An introduction into practical plant Virology

• Grant number: 22/10755-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Program to Stimulate Scientific Vocations
• Start date: January 04, 2023
• End date: February 23, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Plant Health
• Principal Investigator: Elliot Watanabe Kitajima
• Grantee: Jandson José do Vale Guimarães
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This proposal is aimed to the scientific initiation of Jandson José do Vale Guimarães, undergratute student of agronomy of Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará- IFPA (in his 4th year), on plant virology. It is expected that Jandson would receive basic information on plant virology by oriented readings and practical exercices, during his 7-8 weeks of training in the Electron Microscope Laboratory of the Departamento de Fitopatologia and Nematologia, Agricultura College (ESALQ) of the Universidade de São Paulo, campus Piracicaba.Practical activities would include field surveys to identify cases of viral diseases on cultivated plants (vegetable, fruit, ornamental crops, cereals, etc.) and spontaneous vegetation, based on symptomatology; sample collection; assays to detect and identify possible viruses in the samples (mechanical, graft, vector transmission, imune and molecular assays, eléctron microscopy. At the end of the training period the trainee should prepare a detailed report of the developed activities. (AU)