Sunday – Registration and Welcome reception and dinner

12:00-5:00 Registration and Check in – Lobby of Robert Purcell Community Center

5:00-6:00 Welcome reception – Room 303 Appel Commons

6:00-8:00 Buffet dinner – Room 303 Appel Commons

Monday – Virus Epidemiology and Etiology

8:00-8:30 Welcome and Introductions – Room 303 Appel Commons

Moderator, Sunny Power

8:30-9:15 Keynote Speaker:

Mike Jeger, Imperial College London, UK

Modeling plant virus transmission: from within-plant virus dynamics to epidemic development 

M. Jeger, G. Powell, L.V. Madden and F. van den Bosch

Invited Presentations

9:15 - James Legg, IITA-Tanzania

A tale of two epidemics: the contrasting dynamics of cassava mosaic and cassava brown streak diseases in East Africa.

J.P. Legg, S.C. Jeremiah, H.M. Obiero, M. N. Maruthi, I. Ndyetabula, G. Okao-Okuja, D.J. Kim, H. Bouwneester, S. Bigirimana, W. Tata-Hangy, G. Gashaka, G. Mkamilo, T. Alicai, and P.L. Kumar

9:45 - Cecile Desbiez, INRA, France 

Molecular epidemiology of potyviruses infecting cucurbits in France: a case study for understanding evolution of plant virus populations.

C. Desbiez, B. Joannon, C. Chandeysson, C. Wipf-Scheibel, and H. Lecoq

10:15 – Coffee break

10:45 - Roger Jones, Dept of Agriculture and Food, Australia

Epidemiology of Zucchini yellow mosaic virus: effectiveness of non-host barriers, spread, resistance breakdown, alternative hosts, and molecular characterization.

B. Coutts, M. Kehoe, S. Wylie, C. Webster and R. Jones

11:15 - Albert Culbreath, Univ. of Georgia, U.S.

Epidemiology of tomato spotted wilt in peanut in the Southeastern United States.

 A. Culbreath and R. Srinivasan

11:45 - Nilsa Bosque-Perez, Univ. of Idaho, U.S.

Influence of virus-induced changes in plants on aphid vectors and potential impacts on virus epidemiology.

N. Bosque-Perez

12:15-1:30 – Lunch – North Star Cafeteria, Appel Commons

15 minute Oral Presentations – Room 303 Appel Commons

Moderator – Juan Manuel Alvarez

1:30 – Landscape/pathosystem components that contribute to epidemic risk in plant virus pathosystems: a conceptual model

            F. W. Nutter, Jr.

1:45 – Emergence, establishment, and epidemiology of Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus in California

            W. M. Wintermantel, E. T. Natwick, R. L. Gilbertson and J. D. McCreight

2:00 – Epidemiology of Iris yellow spot virus in eastern North American onion ecosystems

            B. Nault, C. Hsu, E. Smith, A. Shelton, M. Fuchs and C. Hoepting

2:15 –  Search for factors potentially involved in the rapid shift in Watermelon mosaic virus (WMV) populations in south-eastern France

H. Lecoq, F. Fabre, B. Joannon, C. Wipf-Scheibel, C. Chandeysson, A. Schoeny and C. Desbiez

2:30 –  Pepino mosaic virus: what do we know so far and how to proceed

            R. A. A. van der Vlugt

2:45 –  The epidemiology of Tobacco streak virus in central Queensland, Australia

            M. Sharman, J. E. Thomas and D. M. Persley

3:00 –  Alternative hosts of two tospoviruses in Queensland, Australia

            D. Persley, M. Sharman, J. Thomas and C. Gambley

3:15 –  Epidemiological analysis of multi-virus infections of watermelon in experimental fields in southwest Florida

            W. W. Turechek, C. S. Kousik, C. G. Webster, P. A. Stansly, P. D. Roberts and S. Adkins

5 minute Poster Advertisements – Room 303 Appel Commons

Moderator – Roger Jones

3:30 – Phenology of aphids and their potential as virus vectors in a northern seed potato production area in Finland – Poster # Ep1

            S. M. Kirchner, L. Hiltunen, E. Virtanen and J. P. T. Valkonen

3:35 –  Preliminary disease progress curve of Potyviruses and vector interaction in garlic crop in Argentina – Poster # Ep2

            M. C. Perotto, S. Lanati, S. Panonto, E. E. Cafrune and V. C. Conci

3:40 –  WITHDRAWN Occurrence and epidemics of Wheat dwarf virus in China - Poster # Ep3

