Plant Virology
Plant Virology
Major Research Themes
- Determining the cause of virus-like diseases,
- Mundulla Yellows of Eucalyptus;
- Chlorotic streak disease of sugarcane;
- Orange spotting of oil palms.
- Characterisation of viruses and viroids;
- Diagnosis by serological and nucleic acid based assays;
- Studies of interactions between viruses and vectors;
- Epidemiology of viruses and the development of cultural control methods;
- Cloning and sequencing of virus genomes;
- Introduction of virus genes into plants to induce transgenic resistance; and
- Analysis of geminivirus DNA replication.
Plant hosts:
- Vegetables;
- Fruit trees;
- Pasture legumes;
- Coconut palm and other tropical monocotyledons;
- Pulses;
- Sugarcane;
- Australian native species.
The group is distributed between the plant virus laboratories of the Discipline
of Plant & Food Science (Dr John Randles)
and CSIRO Plant Industry (Dr M Ali Rezaian) which are co-located on the Waite
Campus.
Research Programmes:
- Mundulla Yellows: A molecular approach to determine
the cause and disease cycle of Mundulla Yellows
An information article on the approach and results of research into Mundulla Yellows
is reproduced with permission from LANDSCOPE magazine, Winter 2002, published
by the Department of Conservation and Land Management, WA. To view this article
on Mundulla Yellows please click here (pdf 1MB).
To obtain more information about the magazine go to LANDSCOPE.
Contact Researchers: Dagmar Hanold
and John Randles
- Replication of a novel geminivirus DNA
Contact Researchers: Dongmei Li, Ali Rezaian and John
Randles
Funding: Australian Research Council
- Determining the causal agent of chlorotic streak disease of sugarcane
Contact Researchers: Kylie Rogers, John
Randles, Robert Magarey and Ali Rezaian
Funding: APA(I), BSES
Key Papers
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