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What is the impact of #climate change on banana growth in East Africa ? These plants are nearly ready to grow under current or future climate in the ecotron climatic chambers of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech. #clismaban project thanks to LEAP Agri. @MarcHeijde IPBO

Cool new paper shows how a supposedly phloem-limited virus in fact invades the xylem too, suggesting that such niche expansion influences viral pathogenicity.

Linking social science and biology is also one of the aims of INEXTVIR . To investigate the problems linked to plant viruses in Wallonia, Temple Coline is studying the grower’s perception and the presence of viruses via HTS in diversified farms. Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech Sebastien Massart

I am super happy of our first publication in Peer Community Journal. - High quality peer-review 👍 - No cost for publishing 👍 - No cost for reading 👍 Diamond Open-Acces😀 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24… BTW: useful dataset for the evaluation of #Bioinformatics for #virus detection #HTS

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Top-notch Belgian-Japanese team prepares switchgrass and hop virome samples for deep sequencing. Looking forward to some more cool data! Malmstrom Ecology Lab Kota Nakasato Francois Maclot #plantviruses

I am glad to share the most important slide of the talk... It is a real pleasure to collaborate daily with the smart and highly motivated scientists of the team. Thanks to them :-) BTW, great conference organised by Pedro Gómez

Congratulation to Núria Fontdevila Pareta for her paper! First report of several apple viruses in Belgium. bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nd… Sebastien Massart Agroscope Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech

[#viral #metagenomic] The ultimate #VANA biography by Oumaima Moubset et al. #virus #diversity #plant #insect #epidemiology #ecology apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/abs/10.109…

It's the greatest privilege to get to work with such wonderful colleagues. Just finished scoring switchgrass plants for the week w/ Mike Ryskamp & Francois Maclot. These two guys are working on some cool papers - keep an eye out for them! Malmstrom Ecology Lab LowryLab MSU AgBioResearch

Published today: Guidelines for using HTS technologies in plant pest diagnostic (part 1): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ep… (open access soon) All you need to know to start using HTS With >50 scientist from 40 countries & 35 labs From Valitest EU Project #sequencing #planthealth

Tobacco ringspot virus (TRSV) causes foliar mosaic, yellowing, and tree death in pawpaw (Asimina triloba), a native North American fruit. Concern for orchards! First report doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-1… Malmstrom Ecology Lab EEB at MSU MSU AgBioResearch

Very glad to see the big piece of my PhD published today in Microbiology Spectrum about virus ecology and diversity in Belgian agro-ecosystems, and the discovery of 37 novel viruses in wild and cultivated grasses. doi.org/10.1128/spectr… Sebastien Massart Université de Liège F.R.S.-FNRS

Huge congratulations to Temple Coline for her PhD graduation obtained after the didactic and clear presentation of her thesis result 🎉🎉 Beyond in depth biological characterization of PhCMoV, she dare to cross border, integrating socio-economy & phytopathology 👏👏 @inextvir

Key roles of Germplasm Health Units of CGIAR genebanks in ensuring safe distribution of germplasms: youtu.be/jgcVTwUKNCk This video introduces our virus testing and sanitation activities for the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT banana genebank. By BERHAL Chadi Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech #PlantHealth

In vitro culture of banana plants before virus sanitation or virus indexing. Our new tutorial video is on-line: youtu.be/h8UjpiPLYQM Underlining the work of Germplasm Health Units of CGIAR genebanks to ensure #PlantHealth and safe exchanges Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech

Here is another video presenting the Germplasm Health Unit (GHU) activities on virus testing for banana CGIAR germplasm, using classical PCR as recommended in guidelines: youtu.be/ytT5bG-HcGc #PlantHealth #diagnostics By Francois Maclot Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech Université de Liège

First report of phytoviruses infecting the invasive giant goldenrod (Solidago gigantea), with VeLV and novel viruses identified in Belgium : doi.org/10.1002/ndr2.1… Further ecological characterization in progress by Sebastien Massart Université de Liège #VirusEcology #InvasivePlants

Sampling in wild and rich ecosystems with Francois Maclot It is when you remind yourself how easy it was to survey for viruses in a crop field 😉 Done Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech and supported by F.R.S.-FNRS

🎉 Thrilled to share that our article is now published! mdpi.com/1999-4915/17/8… Grateful beyond words to Prof.Sébastien MASSART [Sebastien Massart] and his incredible team for their mentorship, insight, and unwavering support throughout this journey. #Virome #Science #SaIRV