John Carr

Professor of Plant Virology, Department of Plant Sciences

John Carr's research focuses on how virus infection influences interactions of plants with other organisms and plants’ ability to withstand environmental stresses. Learn more

 

Research Areas

Plant-Virus interactions
Defence and signal transduction
Virus-induced effects on host-insect and host-insect interactions

Techniques Plant molecular viral and cellular biology Viral metagenomics Insect behavioural and performance assays Liquid and gas chromatography  Areas for Collaboration On-going collaborations with partners in sub-Saharan Africa in developing sustainable methods for control transmission of crop-infecting viruses       Research Theme