Virus research
Viruses are ubiquitous microorganisms which are most often studied as pathogenic (disease-causing) entities. While this is the primary reason for the study of plant viruses in the agricultural environment, recent work has revealed that viruses may have benign effects in the more natural environment.
In the Cell and Molecular Sciences group we study different aspects of virus biology including fundamental research into virus-host interactions at the molecular and cell biological levels, natural and engineered resistance to viruses, transmission of viruses by vectors, uses of viruses for biotechnology and the influence of viruses on soil function.
We also have ongoing, externally-funded collaborations to extend our research outside of the UK.
Topics
Research
- Science Departments
- Cell and Molecular Sciences
- Phytophthora infestans research
- Potato Cyst Nematodes
- Virus research
- Rhynchosporium on barley
- Bacterial Plant Pathogens
- Human and animal pathogens on plants
- Epidemiology and population biology
- Aphid-Plant Interactions
- Dundee Effector Consortium
- Integrated pest management
- Imaging Technologies
- Cereal genetics
- Potato genetics
- Soft fruit genetics, genomics and phenomics
- Abiotic stress research
- Staff and Students
- Alternative splicing and stress
- Ecological Sciences
- Environmental and Biochemical Sciences
- Natural products and food chemistry
- Environmental monitoring
- Automatic Weather Station - Invercauld
- Automatic Weather Station - Sourhope Farm
- Monitoring Data - Lunan
- Monitoring Data - Tarland Burn, Aboyne
- Monitoring Data - Tarland Burn, Coull
- Monitoring Data - Tarland Burn, Netherton
- Monitoring Data - Tarland Burn, Tarland Village
- Monitoring Data - Yetholm Mains, Bowmont Water
- Soil chemistry and mineralogy
- Biochemistry and hydrology
- Soil physics and characterisation
- Environmental Chemistry
- Isotope applications
- Analysis equipment
- Field sites and research platforms
- Environmental and Biochemical Sciences Staff
- Information and Computational Sciences
- Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
- Cell and Molecular Sciences
- Research Facilities
- International
- Postgraduate study
- Research Partners
Areas of Interest
- Areas of Interest
- Centre for Human and Animal Pathogens in the Environment
- New Zealand Flatworm
- Water and food security
- National waters inventory Scotland
- Nutrient cycles
- Future scenarios for water resources
- Ecosystem services approaches
- Exploring ways for the application of ecosystem services approaches at the catchment level
- UNESCO Global Dialogue book
- Cost-effectiveness, disproportionality analysis and multiple benefits of the EU Water Framework Directive
- Payment for water ecosystem services
- Assessing and valuing peatland ecosystem services for sustainable management
- Valuing the impacts of ecosystem service interactions for policy effectiveness
- Water Futures: Towards Equitable Resource Management Strategies
- Water resource monitoring
- Global Change - the local context
- Coastal Research and Consultancy
- Farmer led phosphorus sampling
- Hydropower resources research
- Improving water quality in Scotland
- URflood
- Septic tank system for on-site wastewater treatment
- Scenarios and land use futures
- Scottish Rivers Handbook
- Land manager attitudes and behaviours
- Soil forensics
- Realising Land's Potential stakeholder engagement events
- Community-based Management of Environmental challenges in Latin America
- OrkCEmP: Exploring ideas about Community in Orkney
- Vibrant Rural Communities workshop
- Biodiversity
- Land
- People
- Ecosystem services
- Research outputs
- Improving the plant
- Optimising soil conditions
- Root-soil interactions
- Soil diversity
- Integrated pest management
- Soil science