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SUMMARY:Can plant viruses manipulate their transmission by insects and inf
 luence the evolution of their hosts? - John Carr\, Department of Plant Sci
 ences\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20191003T110000Z
DTEND:20191003T120000Z
UID:TALK131311@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:AJ te Velthuis
DESCRIPTION:Virus infection induces changes in plant volatile emission and
  in the accumulation of insect-deterring compounds in plant tissues. These
  effects can make plants more or less attractive to insects.  Using cucumb
 er mosaic virus (CMV) as a model my group has shown that infection with th
 is virus can affect interactions of host plants with harmful insects\, suc
 h as the aphid Myzus persicae\, which vectors CMV\, and with beneficial in
 sects including pollinators like the bumblebee\, Bombus terrestris (1\, 2)
 . In this talk I will discuss how viral manipulation of vectors can affect
  the epidemiology of aphid-transmitted viruses and\, curiously\, how virus
 -induced modification of plant-pollinator interactions may favour the repr
 oduction of susceptible over that of resistant plants.
LOCATION:Sackler Lecture Theatre\, Level 7\, CIMR\, Cambridge Biomedical C
 ampus
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