 115.

El-Mohtar C. A., Abou-Jawdah Y. A., Atamian, H. S., Salus M. S. and Maxwell D. P. 2006. A PCR method to detect tomato genotypes with the I-2 gene for resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici race 2. Phytopathology 96:S32

El-Mohtar C., Atamian H., Dagher R., and Abou-Jawdah Y. 2005. A PCR based method for screening tomato lines for resistance to race2 of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. Proceeding of the XV meeting of the Eucarpia Tomato Working Group, Bari, Italy, September 20-23, 2005.