            Xifeng Wang, B. Wu and G. Zhou

3:45 – WITHDRAWN Temporal and spatial spread of Chickpea chlorotic dwarf virus (CpCDV) in chickpea in northern Sudan – Poster # Ep4

            Abdelmagid Adlan Hamed

3:50 –  The genus Torradovirus, a new plant virus genus now harbouring three species all infecting tomato – Poster # Ep5

            Martin Verbeek, A. Dullemans, P. Maris, H. van den Heuvel and R. van der Vlugt

3:55 –  Evaluation of thrips-Iris yellow spot virus interactions through an indicator host, lisianthus (Eustoma grandiflorum) – Poster # Ep6

Rajagopalbabu  Srinivasan, D. Riley, S. Diffie, H. Pappu and R. Gitaitis

4:00 – 6:00 Posters – Room 218, Robert Purcell Community Center

Coffee, Iced Tea and snacks provided –cash bar also available

AUTHORS – please plan to be at your posters from at least 4:30-5:00

Ep7      Relationships between Citrus tristeza virus spread and aphid species (Hemiptera, Aphididae) population composition in different citrus species and geographical areas

            C. Marroquín, Alfonso Hermoso de Mendoza and M. Cambra

Ep8      Dually stressed tobacco plants demonstrate heavier cell pathology

            O. Iutinska, A. Bysov, O. Shevchenko and V. Polischuk

Ep9      The incidence and genetic diversity of Turnip yellows virus (TuYV) in winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus) in England

            Elvis Asare-Bediako, C. Jenner, M. Stevens and J. Walsh

Ep10    Occurrence and distribution of viruses in cucurbits from Oklahoma

Akhtar Ali and A. Khattab

Ep11    Detection of Soil-borne cereal mosaic virus in Belgium on wheat and barley

C. Vaïanopoulos, A. Legrève, C. Lorca, V. Moreau, M. Wattiez and C. Bragard

Ep12    Epidemiology of Plum pox virus in Ukraine

I. Budzanivska, L. Usko, A. Gospodaryk, F. Demyanenko and V. Polischuk

Ep13    Multiplex PCR assay for the simultaneous differentiation Potato virus Y strains and the first report of the occurrence of the Eu-PVY^NTN strain in Japan

M. Chikh Ali, T. Maoka, M. Taniguchi, J. Sasaki and T. Natsuaki

Ep14    Monitoring and forecasting virus diseases in legumes in the Palouse region of the inland Pacific Northwest, USA

D. S. Husebye, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, E. Bechinksi, A. V. Karasev,  S. L. Clement, B. Vemulapati and H. Pappu

Ep15    Disruption of two defensive signaling pathways by the cucumber mosaic virus 2b RNA silencing suppressor

M. G. Lewsey, A. M. Murphy, D. MacLean, N. Dalchau, J. H. Westwood, K. Macaulay, M. H. Bennett, M. Moulin, D. E. Hanke, G. Powell, A. G. Smith, Heiko Ziebell and J. Carr

Ep 16   Cassava brown streak virus diversity and development of improved virus diagnostics

M. N. Maruthi, M. M. Abarshi, I. U. Mohammed, S. E. Seal, R. J. Hillocks, L. Kumar, and J. Legg

Ep 17   Epidemiology of cassava brown steak disease in Uganda

T. Alicai, C. A. Omongo, R. Kawuki, A. Pariyo, Y. Baguma, A. Bua

Ep 18   Symptomatology and biological characterization of Citrus tristeza virus isolates in Pakistan

M. Abbas, M. M. Khan, S. M. Mughal and I. A. Khan

Dinner is on your own – ask any of the locals for recommendations on restaurants. Ithaca has an amazing selection of cuisine types for a town of its size. You can walk to College Town or grab the bus to the Downtown Commons.

There are also a number of restaurants that will deliver to the Townhouses – a list of menus is located in each of the townhouses.

Also, please stop by the Hospitality Suite anytime between 7-11PM.

Tuesday – Virus Ecology and Evolution

8:00-8:15 Welcome and Introductions – Room 303 Appel Commons

Moderator – Carolyn Malmstrom

8:15-9:00 Keynote Speaker:

Alison “Sunny” Power, Cornell Univ., U.S.

The community ecology of Barley/cereal yellow dwarf viruses in Western US grasslands.

