Erandi Vargas‐Ortiz

Transcriptomic analysis of grain amaranth (Amaranthus hypochondriacus) using 454 pyrosequencing: comparison with A. tuberculatus, expression profiling in stems and in response to biotic and abiotic stress

John P. Délano-Frier, Hamlet Avilés‐Arnaut, Kena Casarrubias-Castillo et al. · BMC Genomics · 2011 · 108 citations · Full text

Grain Amaranths Are Defoliation Tolerant Crop Species Capable of Utilizing Stem and Root Carbohydrate Reserves to Sustain Vegetative and Reproductive Growth after Leaf Loss

Erandi Vargas‐Ortiz, Eduardo Espítia-Rangel, Axel Tiessen et al. · PLoS ONE · 2013 · 44 citations · Full text

Total Defoliation, Engineering, Crop Enhancement +15

Potato tuber herbivory increases resistance to aboveground lepidopteran herbivores

Pavan Kumar, Erandi Vargas‐Ortiz, Etzel Garrido et al. · Oecologia · 2016 · 38 citations

Biology, Plant-insect Interaction, Natural Sciences +6

Biomass, chlorophyll fluorescence, and osmoregulation traits let differentiation of wild and cultivated Amaranthus under water stress

Erandi Vargas‐Ortiz, Hugo M. Ramírez‐Tobías, Jorge L. González-Escobar et al. · Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology · 2021 · 25 citations

Plant Stress, Abiotic Stress, Drought +6

The tolerance of grain amaranth (Amaranthus cruentus L.) to defoliation during vegetative growth is compromised during flowering

Erandi Vargas‐Ortiz, John P. Délano-Frier, Axel Tiessen · Plant Physiology and Biochemistry · 2015 · 14 citations

Engineering, Crop-weed Interaction, Botany +12