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Genetic resistances to plant viruses and their vectors

Information about SCRI Virology
Virology Group - SCRI Plant Pathology Department - SCRI
Dundee - United Kingdom

Last database update for these data: 2006-11-28 - Data extracted on 2009-04-14 from the database.

General data

Presentation   Staff   Structures   Viruses studied   Areas of expertise and Technologies
SCRI Virology
Name: Virology Group
Name: Virology Group - SCRI Plant Pathology Department - SCRI
Type: Research unit
Head: Lesley Torrance (Leader)
Michael Taliansky (Leader)
Address: Virology group
Scottish Crop Research Institute
Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland
Postal code: DD2 5DA
City: Dundee
Country: United Kingdom
Email: ltorra@scri.ac.uk
Phone: +4413 82 56 27 31
Fax: +4413 82 56 24 26
Legal entity: No
Description: SCRI Virology group conducts research on basic mechanisms of resistance, virus-vector interactions, virus movement and virus epidemiology and diagnostics with a crop focus on potato and soft fruit (Rubus, Ribes).
Staff
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Permanent scientists:13.013.0
Permanent other than scientists:00
PhD students:1.01.0
Postdoc positions:4.04.0
Total scientists:18.018.0
Total:18.018.0
Structures
Organizations, centres or groups on which depends this group: SCRI Plant Pathology Department - SCRI
Scottish Crop Research Institute
Viruses studied
Viruses Host plants Crops Vectors
Cauliflower mosaic virus
Cucumber mosaic virus
Potato mop-top virus
Potato virus Y
Tobacco mosaic virus		 Brassicaceae
Nicotiana benthamiana
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum tuberosum		 Potato
Rapeseeds
Sweet pepper
Tobacco
Tomato		 Aphididae
Myzus persicae
Spongospora subterranea
Areas of expertise and used technologies
No: Category Description
1: Biochemistry Various protein-protein interactions technologies (yeast two hybrid; antibody IP tests )
2: Cell biology Use of fluorescent proteins in localisation and in vivo interactions studies of virus proteins
3: Experimental facilities Containment glasshouses, fields, controlled environment chambers
4: High-throughput technologies Transcriptomics, robots. Metabolomics
5: Imaging Transmission electron microscopes and confocal microscopes