 A. Power, E.T. Borer, C.E. Mitchell, and E.W. Seabloom

Invited Presentations

9:00 - William Schneider, USDA-ARS, U.S.

Balancing selection for replication and horizontal transmission by mimicking field conditions

W. Schneider, A. L. Stone, B. Tian, F. E. Gildow and V. D. Damsteegt

9:30 - Fernando Garcia-Arenal, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system for plant virus ecology and plant-virus co-evolution

F. García-Arenal, I. Pagán, A. Fraile, N. Montes and C. Alonso-Blanco

10:00  Coffee Break

10:30 - Marilyn Roossinck,  Noble Foundation, U.S.

Wild plant viruses and disease ecology

M. Roossinck

11:00 - Jan Kreuze,  CIP, Peru

siRNA deep sequencing for the discovery and sequencing of novel viruses

J. F. Kreuze, W. Cuellar, G. Müller, R. Kumria, C. Fauquet and I. Barker

11:30 - J. Patrick Cronin, Univ. North Carolina, U.S.

            Host physiological phenotype predicts key epidemiological parameters

            J. Patrick Cronin, M. E. Welsh, M. G. Dekkers, S.T. Abercrombie and C. E. Mitchell

12:00-1:30 – Lunch – North Star Cafeteria, Appel Commons

15 minute Oral Presentations – Room 303 Appel Commons

Moderator – Marilyn Roossinck

1:30 – When did the new world and old world begomoviruses diverge?

            Siobain Duffy and J. A. McConnell

1:45 – Origin, evolution and molecular epidemiology of Papaya ringspot virus

X. A.  Olarte Castillo, Y. Rojas, P.  Tennant, M. Fuchs, R. Sierra, A. J. Bernal, G. Fermin and S. Restrepo

2:00 – Long-term evolution of the Luteoviridae: time-scale and mode of virus speciation

            Israel Pagán and E. C. Holmes

2:15 –  Adaptation of Soybean dwarf virus to new host species

            Bin Tian, W. L. Schneider and F. E. Gildow

2:30 –  Towards the description of the plant virus metagenome of the French sub-Antarctic Islands

Armelle Marais, C.Faure, S. Arous, L. Svanella-Dumas, C. Couture, M. Hullé and Thierry Candresse

2:45 –  Ecogenomic study of plant viruses reveals widespread infection of wild plants with Zucchini yellow mosaic virus

            Prasenjit Saha, F. Chavarría, J. Quan, H. C. Lai, B. A. Roe and M. J. Roossinck

3:00 –  The significance of wild plants in the evolutionary diversification of Sweet potato feathery mottle virus in East Africa

A. K. Tugume , S. B. Mukasa and J. P. T. Valkonen

3:15 –  Plant-virus co-evolution in wild brassicas

            J. A. Walsh, C. Obermeier, P. J. Hunter, R. Machado, K. Ohshima and M. J. Kearsey

5 minute Poster Advertisements – Room 303 Appel Commons

Moderator – Hanu Pappu

3:30 – The effect of transmission mode on genetic diversity in Zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV). Poster # Ec1

            Heather E. Simmons, E. C. Holmes and A. G. Stephenson

3:35 –  Genetic structure and molecular variability of Grapevine fanleaf virus populations within three naturally infected California vineyards. Poster # Ec2

            J. E. Oliver, E. Vigne and M. Fuchs

3:40 –  Next-generation sequencing of plant viruses. Poster # Ec3

Wendy Monger, R. Glover, I. Adams and N. Boonham

3:45 – Genetic variability, recombination events and rates of molecular evolution in Citrus tristeza virus. Poster # Ec4

            G. Silva, and G. Nolasco

3:50 –  A survey of begomoviruses and associated satellites infecting plants in the cotton-growing areas of Northwestern India. Poster # Ec5

V.  Zaffalon, V. S. Reddy, S. K. Mukherjee, M. Tepfer and Jeremy R. Thompson

3:55 –  The evolution of cassava brown streak-associated viruses (family Potyviridae) in East Africa. Poster # Ec6

D. R. Mbanzibwa, Y. P. Tian, A. K. Tugume, S. B. Mukasa, F. Tairo, S. Kyamanywa, A. Kullaya and J. P. T. Valkonen

4:00 – 6:00 Posters – Room 218, Robert Purcell Community Center

Coffee, Iced Tea and snacks provided –cash bar also available

AUTHORS – please plan to be at your posters from at least 4:30-5:00

Ec7      The diversity of ampeloviruses and badnaviruses in Australian pineapples and their association with mealybug wilt of pineapple (Aananas comosus)

