Welcome to Cassava Virus Evolution!
Molecular evolution of plant viruses occurs through a combination of point mutations, recombination and reassortment of viral genome components. These processes produce a high degree of variation that undergoes selection to generate a subset of viral variants well adapted to their plant hosts and efficiently transmitted by their insect vectors.
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Welcome to Cassava Virus Evolution!
Molecular evolution of plant viruses occurs through a combination of point mutations, recombination and reassortment of viral genome components. These processes produce a high degree of variation that undergoes selection to generate a subset of viral variants well adapted to their plant hosts and efficiently transmitted by their insect vectors.
Learn more Photo Credit : S. Duffy
Welcome to Cassava Virus Evolution!
Molecular evolution of plant viruses occurs through a combination of point mutations, recombination and reassortment of viral genome components. These processes produce a high degree of variation that undergoes selection to generate a subset of viral variants well adapted to their plant hosts and efficiently transmitted by their insect vectors.
Learn more Photo Credit : J. Ascencio-Ibanez
Welcome to Cassava Virus Evolution!
Molecular evolution of plant viruses occurs through a combination of point mutations, recombination and reassortment of viral genome components. These processes produce a high degree of variation that undergoes selection to generate a subset of viral variants well adapted to their plant hosts and efficiently transmitted by their insect vectors.
Learn more Photo Credit : J. Ascencio-Ibanez
Welcome to Cassava Virus Evolution!
Molecular evolution of plant viruses occurs through a combination of point mutations, recombination and reassortment of viral genome components. These processes produce a high degree of variation that undergoes selection to generate a subset of viral variants well adapted to their plant hosts and efficiently transmitted by their insect vectors.
Learn more Photo Credit : J. Ascencio-Ibanez
Welcome to Cassava Virus Evolution!
Molecular evolution of plant viruses occurs through a combination of point mutations, recombination and reassortment of viral genome components. These processes produce a high degree of variation that undergoes selection to generate a subset of viral variants well adapted to their plant hosts and efficiently transmitted by their insect vectors.
Learn more Photo Credit : J. Ascencio-Ibanez
Alana Jacobson with Sara Obama, President Obama's grandmother
Our team and audience
Postdoc Will Sharpee looking for whiteflies on the backs of cassava leaves
George Kennedy collecting whiteflies
Postdoc Gaby Chavez on local transport
Whiteflies
All of our samples

Why prioritize the Cassava Mosaic Virus?

Cassava is a major food crop in Africa and Asia. Cassava can grow under drought, high temperature and poor soil conditions, but its production is severely limited by viral diseases. Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) is one of the most economically important crop diseases in Africa.
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MEET OUR TEAM

Linda Hanley-Bowdoin
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Biochemistry, North Carolina State University
George G. Kennedy
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Agriculture, North Carolina State University
Siobain Duffy
Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University
Alana Jacobson
Assistant Professsor in Entomology and Plant Pathology Faculty, Auburn University
Ignazio Carbone
Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University
José Trinidad Ascencio-Ibáñez
Teaching Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
Timothy A. Goodale
Assisant Professor, Coordinator MAT in STEM Education, North Carolina State University

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Whiteflies and Cassava Mosaic Virus

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