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Save our tatties! New approaches for virus control in Scottish potato crops.

Potato is the second most important food crop in the UK, and the underpinning seed potato industry contributes >£1 billion to Scotland’s economy. Aphid-vectored viruses threaten potato harvests because infected crops are downgraded or destroyed. Historically, Scotland has maintained low virus levels in potato crops, but this is changing due to the warming climate, new virus variants, loss of crop protection products, and aphid resistance to insecticides.

Dr Peter Skelsey

Peter is a Research Leader in the Information and Computational Sciences department at the James Hutton Institute. He is a plant disease epidemiologist with 15 years’ research experience in epidemiological modelling, with a focus on developing decision support tools for agriculture.

Area of Strategic Research Programme: Lead of Topic Line A1 (Plant Disease), institute Lead of Theme A (Plant & Animal Disease), Lead PI for project JHI-A1-1 “Epidemiology of key pests and diseases.”

Peter Skelsey

The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, Scotland

Dr Eugene Ryabov

Eugene is a research leader in virology in the Molecular plant pathology group within the Cell and Molecular Sciences department of JHI. His research focuses on virus-host interactions in plants and invertebrates and includes the discovery of novel viruses, analysis of virus population structure and diversity, host antiviral defenses and viral counter-defenses, the impact of viruses on the host physiology, and the wider effect of microbes on agricultural and natural ecosystems.

Areas of Strategic Research Programme

Eugene Ryabov

James Hutton Institute

Errol Road

Dundee

Scotland

DD2 5DA

Understanding the genetic mechanisms of resistance to Potato leafroll virus in potato - poster

Poster by Eugene Ryabov, Graham Cowan and Ingo Hein about 'Understanding the genetic mechanisms of resistance to Potato leafroll virus in potato'

Understanding the effects of virus genetics and potato variety on potato leafroll virus symptoms - poster

Poster by Eugene Ryabov and Graham Cowan on 'understanding the effects of virus genetics and potato variety on potato leafroll virus symptoms'

Aphids: the secrets of their success

SACAPP presentation by Alison Karley on 'aphids: the secrets of their success'

The highs and lows of aphid control using alternatives to pesticides

SSCR presentation by Alison Karley on 'the highs and lows of aphid control using alternatives to pesticides'

Farm Saved Seed - virus workshop

Workshop by SAC potatoes team on farm saved seed

Enhancing efficiency in vertical farming: a focus on crop improvement

Fluctuating environmental conditions severely impact Scottish crop production affecting crop yields, nutritional quality and food security. Growth in indoor environments such as vertical farms (VF) offers opportunities to extend food security by providing year-round production in precise, pest-free, optimised environments for year-round production of high-quality crops irrespective of external conditions.

Dr Kyriakos (Akis) Varypatakis

Akis is an experienced plant scientist with expertise in genomics, plant nematology and the application of next-generation sequencing techniques and analyses.

In his current role as Research Scientist within the Molecular Physiology & Genetics group at The James Hutton Institute, he works towards understanding the interactions between plants and abiotic or biotic factors using molecular biology tools and genomic approaches.

Area of Strategic Research Programme

Kyriakos (Akis) Varypatakis

The James Hutton Institute

Invergowrie

Dundee DD2 5DA

Scotland, UK

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