Broom's Barn Applied Crop Sciences
Virology
Dr Mark Stevens
Research Group Leader
Objectives
- To precisely target control measures against virus yellows via improved forecasting methods.
- To develop alternative strategies to control virus yellows.
- To develop specific diagnostics to detect the viruses and their strains in plants and aphids.
- To understand the molecular and biological interactions within the virus-plant-vector complexes.
Main Research Projects
- Aphid monitoring and infectivity studies to "fine tune" the virus yellows forecasting and Spray Warning Schemes.
- Virus variability and its implications for resistant varieties.
- Resistance to yellowing viruses.
- Virus-vector-plant interactions.
