PLANT VIROLOGY

PLP 4222/PLP6223

SYLLABUS PLP 6223

(subject to change)

Text For Class:

R. Hull

Comparative Plant Virology

2nd Ed. Academic Press

Comparative Plant Virology on ScienceDirect(Opens new window)

VIRUS MODELS:

 

GUIDELINES FOR VIRUS MODEL

RUBRIC FOR VIRUS MODEL

 

CASE STUDIES:


GUIDELINES FOR CASE STUDIES

EVALUATION FORM FOR CASE STUDIES

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DATE
MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY
WEEK 1
May 14
May 16 May 18

LECTURE

 





NO CLASS




NO CLASS

LECTURE NO. 1

INTRODUCTION TO PLANT VIRUSES

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 3-13

"100 Years of Virology"

"Earliest Recorded Plant Virus Disease"

"The Discovery of the Causal Agent of Tobacco Mosaic"

"History of Plant Virology"

LABORATORY
PERIOD

 

WEEK 2
May 20 May 22 May 23

LECTURE

 

LECTURE NO. 2

VIRUSES AS PATHOGENS

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology

pp 23-41, 191-200

Scholthof 2011 "Top Ten Plant Viruses"

"Regulatory Costs of Plum Pox Disease"

Laliberte 2010 Cellular remodeling during plant virus infections

Perez-Bueno 2006 Effect of PMMV on chloroplasts

 

LECTURE NO. 3
VIRUS ARCHITECTURE

 

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 85-104

Harnessing Plant Viruses for Cancer Imaging and Therapy

"Plant and Bacteria Viruses Use in Nanotechnology"

"Utilisation of Viruses in Bionanotechnology"

"Virus Forms Nanotemplate"

"Review - Use of TMV and CPMV for the production of metal nanomaterials"

"Viruses Make Tech Materials"

LECTURE NO. 4

CLASSIFICATION AND TAXONOMY

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 13-21

Varsani et al 2014 Arch of Virology

"A proposal to change existing virus species names to non-Latinized binomials"

"Virgaviridae, New Family of Plant Viruses"

"Virus Nomeclature, Where Next?"

 

LABORATORY

ASSIGNMENT I: CONSTRUCT A VIRUS PARTICLE

ASSIGNMENT II: PLANT VIRUS CASE STUDY

 

LABORATORY NO. 1 - ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

 

LECTURE

PROCEDURE

 

 

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CHECK POINT 1

 

WEEK 3 May 27 May 29 May 31

LECTURE

  

 

 HOLIDAY -- NO CLASS

LECTURE NO. 5

SUBVIRAL AGENTS

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 43-61

Nawaz and Fauquet 2009

Mansoor et al 2006

APSnet Feature Viroids

Defective Interfering RNAs of a Satellite Virus

LECTURE NO. 6

PLANT VIRUS MOVEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION 

 

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 167-188

Harries and Ding 2011 "Cellular factors in plant virus movement"

 

LABORATORY

 

 

HOLIDAY -- NO CLASS

WORK ON VIRUS MODEL IN CLASS

LABORATORY 1c. REVIEW EM RESULTS

 

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WEEK 4 June 03 June 05 June 07

LECTURE

LECTURE NO. 7

REPLICATION OF PLUS SENSE SSRNA VIRUSES

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 139-163

Dolje et al 2006 Virus Research

Encyclopedia of Virology - Tobamoviruses

Encyclopedia of Virology - Potyviruses 

 

LECTURE NO. 8

REPLICATION OF MINUS SENSE, AMBISENSE RNA VIRUSES

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 139-163

Encyclopedia of Virology - Plant Rhabdoviruses

Encyclopedia of Virology - Tospovirses

LECTURE NO. 9

REPLICATION OF DSRNA AND VIROIDS

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 139-163

1. Encyclopedia of Virology - Reoviruses

2. Encyclopedia of Virology - Viroids

3. Flores 2005 Viroids and Viroid-Host Interactions

4. Flores 2012 Viroids: Survivors from the RNA World? 

LABORATORY

PAPER DISCUSSION: PLANT VIRUSES IN THE HUMAN BODY

LECTURE: METAGENOMICS AND PLANT VIRUSES

PAPERS:

