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Dr. Mike AdamsRetired Principal Investigator Honorary Professor, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China |
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The main aims were to investigate the mechanism of virus transmission, the epidemiology and control of the diseases, the variability in the virus genomes and the biology and ecology of the vector (traditionally regarded as a fungus but now often classified as a protist). This work was funded by BBSRC, DEFRA, H-GCA and the EU. The members of the team were:
In collaboration with Dr John Antoniw, and arising from our work on the AAB Descriptions of Plant Viruses, a comprehensive sequence database for plant (and some other) viruses has been created and software is being developed to exploit this resource. Full details of the CD-ROM marketed by AAB and the related web resources can be found on the DPV Web pages. I also act as advisor on plant viruses to the NCBI RefSeq project and am the Plant virus Subcommittee Chair for the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). This work is continuing despite my retirement.
This work is part of a very productive collaboration with Prof Dr Chen Jianping and colleagues at the Zhejang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China. Molecular and biological characterisation and phylogenetic analyses are identifying viruses of many crops in China, particularly those from the genera Potyvirus and Carlavirus. A full list of our joint publications can be found here.
| The barley mosaic viruses are usually first noticed in the winter or early spring as yellow patches in the crop. This field had a mixture of both Barley yellow mosaic virus (BaYMV) and Barley mild mosaic virus (BaMMV). |  |
| The typical mosaic symptoms on the younger leaves are shown in this picture. |  |
| Barley mosaic viruses can be effectively controlled using resistant varieties as this photograph from a BaYMV trial in Gloucestershire, UK, shows dramatically. |  |
| Composite aerial photograph of the same trial taken by Dr Vick Jordan using a model aeroplane. |  |
| By flowering, symptoms of the mosaic viruses are usually difficult to find but crops can remain stunted as this picture illustrates. Severe infection by the mosaic viruses can result in yield losses of 30% or more. |  |
| Light micrograph of a typical, irregularly lobed, zoosporangium of Polymyxa graminis in a barley root cell (stained with trypan blue). |  |
| Light- and electron- micrographs showing the resting spore clusters ("cystosori") of Polymyxa graminis. |  |
Original research papers
| SHI, Y.-H., HONG, X.-Y., CHEN, J., ADAMS, M.J., ZHENG, H.-Y., LIN, L., QING, B.-X. & CHEN, J.-P. (2005). Further molecular characterisation of potyviruses infecting aroid plants for medicinal use in China. Archives of Virology, 150, 125-135. | |
| WARD, E., KANYUKA, K., MOTTERAM, J., KORNYUKHIN, D. & ADAMS, M.J. (2005). The use of conventional and quantitative real-time PCR assays for Polymyxa graminis to examine host plant resistance, inoculum levels and intraspecific variation. New Phytologist 165, 875-885. | |
| ADAMS , M.J., ANTONIW, J.F., & FAUQUET, C.M. (2005). Molecular criteria for genus and species discrimination within the family Potyviridae. Archives of Virology 150, 459-479. | |
| CHEN, J., SHI, Y.-H., ADAMS , M.J. & CHEN, J.-P. (2005). The complete sequence of the genomic RNA of Lily virus X (genus Potexvirus ). Archives of Virology 150, 825-832. | |
| WEI, C.-B., CHEN, J., ZHANG, Q.-Y., SHI, Y.-H., LIN, L., ZHENG, H.-Y., ADAMS, M.J. & CHEN, J.-P. (2005). A new potyvirus from Thunberg fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii Miq.) in Zhejiang, China. Archives of Virology 150, 1271-1280. | |
| CHEN, J., WEI, C.-B., ZHENG, H.-Y., SHI, Y.-H., ADAMS, M.J., LIN, L., ZHANG, Q.-Y., WANG, S.-J. & CHEN, J.-P. (2005). Characterisation of the welsh onion isolate of Shallot yellow stripe virus from China. Archives of Virology, 150, 2091-2099. | |
