Department of Crop Sciences - Division of Plant Pathology and Crop Protection

Plant Virology

 Dept. Crop Sciences  Division Plant Pathology and Crop Protection   Reserach Section Plant Virology

Research topics:

• Mechanisms of plant virus pathogenicity and resistance in different Chenopodium ssp.
  • Examination of the hypersensitive response of Chenopodium spec. against root infection with Beet necrotic yellow-vein virus (BNYVV)
  
  
• Virus resistance in transgenic plants: aspects and perspectives of biological risk assessment

   Involvement of polymerase (NIb) and helicase (CI) of Plum pox virus (PPV) in viral recombination

  
  
• Establishing methods for resistance screening of agricultural crops against plant viruses
  • Establishment of methods for resistance screening of Beta vulgaris L. genotypes against Beet necrotic yellow-vein virus (BNYVV) by fluorescent tagging of the virus
  
  
• Survey of of potato gene-bank material for the existence of resistance against PVY-strains
  • Evaluation of gene-bank potato cultivars for resistance and symptom tolerance against tuber necrosis isolates of Potato virus Y (PVYNTN) for the use in ecological breeding programs.
  
  
• Use of bacterial genes in order to influence plant apical dominance

   Use of chemically induced expression of bacterial genes influencing plant habitus in order to control the apical dominance in transgenic Petunia and Calibrachoa hybrids