CONNECTED - COmmunity Network for africaN vECTor borne plant viruses

CONNECTED - 非洲媒介传播植物病毒社区网络

• 批准号: BB/R005397/1
• 负责人: Gary Foster
• 金额: $ 219.09万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FR005397%2F1
• 关键词: CONNECTED; COmmunity; Network; africaN; vECTor

We propose a network in Vector Borne Disease (VBD) Research focusing on improved control of Plant Viruses, namely 'CONNECTED' - COmmunity Network for africaN vECTor borne plant viruses. Our focus is Sub Saharan Africa, one of the poorest regions of the world and in which VBDs create highly significant constraints for production of staple and cash crops, for example cassava (cassava brown streak and mosaic diseases), sweet potato (sweet potato virus disease), maize (maize lethal necrosis) and yam (badnaviruses and yam mosaic virus diseases). Limiting production causes poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition, which in turn prevents economic and social development. Emergence of new VBDs in combination with climate change, resource limitations and a growing population will impact this region sooner and more significantly than other parts of the world and is of global significance. More effective agricultural research communities producing a pipeline of innovative disease control strategies are needed to increase agricultural productivity, improve incomes and market participation for smallholder farmers. 'CONNECTED' seeks to improve livelihoods of people in Sub-Saharan Africa by, firstly, engaging with established networks, stakeholders and funders in the region to focus and refine the most pressing research targets, preventing overlap with existing activities and targeting the work of the network to ensure UK academic excellence has maximum impact. Secondly, 'CONNECT' will pump prime a number of targeted innovative activities to generate tangible outputs in the short term, provide capacity building and training for virologists and other beneficiaries in the region. Finally, we will focus on growing 'CONNECTED' beyond researchers and other practitioners, to policy makers, funders, extension services, and certification schemes to generate a forum for knowledge exchange and sustainable activity in the field of VBD, ensuring UK academic excellence targets its research to deliver regional development impact beyond the three years of the project. CONNECTED has assembled an inter-disciplinary management board with an independent chair, an experienced management team and effective governance structure. Every member has active collaborations in Sub Saharan Africa working on diverse but complementary aspects of VBD control, ensuring the work undertaken is relevant, novel and utilises academic excellence most efficiently. We have board members from five significant research institutes in East and West Africa (IITA, KALRO, KEPHIS, AATF and NARO), providing the focus for the network activities within three Lower Middle Income Countries as defined by OECD's Development Assistance Committee, namely Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. We have leading experts on VBD as well as specialists in sustainability, social and environmental sciences, impact, learning, evaluation and inter-disciplinarity. Our board covers not just academic research organisations, but policy, extension and certification within the region, so as to not just focus on research excellence, but to deliver long lasting impact in the region. The board has identified five key areas where 'CONNECTED' will benefit sustainable VBD control: 1. Control strategies, 2. Vector biology, 3 New Diseases, 4. Vector/Virus Interactions, 5. Diagnostics/Surveillance/Forecasting; as identified by the ODA relevance statement. The board has decided to focus beyond specific single crop VBDs to include all VBDs of importance to African smallholders. To date international investment has focused predominantly on specific VBDs (e.g. in cassava and sweet potato) with some neglected and emerging VBDs (e.g. in yams, maize and beans) remaining under-researched. A major aim of CONNECTED will be to connect UK and African experts to pull together knowledge across crops, disciplines and regions to have maximum impact on food security from the mixed cropping systems important to smallholders.

我们提议建立一个媒介传播疾病（VBD）研究网络，重点关注改善植物病毒的控制，即“CONNECTED”——非洲媒介传播植物病毒社区网络。我们的重点是撒哈拉以南非洲地区，这是世界上最贫穷的地区之一，其中VBD对主要作物和经济作物的生产造成了非常严重的限制，例如木薯（木薯褐条病和花叶病）、甘薯（甘薯病毒病）、玉米（玉米致死性坏死病）和山药（坏DNA病毒和山药花叶病毒病）。限制生产会导致贫困、粮食不安全和营养不良，进而阻碍经济和社会发展。新VBD的出现，加上气候变化、资源限制和人口增长，将比世界其他地区更快、更显着地影响该地区，具有全球意义。需要更有效的农业研究团体制定一系列创新疾病控制战略，以提高农业生产力，提高小农的收入和市场参与度。 “CONNECTED”旨在改善撒哈拉以南非洲地区人民的生计，首先，与该地区现有的网络、利益相关者和资助者合作，重点关注和完善最紧迫的研究目标，防止与现有活动重叠，并瞄准网络的工作，以确保英国的学术卓越产生最大的影响。其次，“CONNECT”将启动一系列有针对性的创新活动，以在短期内产生切实成果，为该地区的病毒学家和其他受益者提供能力建设和培训。最后，我们将专注于将“联系”扩展到研究人员和其他从业者之外，扩展到政策制定者、资助者、推广服务和认证计划，以建立一个VBD领域知识交流和可持续活动的论坛，确保英国学术卓越的目标是其研究在项目三年后产生区域发展影响。 CONNECTED 组建了一个跨学科的管理委员会，拥有独立的主席、经验丰富的管理团队和有效的治理结构。每个成员都在撒哈拉以南非洲积极合作，致力于 VBD 控制的多样化但互补的方面，确保所开展的工作具有相关性、新颖性并最有效地利用学术优势。我们的董事会成员来自东非和西非的五个重要研究机构（IITA、KALRO、KEPHIS、AATF 和 NARO），为经合组织发展援助​​委员会定义的三个中低收入国家（即肯尼亚、乌干达和尼日利亚）的网络活动提供重点。我们拥有 VBD 领域的顶尖专家以及可持续发展、社会和环境科学、影响、学习、评估和跨学科领域的专家。我们的董事会不仅涵盖学术研究组织，还涵盖该地区的政策、推广和认证，以便不仅关注卓越的研究，而且在该地区产生持久的影响。委员会确定了“连接”将有利于可持续VBD控制的五个关键领域：1.控制策略，2.媒介生物学，3新疾病，4.媒介/病毒相互作用，5.诊断/监测/预测；正如官方发展援助相关性声明所确定的。董事会决定将重点放在特定单一作物 VBD 之外，涵盖对非洲小农户重要的所有 VBD。迄今为止，国际投资主要集中在特定的VBD（例如木薯和甘薯）上，而一些被忽视和新兴的VBD（例如山药、玉米和豆类）仍未得到充分研究。 CONNECTED 的一个主要目标是将英国和非洲专家联系起来，汇集跨作物、学科和地区的知识，通过对小农至关重要的混合种植系统对粮食安全产生最大影响。

项目成果

The Effects of Cucumber Mosaic Virus and Its 2a and 2b Proteins on Interactions of Tomato Plants with the Aphid Vectors Myzus persicae and Macrosiphum euphorbiae.

• DOI: 10.3390/v14081703
• 发表时间: 2022-08-01
• 期刊: Viruses

Susceptibility of five cabbage varieties to attack by aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the Accra plains of Ghana

加纳阿克拉平原五个卷心菜品种对蚜虫（半翅目：蚜科）侵袭的易感性

• DOI: 10.1007/s12600-020-00863-y
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Phytoparasitica
• 影响因子: 1.4
• 作者: Adenka K

Induction of aphid resistance in tobacco by the cucumber mosaic virus CMV?2b mutant is jasmonate-dependent

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• DOI: 10.17863/cam.93846
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Arinaitwe W