| KANYUKA, K., DRUKA, A., CALDWELL, D.G., TYMON, A., McCALLUM, N., WAUGH, R. & ADAMS, M.J. (2005). Evidence that the recessive bymovirus resistance locus rym4 in barley corresponds to the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E gene. Molecular Plant Pathology 6, 449-458. | |
| ADAMS, M.J., ANTONIW, J.F. & BEAUDOIN, F. (2005). Overview and analysis of the polyprotein cleavage sites in the family Potyviridae. Molecular Plant Pathology 6, 471-487. | |
| ADAMS, M.J. & ANTONIW, J.F. (2006). DPVweb: a comprehensive database of plant and fungal virus genes and genomes. Nucleic Acids Research 34, Database issue, D382-D385. | |
| CHEN, J., ZHENG, H.-Y., SHI, Y.-H., ADAMS, M.J., WEI, C.-B., LIN, L. & CHEN, J.-P. (2006). Detection and characterisation of a second potyvirus from Thunberg fritillary in China. Archives of Virology 151, 439-447. | |
| BASS, C., HENDLEY, R., ADAMS , M.J., HAMMOND-KOSACK, K. & KANYUKA, K. (2006). The Sbm1 locus conferring resistance to Soil-borne cereal mosaic virus maps to a gene-rich region on 5DL in wheat. Genome 49, 1140-1148. | |
| ZHENG, H.-Y., CHEN, J., ADAMS , M.J. & CHEN, J.-P. (2006). Complete nucleotide sequence and affinities of the genomic RNA of Narcissus common latent virus (genus Carlavirus ). Archives of Virology 151, 1667-1672. | |
| CHEN, J., SHENG, J.-L., LU Y.-W., SHI, Y.-H., ADAMS, M.J. & CHEN, J.-P (2006). Complete nucleotide sequence of the genomic RNA of Narcissus yellow stripe virus from Chinese narcissus in Zhangzhou city, China. Archives of Virology 151, 1673-1677. | |
| CHEN, J., LU, Y.-W., SHI, Y.-H., ADAMS, M.J. & CHEN, J.-P. (2006). Narcissus symptomless virus: a new carlavirus of daffodils. Archives of Virology 151, 2261-2267. | |
| CHEN, J., SHI, Y.-H., ADAMS, M.J., QIN, B.-X. & CHEN, J.-P. (2007). Characterisation of an isolate of Narcissus degeneration virus from Chinese narcissus (Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis). Archives of Virology 152, 441-448. | |
| FRANCIS, S.A., RODEN, B.C., ADAMS, M.J., WEILAND, J. & ASHER M.J.C. (2007). Comparison of ITS sequences from British and American sugar-beet powdery mildews and the designation of Erysiphe betae. Mycological Research 111, 204-212. | |
| McGRANN, G.R.D., MARTIN, L.D., KINGSNORTH, C.S., ASHER, M.J.C., ADAMS, M.J. & MUTASA-GÖTTGENS, E.S. (2007). Screening for genetic elements involved in the non-host response of sugar beet to the plasmodiophorid cereal root parasite Polymyxa graminis by representational difference analysis. Journal of General Plant Pathology 73, 260-265. | |
| ZHANG, H.-M., YANG, J., XIN, X., CHEN, J.-P. & ADAMS, M.J. (2007). Molecular characterization of the largest and smallest genome segments, S1 and S12, of Rice gall dwarf virus. Virus Genes 35, 815-823. | |
| ZHANG, H.-M., YANG, J., XIN, X., CHEN, J.-P. & ADAMS, M.J. (2007). Molecular characterization of the genome segments, S4, S6 and S7 of Rice gall dwarf virus. Archives of Virology 152, 1593-1602. | |
| ZHANG, H.-M., YANG, J., SUN, H.-R., XIN, X., CHEN, J.-P. & ADAMS, M.J. (2007). Genomic analysis of Rice stripe virus Zhejiang isolate shows the presence of an OTU-like domain in the protein encoded by RNA1 and a novel sequence motif conserved within the intergenic regions of ambisense segments of tenuiviruses. Archives of Virology 152, 1917-1923. | |
| SHI, Y.-H., CHEN, J., HONG, X.-Y., ZHENG, H.-Y., CHEN, J.-P. & ADAMS, M.J. (2007). A potyvirus P1 protein interacts with the Rieske Fe/S protein of its host. Molecular Plant Pathology 8, 785-790. | |
| LU, Y.-W., CHEN, J., ZHENG, H.-Y., ADAMS, M.J. & CHEN, J.-P. (2008). Serological relationships amongst the over-expressed coat proteins of allexiviruses. Journal of Phytopathology 156, 251-255. | |
| CHEN, J., SHI, Y.-H., LI, M.-Y., ADAMS, M.J. & CHEN, J.-P. (2008). A new potyvirus from butterfly flower (Iris japonica Thunb.) in Zhejiang, China. Archives of Virology 153, 567-569. | |