C. F. Gambley, V. Steele, A. D. W. Geering and J. E. Thomas

Ec8      Variation in sugarcane cultivar host range of Sugarcane yellow leaf virus genotypes in Guadeloupe

Jean Heinrich Daugrois, D. Sarah, F. Emmanuel, G. Jean-Claude and R. Philippe

Ec9      Sequence comparison of different Cauliflower mosaic virus isolates infecting canola in Iran

Nooh Shahraeen, S. Ghaderi Maryam and F. Rakhshandehroo

Ec10    Metagenomics and quarantine: searching for the unknown

            Philippe Roumagnac

Ec11    Epidemiology and phylogenetic aspects of Iris yellow spot virus (Tospovirus) naturally infecting onion plants in Peru

A. S. Oliveira, R. C. T. Aliaga, T. A. Melgarejo, R. N. Lima and R. O. Resende

Ec12    Sequence analysis of Potato virus M isolates from Czech Republic

Helena Plchova, N. Cerovska, T. Moravec and P. Dedic

Ec13    Use of plant viruses in non-food agriculture

Noemi Cerovska, H. Plchova, T. Moravec, H. Hoffmeisterova, J. Folwarczna, V. Ludvíkova and M. Smahel

Ec14    Genetic diversity of Pepino mosaic virus in the U. S. and identification of a tomato infecting strain capable of inducing disease on potato

Kai-Shu Ling

Ec15    Evolution of resistance-breaking in Tomato spotted wilt virus: response to selection by sw5 mediated resistant tomato

Jessica L. Houle, J. W. Moyer and G. G. Kennedy

Ec16    Molecular characterization of endogenous plant pararetroviruses in wild Dahlia sp from natural habitats

S. G. Eid, C. V. Almeyda, K. L. Druffel, D. E. Saar and H. R. Pappu

Ec17    Molecular epidemiology of African cassava mosaic viruses in Yangambi, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo

G. Monde, J. Walangululu, S. Winter and C. Bragard

Ec18    Three commonly co-occurring perennial grass species have less herbivore and pathogen attack in their introduced range than in their native range

G. Kai Blaisdell and Bitty A. Roy

5:00-6:00PM   Business Meetings to be held independently for IPVE and PVEN

The PVEN business meeting will be held Tuesday @ 5:00 in Room 105 Robert Purcell Community Center

The IPVE business meeting will be held Tuesday @ 5:00 PM in Room 303, Appel Commons

Dinner is on your own – ask any of the locals for recommendations on restaurants. Ithaca has an amazing selection of cuisine types for a town of its size. You can walk to College Town or grab the bus to the Downtown Commons.

There are also a number of restaurants that will deliver to the Townhouses – a list of menus is located in each of the townhouses.

Also, please stop by the Hospitality Suite anytime between 7-11PM.

Wednesday – Vector Biology/Virus Transmission

8:00-8:15 Announcements  – Room  303 Appel Commons

Moderator – Nilsa Bosque-Perez

8:15-9:00 Keynote Speaker:

Stephane Blanc, INRA, France

The seemingly simple non-circulative transmission of a plant virus is hiding an extremely sophisticated interplay between virus, plant and vector    

Invited Presentations

9:00 - Bryony Bonning, Iowa State University, U.S.

An aphid gut binding peptide impedes entry of Pea enation mosaic virus into the aphid hemocoel

S. Liu and B. Bonning

9:30 - Rodrigo Almeida, Univ. California Berkley, U.S.

Grapevine leafroll-associated viruses – mealybug transmission biology and ecology

R. P. P. Almeida and K. M. Daane

10:00 – Coffee Break

10:30 - Piotr Trebicki, DPI, Biosciences Division, Australia

The impact of elevated CO₂ on wheat, Cereal yellow dwarf virus and its aphid vector

P. Trebicki, A. Freeman, J. Luck, M. Aftab, S. King, M. Spackman, G. Fitzgerald, K. Powell, S. Seneweera and N. A. Bosque-Perez

11:00 - James Ng, Univ. California Riverside, U.S.

Virus-vector interactions mediating the specific retention and whitefly transmission of criniviruses

J. Ng

11:30 -  Drake Stenger,  USDA, ARS, U.S.

