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Cesar Escalante

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

Mid career · publishing since 2005Rising activity

Publications

27

Citations

176

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

22

Publishing since 2005

Research summary
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Cesar Escalante studies plant viruses and their interactions with crop hosts, with particular focus on cotton, bell pepper, and taro plants. His work combines molecular biology techniques (like transcriptome and genome sequencing) with field studies to understand how viruses infect, spread through, and affect these crops, as well as the insects that transmit them. This research has practical relevance for managing plant diseases that affect agricultural production.

Plant virus biology and transmissionCotton disease management (Cotton Leafroll Dwarf Virus)Endornaviruses in bell pepper and other plantsInsect-vectored plant pathogens (aphid viromes)Plant pathogen diagnostics and field surveillance

Publication output has fluctuated over the past decade with no clear long-term trend, though activity has picked up somewhat in 2024-2025 after a quieter period in the early 2020s.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.6/year recently
172018: 3 publications182019: 5 publications5192020: 1 publication202021: 2 publications212022: 1 publication222023: 2 publications232024: 5 publications5242025: 4 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Plant Disease×4
  • PhytoFrontiers™×3
  • Frontiers in Plant Science×2
  • European Journal of Plant Pathology×2
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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