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Genetic Resources to Address Crop Loss from Insects and Insect Borne Disease

Reference	BBS/OS/GC/000013E
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Saskia Hogenhout
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Dr David Swarbreck
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	63,774
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	19/10/2016
End date	31/07/2017
Duration	9 months

Abstract

Insects and insect-borne plant disease impose very significant stresses on food crops and forage crops in the developing world. This is an important factor in terms of food insecurity in a number of regions. This deliverable will provide genetic data and resources to address two entomological questions in the developing world. In the first, one virus of an African forage grass appears to be transmitted by a number of different insects (better genetic information will allow for better understanding and therefore management). In the second, one insect appears to be adapted to be a pest of many different African and Asian crops, including maize and sweet potato (better genetic information will allow an understanding of this unusual polyphagy and ultimately better management)

Summary

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	Crop Science, Plant Science
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	GCRF National Institutes of Bioscience Data and Resources (GCRF NIBDR) [2016]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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