| WANG, H.-D., CHEN, J.-P., ZHANG, H.-M., SUN, X.-L., ZHU, J.-L., WANG, A.-G., SHENG, W.-X. & ADAMS M.J. (2008). A survey of recent rice stripe virus epidemics in Zhejiang province, China, and experiments on sowing date, disease-yield loss relationships and the susceptibility of rice seedlings. Plant Disease 92, 1190-1196. | |
| ZHANG, H.-M., XIN, X., YANG, J, CHEN, J.-P., WANG, J.-M. & ADAMS, M.J. (2008). Completion of the sequence of Rice gall dwarf virus from Guangxi, China. Archives of Virology 153, 1737-1741. | |
| ZHANG, H.-M., YANG, J, CHEN, J.-P. & ADAMS, M.J. (2008). A black-streaked dwarf disease on rice in China is caused by a novel fijivirus. Archives of Virology 153, 1893-1898. | |
| YAN, F., PENG, J.-J., LU, Y.-W., LIN, L., ZHENG, H.-Y., CHEN, H.-R., CHEN, J.-P. & ADAMS, M.J. (2009). Identification of novel splice variants of the Arabidopsis DCL2 gene. Plant Cell Reports 28, 241-246. | |
| LIN, L., SHI, Y.-H., LUO, Z.-P., LU, Y.W., ZHENG, H.-Y., YAN, F., CHEN, J., CHEN, J.-P., ADAMS, M.J. & WU, Y.-F. (2009). Protein-protein interactions in two potyviruses using the yeast two-hybrid system. Virus Research 142, 36-40. | |
| YAN, F., PENG, J.-J., LU, Y.-W., LIN, L., ZHENG, H.-Y., CHEN, H.-R., CHEN, J.-P. & ADAMS, M.J. (2009). Molecular cloning and characterization of the Dicer-like 2 gene from Brassica rapa. Molecular Biology Reports, 36, 1283-1289. | |
| WANG, H.-D., CHEN, J.-P., WANG, A.-G., JIANG, X-H. & ADAMS, M.J. (2009). Studies on the epidemiology and yield losses from rice black-streaked dwarf disease in a recent epidemic in Zhejiang province, China. Plant Pathology 58, 815-825. | |
| WANG, J.-G., ZHOU, X.-J., ZHENG, H.-Y., ADAMS, M.J., CHEN, H.-R., & CHEN, J.-P. (2009). Molecular characterization of a new macluravirus from yam in Yunnan, China. Archives of Virology 154, 1379-1380. | |
| ADAMS, M.J., ANTONIW, J.F. & KREUZE, J. (2009). Virgaviridae: a new family of rod-shaped plant viruses. Archives of Virology 154, 1967 - 1972. | |
| WANG, J.-G., ZHENG, H.-Y., CHEN, H.-R., ADAMS, M.J., & CHEN, J.-P. (2009). Molecular diversities of Sugarcane mosaic virus and Sorghum mosaic virus isolates from Yunnan province, China. Journal of Phytopathology, in press. |
Book chapters and reviews
ADAMS, M.J. & ANTONIW, J.F. (2005). Membrane proteins in plant viruses. In: Viral membrane proteins: structure, function, drug design. Ed. W. Fisher. Kluwer, 3-19.
BERGER, P.H., ADAMS, M.J., BARNETT, O.W., BRUNT, A.A., HAMMOND, J., HILL, J.H., JORDAN, R.L., KASHIWAZAKI, S., RYBICKI, E., SPENCE, N., STENGER, D.C., OHKI, S.T., UYEDA, I., VAN ZAAYEN, A. VALKONEN, J. & VETTEN, H.J. (2005). Potyviridae. In: Virus Taxonomy, VIIIth Report of the ICTV (Eds C.M. Fauquet, M.A. Mayo, J. Maniloff, U. Desselberger, & L.A. Ball), pp. 819-841. Elsevier/Academic Press, London.
ADAMS, M.J., ACCOTTO, G.P., AGRANOVSKY, A.A., BAR-JOSEPH, M., BOSCIA, D., BRUNT A.A., CANDRESSE, T., COUTTS, R.H.A., DOLJA, V.V., FALK, B.W., FOSTER, G.D., GONSALVES, D., JELKMANN, W., KARASEV, A., MARTELLI G.P., MAWASSI, M., MILNE, R.G., MINAFRA, A., NAMBA, S., ROWHANI A., VETTEN, H.J., VISHNICHENKO, V.K., WISLER, G.C., YOSHIKAWA, N. & ZAVRIEV, S.K. (2005). Flexiviridae. In: Virus Taxonomy, VIIIth Report of the ICTV (Eds C.M. Fauquet, M.A. Mayo, J. Maniloff, U. Desselberger, & L.A. Ball), pp. 1089-1124. Elsevier/Academic Press, London.
ADAMS, M.J. (2007). Obligate zoosporic root colonizers. In: Compendium of wheat diseases, 3rd Edition, ed W. W. Bockus. St Paul, Minnesota, USA: APS press, in press.
ADAMS, M.J. (2008). Flexiviruses. In: Encyclopedia of Virology, Third Edition, Eds. B. W. J. Mahy & M. H. V. van Regenmortel Vol 2, pp. 253-259. Oxford: Elsevier.
DPV Web
This site contains a virtually complete on-line version of the DPV program and much more. In addition to the individual virus descriptions, there is extensive taxonomic coverage (all viruses except those with a double-stranded DNA genome), classified lists of plant virus sequences and a new sequence database and software for rapid access to viral gene sequences and subsequent analyses. Details of the stand-alone CD-ROM version marketed by AAB can also be found on this site.