Sequence polymorphism of a glassy-winged sharpshooter phytoreovirus reveals
a bottleneck in the Californian population

D. Stenger

12:00-1:30 – Lunch – North Star Cafeteria, Appel Commons

15 minute Oral Presentations – Room 303 Appel Commons

Moderator – Rodrego Almeida

1:30 – Differential transmission rates of  PVY^O and PVY^NTN from two inoculum sources by three aphid vectors

J.M. Alvarez and F. Cervantes

1:45 – Vector fitness on infected plants affects virus epidemiology

Belén Belliure, B. Sabater-Muñoz, M. E. Martínez and M. R. Albiach-Marti

2:00 –  Deceptive chemical signals induced by a plant virus attract insect vectors to inferior hosts

Kerry Mauck, C. De Moraes and M. Mescher

2:15 – Comparative genome analysis of an asymptomatic Citrus tristeza virus isolate with its symptomatic aphid transmitted sub-isolates

Avijit Roy, N. Choudhary, V. D. Damsteegt and R. H. Brlansky

2:30 – Alterations of capsid protein amino acid positions internal to the virion disrupt nonpersistent virus transmission by aphids

C. A. Bricault and Keith Perry

2:45 – New insights on the transmission mechanisms of plant viruses by their aphid vectors

A. Moreno, E. Garzo, G. Fernandez, M. Kassem, M. A. Aranda and A. Fereres.

3:00 – Identification of Myzus persicae proteins that interact with PVY HC-Pro in vitro

Ahmad Al-Mrabeh, A. Ziegler, B. Fenton, G. Cowan and L. Torrance

3:15 – Biomarkers distinguishing virus transmission competent and refractive insect populations identified by coupling genetics with quantitative intact proteomics

Michelle Cilia, C. Tamborendeguy, K. Howe, T. Fish, T. Thannhauser and S. Gray

5 minute Poster Advertisements – Room 303 Appel Commons

Moderator – Russ Groves

3:30 – Determination of aphid transmission efficiencies for N, NTN and Wilga strains of Potato virus Y.  Poster # Vb1

Martin Verbeek, P. Piron, A. Dullemans, C. Cuperus and R.van der Vlugt

3:35 -   Antagonistic effects of PVY-infected potato plants on aphids.  Poster # Vb2

S. Boquel, P. Giordanengo and A. Ameline

3:40 -   Variation in transmission of Tomato spotted wilt tospovirus among isolates and populations of a vector, Thrips tabaci. Poster # Vb3

Alana Jacobson and G. Kennedy

3:45 -   Do secondary bacterial endosymbionts of Sitobion avenae clones affect vector specificity or transmission efficiency for barely yellow dwarf virus? Poster # Vb4

Hussein Alkhedir, S. Vidal, P. Karlovsky, A. Habekuss, and E. Schliephake

3:50 -   What’s new in polerovirus transmission? Poster # Vb5

Sylvaine Boissinot, B. Bencharki, B. Monsion, S. Revollon, M. Erdinger, C. Reinbold, V. Ziegler-Graff, S. Tanguy, D. Tagu and V. Brault

4:00 – 6:00 Posters – Room 218, Robert Purcell Community Center

Coffee, Iced Tea and snacks provided –cash bar also available

AUTHORS – please plan to be at your posters from at least 4:30-5:00

Vb6     Transmission of several isolates of Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) by Frankliniella occidentalis

D. Debreczeni, L. Rubio, J. Aramburu, L. Galipienso, C. López, S. Soler and Belén Belliure

Vb7     Transmission of two isolates of Broad bean wilt virus1 (BBWV-1) by several aphid species

I. Ferriol, L. Rubio and Belén Belliure

Vb8     Responses of Myzus persicae to headspace volatiles of Nicotiana benthamiana infected with artificial mutants of Potato leaf roll virus

Sanford D. Eigenbrode, H. Ding, A. V. Karasev and J. Kuhl

Vb9     Bird cherry-oat aphid behavior in response to barley yellow dwarf virus disease infection of wheat

L. L. Ingwell, Nilsa A. Bosque-Perez, L. M. Unger, H. Ding, A. V. Karasev and S. D. Eigenbrode

We will board the buses at 5:30PM for a 45 minute trip to Wagner Vineyard and Micro-Brewery located on the east side of Seneca Lake, the largest and deepest of the Finger Lakes. There will be a reception from 6:30-7:30. Appetizers and a cash bar will be available. The winery tasting room and store will be open at this time if you want to sample the Wagner Wines and Beers or pick up some New York State Wine paraphernalia.

