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August 28, 2023
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Carrot populations in France and Spain host a complex virome rich in previously uncharacterized viruses

Publicated to: PLOS ONE. 18 (8 August): e0290108- - 2023-08-16 18(8 August), DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290108

Authors:

Schönegger, D; Marais, A; Babalola, BM; Faure, C; Lefebvre, M; Svanella-Dumas, L; Brázdová, S; Candresse, T
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Czech Acad Sci, Inst Plant Mol Biol, Biol Ctr, Dept Plant Virol, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic - Author
ETSI Agron Alimentaria & Biosistemas, Campus Montegancedo, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Bordeaux, INRAE, UMR 1332 Biol Fruit & Pathol, Villenave Dornon, France - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid UPM, Ctr Biotecnol & Genom Plantas CBGP, Campus Montegancedo, Madrid, Spain - Author
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author
Universite de Bordeaux - Author
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Abstract

High-throughput sequencing (HTS) has proven a powerful tool to uncover the virome of cultivated and wild plants and offers the opportunity to study virus movements across the agroecological interface. The carrot model consisting of cultivated (Daucus carota ssp. sativus) and wild carrot (Daucus carota ssp. carota) populations, is particularly interesting with respect to comparisons of virus communities due to the low genetic barrier to virus flow since both population types belong to the same plant species. Using a highly purified double-stranded RNA-based HTS approach, we analyzed on a large scale the virome of 45 carrot populations including cultivated, wild and off-type carrots (carrots growing within the field and likely representing hybrids between cultivated and wild carrots) in France and six additional carrot populations from central Spain. Globally, we identified a very rich virome comprising 45 viruses of which 25 are novel or tentatively novel. Most of the identified novel viruses showed preferential associations with wild carrots, either occurring exclusively in wild populations or infecting only a small proportion of cultivated populations, indicating the role of wild carrots as reservoir of viral diversity. The carrot virome proved particularly rich in viruses involved in complex mutual interdependencies for aphid transmission such as poleroviruses, umbraviruses and associated satellites, which can be the basis for further investigations of synergistic or antagonistic virus-vector-host relationships.
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Keywords

alignmentbiodiversitydiseaseplantsproteinrnasequencetransmissionvitivirusAnthriscus strainDaucus carotaFranceSpainVirome

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal PLOS ONE due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position 32/134, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Multidisciplinary Sciences.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.83. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 1.39 (source consulted: FECYT Mar 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2026-04-11, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 10
  • Scopus: 10
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-11:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 7.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 7 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 11.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 15 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Czech Republic; France.

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