Role of aphids in the transmission of a suspected viral disease and the disease’s impact on the growth and yield of cabbage in Ghana

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• Dr Ken Okwe Fening, CAPREX Fellow
• Monday 21 March 2016, 14:00-15:00
• Tom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

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Dr Ken Okwae Fening of the University of Ghana Soil and Irrigation Research Centre is working with Dr John Carr of the Department of Plant Sciences of the University of Cambridge in exploring the “Role of aphids in the transmission of a suspected viral disease and the disease’s impact on the growth and yield of cabbage in Ghana”. Dr Fening has been funded by a fellowship form CAPREX and a research grant the Alborada Trust through Cambridge in Africa.

Dr Fening in his research observed symptoms of a disease threat to cabbage in Ghana which appears to have the characteristics of an insect-transmitted viral disease. The project aims to test the hypothesis that the causative agent of this disease is a virus. The study seeks to identify the causative agent and its most important potential insect vectors (aphids or whiteflies) and to assess the impact of the disease by initiating field experiments in Ghana.

Dr Fening will report on the molecular identification of the potential vector insects and on progress towards identification of the putative viral pathogen. The outputs of the project will provide the basis of diagnostic tests and allow for the formulation of sustainable disease management or eradication methods.

This talk is part of the Plant Sciences Talks series.

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• Cambridge Infectious Diseases
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