Special Interest Group Meeting

Mycoviruses nomenclature

Organisers

Caoimhe Fleming-Archibald and Helen Grogan

Mycoviruses have been found in a wide range of fungal species across all the fungal families. Many have double-stranded RNA genomes and there is an increasing amount of sequence data being produced and molecular studies being undertaken. Homology between dsRNA mycovirus sequences to date has been limited and many show more similarity to plant dsRNA viruses than to other fungal viruses. Mycoviruses can be innocuous, pathogenic or induce hypovirulence of the host species.

This special interest group aims to enable discussion on the increasing information that is becoming available in areas such as taxonomy, epidemiology, gene expression effects within the host, viral transmission, and replication strategies.

10.10 - 10.35
Helen M. Grogan.
Unravelling the epidemiology of a new virus disease of mushrooms.

10.35 - 11.00
Caoimhe Fleming-Archibald, Angela Ruggiero, Mairead Kilpatrick & Helen M. Grogan.
Epidemiological studies of the factors influencing brown mushroom symptom expression associated with Mushroom Virus X.

11.00 – 11.25
Kerry Burton, Julian M. Green, Adam Baker and Daniel Eastwood.
Transcript profiling sheds new light on Mushroom Virus X disease.

11.25 - 11.50
Robert H. A. Coutts, Atif Jamal, Muhammad Faraz Bhatti and Elaine M.
Bignell.
Incidence and characterisation of mycovirusesdiscovered in the opportunist human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus.

12.00 – 12.30
General Discussion