A buffet dinner will be served at 7:30. We should be back on campus by 10:30.

Thursday – Virus Disease Management/Detection/Diagnosis

8:00-8:15 Announcements  – Room 303 Appel Commons

Moderator – Scott Adkins

8:15-9:00 Keynote Speaker

Ian Barker, CIP, Nairobi

Clean seed programs in Africa

Invited Presentations

9:00 - Jari Valkonen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Cryotherapy of shoot tips as an efficient means for virus and phytoplasma elimination and healthy plant production

J. Valkonen

9:30 - Scott Adkins, USDA, ARS, U.S.

Ecology and management of whitefly-transmitted vegetable viruses in Florida

S. Adkins,C.G. Webster, C. S. Kousik, S. E. Webb, P. D. Roberts, P. A. Stansly and W. W. Turechek

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 - Britt-Louise Lennefors, Syngenta Corp, Sweden

Combination of natural and engineered resistance to rhizomania in sugar beet

B. Lennefors, E. I. Savenkov,J. Bensefelt, E. Wremerth-Weich, P. van Roggen, S. Tuvesson, J. P. T. Valkonen and J. Gielen

11:00 - Renato Resende – Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil

Development of broad, stable and durable resistance to monopartite and bipartite begomoviruses in Brazilian tomato lines

R. Resende

11:30 - Russell Groves,  University of Wisconsin, U.S.

Modeling vector flights to increase effectiveness of foliar protectant programs

R. L. Groves, A. Charkowski and A. Crockford

12:00-1:30 – Lunch – North Star Cafeteria, Appel Commons

15 minute Oral Presentations – Room 303 Appel Commons

Moderator – Jari Valkonen

1:30 – A mutation in the NIB cistron of Potato virus Y confers virulence towards the Pvr4 resistance of pepper and a high competitiveness cost in susceptible cultivar

            B. Janzac, J. Montarry, A. Palloix, O. Navaud and Benoît Moury

1:45 – Modulation of virus-host plant interplay in the tomato yellow leaf curl disease by using insect resistance in the tomato host

M. J. Rodriguez-López, E. Garzo, J. P. Bonani, A. Fereres, R.Fernández-Muñoz and E. Moriones

2:00 – Mild and aggressive Pepino mosaic virus isolates: tomato transcriptomic responses and the potential of cross-protection as a control strategy

Inge M. Hanssen, H. P. van Esse, A. Paeleman, I. Gutiérrez-Aguirre, K. Goen, L. Wittemans, B. Lievens, M. Ravnikaran- Bart and  P. H. J. Thomma

2:15 –  Controlling the banana bunchy top disease pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa

P. Lava Kumar, R. Hanna, A. Fotso, M. Soko, S. A. Akinbade, O. J. Alabi, J. Ngeve and R. A. Naidu

2:30 –  Improved virus diagnostics to support seed certification in Australia

            B. C. Rodoni, M. Milinkovic, C. Bottcher, P. Pongsapit and S. Sombat

2:45 –  Epidemiology of Plum pox virus (PPV) in nursery blocks and evaluation of the effect of horticultural mineral oil treatments

            Eduardo Vidal, A. Moreno, E. Bertolini and M. Cambra

3:00 –  Biological control of vectors affects virus dispersal

Belén Belliure, H. R. Amorós, M. A. Marcos-Garcia, I. R. Steba, A. Moreno and A. Fereres

3:15 –  A cucumber mosaic virus mutant that induces resistance to its aphid vector in tobacco

Heiko Ziebell, A. Murphy, M. G. Lewsey, J. H. Westwood, K. L. Perry, M. Stevens and J. P. Carr

5 minute Poster Advertisements – Room 303 Appel Commons

Moderator – Ian Barker

3:30 – Rhizomania of sugar beet: Similarities and differences between the Iranian and European situation. Poster # Dm1

            Y. Galein, A. Champeil, M. Merhvar and C. Bragard

3:35 –  Survival of Pepino mosaic virus in aqueous environment reveals the need for efficient detection system suitable not only for plant but also for environmental samples. Poster # Dm2

            Maja Ravnikar, N. Mehle, N. Prezelj, D. Delić, U. Vidic, P. Kramberger and I. Gutieerrez-Aguirre

