Location: Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research
Project Number: 8062-22410-007-002-A
Project Type: Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Apr 1, 2020
End Date: Mar 31, 2022
Objective:
To understand the Molecular Mechanisms of virus movement in insect and plant cells.
Approach:
Boyce Thompson Institute and ARS will use a combination of proteomics, vector biology, molecular virology, cell biology to address protein-protein interactions in the insect gut that regulate virus movement through the gut tissue.