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School of the Biological Sciences

 

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