3:40 –  Viruses in weeds in Dioscorea yam fields in Nigeria. Poster # Dm 3

            S. Asala, C. P. Shinggu, R. Asiedu and P. Lava-Kumar

3:45 – Simultaneous detection of two important bean RNA viruses by multiplex reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Poster # Dm4

A. Saidi, Nooh Shahraeen and A. Azizi,

3:50 –  Distribution of  PVY strains in susceptible and moderately resistant North American cultivars. Poster # Dm5

            Jonathan Whitworth, S. Gray, A. Karasev and J. Lorenzen

3:55 –  Detection and molecular epidemiology of Oat sterile dwarf virus. Poster # Dm6

I. Eriksson, J. N. E. Ramsell, A. Linnell, N. Shad, J. Holmblad, B. Ekbom, L. Frykberg, F. Rabenstein and Anders Kvarnheden

4:00 – 6:00 Posters – Room 218, Robert Purcell Community Center

Coffee, Iced Tea and snacks provided –cash bar also available

AUTHORS – please plan to be at your posters from at least 4:30-5:00

Dm7    Restricted spread by Bemisia tabaci of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus in the begomovirus-resistant Brazilian line TX-468

R. C. Pereira-Carvalho, J. A. Díaz-Pendón, R. Fernández-Muñoz,R. O. Resende, L. S. Boiteux and E. Moriones

Dm8    Occurrence, incidence and distribution of viruses infecting yam (Dioscorea spp) in Nigeria

S. Asala, M. D. Alegbejo, B. D. Kashina, O. O. Banwo, R. Asiedu and P. Lava-Kumar

Dm9    A Cucumber mosaic virus 2b-mutant was not able to establish a systemic infection in bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)

J. Masiri, N. V. Velasquez and John F. Murphy

Dm10  Incidence and prevalence of Strawberry mild yellow edge virus (SMYEV) in Argentina

A. K. Torrico, F. Fernández, A. Ishikawa, N. G. Meneguzzi, L. R. Conci, M. del Huerto Sordo, A. M. Borquez, R. Pacheco, V. Obregón, D. S. Kirschbaum and Vilma C. Conci

Dm11  Plum pox potyvirus

Vahida Seremet

Dm12  A tospovirus new to North America: virus detection and discovery through the use of a macroarray for viruses of solanaceous crops

Keith L. Perry and X. Lu

Dm13  Toward aphid-resistant transgenic plants

S. Liu, Z. Wang, S. Sivakumar, L. Georgievska, G. F. King, W. A. Miller and Bryony C. Bonning

Dm14  Potyviruses of legume weeds and Passiflora spp. from Western Australia: Biological properties and phylogenetic placement of coat protein sequences

B. A. Coutts, M. A. Kehoe, C. J. Webster, S. J. Wylie and R. A. C. Jones

Dm15  Incidence and control of cucurbit viruses in NWFP Pakistan

Asad Ali, A. Hussain, M. Ahmad and T. Natsuaki

Dm16  Post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) is a mechanism of plant host-defense against viruses

P. Gouveia, A. Costa and G. Nolasco

Dm17  Development of several laboratory assays for the detection of Apricot latent virus

L. Grimová, M. Zouhar and P. Ryŝánek

Dm18  Virus diseases of cereal crops in the Czech Republic

J. Jaroŝová, S. Gadiou, J. Ripl and Jiban Kumar Kundu

Dm19  Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) resistant potatoes

Tomas Moravec, H. Plchova, P. Dedic and N. Cerovska

Dm20  Viral infection of wild orchids in Ukraine

V. Polischuk, I. Budzanivska and G. Koroteeva

Dm21  Analysis of the temporal and spatial spread of Plum pox virus as influenced by USA and Canadian eradication programs

A. Gougherty and Forrest W. Nutter, Jr.

Dm22  Bean common mosaic virus and Bean common mosaic necrosis virus in Mazandaran province of Iran

Shahraeen Nooh, S. Asghari and G. Shereen

Dm23  Precision breeding Potato virus Y resistance using a modified potato gene

J. Cavatorta, M. Jahn and S. Gray

Dm24  Plant virus control employing RNA-based vaccines: A novel non-transgenic strategy

Andreas Voloudakis, Thomas Hohn and Maria Holeva (Jari Valkonen presenting)

6:00 – The conference is officially adjourned. For those of you staying in Ithaca we will have the hospitality suite open from 7:00 – 11:00PM.

Meeting Schedule at a Glance