Bretibart et al 2003,

Zhang et al 2006 

PAPER DISCUSSION:  A. LEVY

VIRUS MOVEMENT WITHIN PLANTS

Paper: LEVY ET AL 2013

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WEEK 5 June 10 June 12 June 14

LECTURE

LECTURE NO. 10

REPLICATION OF DNA VIRUSES

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 139-163

Encyclopedia of Virology - Caulimoviridae

Encyclopedia of Virology - Geminiviridae

OPTIONAL:

Hanley-Bowdoin 2013 Review

Poogin 2013 

LECTURE NO. 11

VIRUS STRAINS, VARIABILITY AND EVOLUTION

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 63-80

Koonin etal 2008 Nature Reviews

 

 

 

REVIEW FOR MIDTERM EXAM

LABORATORY

ASSIGNMENT DUE:

CONSTRUCTED VIRUS PARTICLE PRESENTATION

 

LABORATORY:  RECOGNITION OF VIRUS-INDUCED SYMPTOMS

 

LECTURE

 

PAPER DISCUSSION:  G. SUNTER

REPLICATION OF THE BEGOMOVIRUS, TGMV

 

BROUGH ET AL 1992

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WEEK 6 June 17 June 19 June 21

LECTURE

 

MIDTERM EXAM

LECTURE NO. 12

DIAGNOSIS AND DETECTION

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 245-260 

LECTURE NO. 13
BIOLOGICAL AND NUCLEIC ACID BASED ASSAYS

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 245-260

LABORATORY

 

 MIDTERM EXAM

 

PAPER DISCUSSION: ARE PLANT VIRUSES PATHOGENIC TO HUMANS?

PMMoV A Plant Virus Associated with Specific Immune Responses

 

 

June 24-28

SUMMER BREAK
SUMMER BREAK SUMMER BREAK
WEEK 7 July 01 July 03 July 05

LECTURE

LECTURE NO. 14

VIRUS ISOLATION AND SEROLOGY

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 245-260

LECTURE NO. 15

PROTEIN BASED ASSAYS

 

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 245-260

 

 

 HOLIDAY -- NO CLASS

LABORATORY LABORATORY 2:  ELISA

 

LECTURE

PROCEDURE

AGDIA INSTRUCTIONS

LABORATORY 2:  ELISA

 

 

 

WEEK 8 July 08 July 10 July 12

LECTURE

LECTURE NO. 16

SEED AND POLLEN TRANSMISSION

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 223-242

Pollen Transmission of PZSV

de Assis and Sherwood 2000

LECTURE NO. 17

VIRUS VECTORS - HEMIPTERA

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 223-242

 

LECTURE NO. 18

VIRUS VECTORS - BEETLES, THRIPS, NEMATODES

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 223-242

 

LABORATORY

PAPER DISCUSSION: TBD

R. JOHNSON (SAKATA SEEDS AMER) VIRUSES AND SEED HEALTH IN THE SEED INDUSTRY

 

PRESENTATION

 

 

WEEK 9 July 15 July 17 July 19

LECTURE

LECTURE NO. 19

POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 207-218

Virus Counterdefense

Wang et al 2012 Review RNA Silencing and Plant Viral Diseases

Li and Ding 2006 

 

LECTURE NO. 20

HOST MECHANISMS OF RESISTANCE

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 191-201

Review of SAR 2004

Review of R Genes 2005 

 

LECTURE NO. 21

GENETIC ENGINEERING AND VIRUS RESISTANCE

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 285-301

Blancke 2015 Fatal attraction, the appeal of GMO opposition

Couee 2016 Hidden attraction Empirical rationality in GMO oppostion

Blancke 2016 Response to Couee

LABORATORY

 

ASSIGNMENT II - PRESENTATION OF CASE STUDIES 

 

ASSIGNMENT II - PRESENTATION OF CASE STUDIES

 

 

WEEK 10

July 22
July 24
July 26

LECTURE

LECTURE NO. 22

PRINICIPLES OF VIRUS MANAGMENT I

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 269-283

 

LECTURE NO. 23

PRINCIPLES OF VIRUS MANAGMENT II

Reading:

Hull Comparative Plant Virology pp 269-283

 

REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM

LABORATORY

PAPER DISCUSSION:

ALMEIDA 2018

VIRUS MANAGEMENT - IN CLASS EXERCISE:  DESIGNING VIRUS MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

 

Questions to Ask

WEEK 11

July 29

 

FINAL EXAM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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