APS Virology Committee

FREE for APS members. Come and join us in this upcoming webinar, where we will get career advice of two plant virologists at different career stages.

This fall, I am teaching a special topic graduate course on vector-borne plant pathosystems, and today we had the amazing @VectorBioSpace as an invited speaker to talk about her exicitint ongoing projects and efforts to control 🍊 greening

Three virologists got APS awards/recognitions during the award ceremony today in the #planthealth2025 @VectorBioSpace @ytzanet Scott Harper

Today, with the @VirologyAPS, I led a field trip in #planthealth2025 where attendees learn about tropical plant production and their pests and diseases. Thanks much to the @uhmanoa personnel who guided the tour !

Hey—that’s us! Spotted across the street from the Hawai‘i Convention Center. Check out the new mural by local artist @paintescapewithme celebrating plant health and welcoming all #PlantHealth2025 attendees! 🌺🌱 Swing by, snap a pic, and tag it with #PlantHealth2025!

Last week, #VIRTIGATION partner @LIST_Luxembourg organised a webinar on the impact of #ClimateChange on the ability of #whiteflies to transmit #PlantViruses. Read the recap of the webinar now on our website: virtigation.eu/recap-of-virti… #H2020 #EUFunded #PlantHealth #PlantScience

I'm happy to be part of the great work on viral identification in grapevine trunk disease-associated fungal communities, just published in Virology led by @nicobejerman and @humbertodebat . This research could improve disease management strategies. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Do not forget to register and attend this free webinar for APS members. The webinar will be from 2:30 through 3:30 PM (Central)

Read the article led by @MWestOrtiz about a new 🦠 in cotton, which is also integrated in its genome and those of related allotetraploid Gossypium species. @VectorBioSpace

While investigating cotton leafroll dwarf virus in Mississippi, @MWestOrtiz et al. identified a novel virus, cotton virus A (CotVA), in Gossypium plants. @HeckLab_USDA Learn more: doi.org/10.1094/PBIOME…

Last chance to register for our upcoming event! Don't miss our May 15 webinar on safeguarding U.S. agriculture. Learn from industry leaders in this informative session from our Virology – Then & Now series. bit.ly/4lYBGNk #PlantPathology #Agriculture #APSWebinar

This Thursday, we will host another chapter of the “Virology then & now” werbinar series with the topic “Safeguarding U.S. Agriculture: Intergenerational Perspectives on Clean Plant Systems and Virus Management”. apsnet.org/edcenter/resou…

Ioannis Tzanetakis, plant virology prof in Dept of Entomology & #PlantPathology, & director of Arkansas Clean Plant Center, named Fellow of American Phytopathological Society; only 0.25% of APS membership is awarded t.ly/yv9_t #PlantScience #AgFoodLife

Easy read on characterization of soybean vein necrosis virus (SVNV) proteins. SVNV is a thrips transmitted virus disease of soybean which causes angular lesions on infected soybean leaves. It does not appear to be economically important at this time @CropNetwork #Soybean #Virus

Endogenous viral elements are targeted by RNA silencing pathways in #banana Duroy et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Interesting virus symptoms in cucurbits grown in a very very micro scale in Iowa

A late post but thanks to all that came to the Virology committee networking hour at the #PlantHealth2024 and brainstormed topics for the upcoming Plant Health 2025, in Hawaii!! @ytzanet @DrJennyWilson @AOV_OlmedoVelar @SierramAndrea @danteswanou @thienoxon

Plant pathology and plant-microbe biology doctoral candidate Brandon Roy studies grapevine fanleaf virus and the protein-specific interactions between the virus and host that make a plant show symptoms of infection. Read his student spotlight: gradschool.cornell.edu/spotlights/stu… @CornellCALS