Imperial College London
Michael J Jeger

Michael J Jeger

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Emeritus Professor of Horticulture
 
 
 
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+44 (0)1398 332 941m.jeger Website

 
 
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Home working 13 Brook Street, Bampton, Devon EX16 9LUSilwood ParkSilwood Park

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Jeger:2020:10.3390/plants9121768,
author = {Jeger, MJ},
doi = {10.3390/plants9121768},
journal = {Plants},
title = {The epidemiology of plant virus disease: towards a new synthesis},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9121768},
volume = {9},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Epidemiology is the science of how disease develops in populations, with applications inhuman, animal and plant diseases. For plant diseases, epidemiology has developed as a quantitativescience with the aims of describing, understanding and predicting epidemics, and intervening tomitigate their consequences in plant populations. Although the central focus of epidemiology isat the population level, it is often necessary to recognise the system hierarchies present by scalingdown to the individual plant/cellular level and scaling up to the community/landscape level. This isparticularly important for diseases caused by plant viruses, which in most cases are transmittedby arthropod vectors. This leads to range of virus-plant, virus-vector and vector-plant interactionsgiving a distinctive character to plant virus epidemiology (whilst recognising that some fungal,oomycete and bacterial pathogens are also vector-borne). These interactions have epidemiological,ecological and evolutionary consequences with implications for agronomic practices, pest and diseasemanagement, host resistance deployment, and the health of wild plant communities. Over the last twodecades, there have been attempts to bring together these differing standpoints into a new synthesis,although this is more apparent for evolutionary and ecological approaches, perhaps reflecting thegreater emphasis on shorter often annual time scales in epidemiological studies. It is argued here thatincorporating an epidemiological perspective, specifically quantitative, into this developing synthesiswill lead to new directions in plant virus research and disease management. This synthesis can serveto further consolidate and transform epidemiology as a key element in plant virus research.
AU  - Jeger,MJ
DO  - 10.3390/plants9121768
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 2223-7747
TI  - The epidemiology of plant virus disease: towards a new synthesis
T2  - Plants
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9121768
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000602411900001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/86227
VL  - 9
ER  -
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