Contact
Professor Anders Kvarnheden
Group leader at the Kvarnheden lab
Department of Plant Biology, SLU
Telephone: 018-673337
E-mail: anders.kvarnheden@slu.se
Selected publications on molecular epidemiology of plant-infecting viruses from the Kvarnheden group can be found here.
Rojas MR, Macedo MA, Maliano MR, Soto-Aguilar M, Souza JO, Briddon RW, Kenyon LA, Rivera Bustamante RF, Zerbini FM, Adkins S, Legg JP, Kvarnheden A, Wintermantel WM, Sudarshana MR, Peterschmitt M, Lapidot M, Martin DP, Moriones E, Inoue-Nagata AK, Gilbertson RL: World management of geminiviruses. Annu Rev Phytopathol 56, in press (2018).
Mendoza-Figueroa JS, Kvarnheden A, Méndez-Lozano J, Rodríguez-Negrete E-A, Arreguín-Espinosa de los Monteros R, Soriano-García M: A peptide derived from enzymatic digestion of globulins from amaranth shows strong affinity binding to the replication origin of tomato yellow leaf curl virus reducing viral replication in Nicotiana benthamiana. Pestic Biochem Physiol 145: 56-65 (2018).
Just K, Arif U, Luik A, Kvarnheden A: Monitoring infection of tomato fruit by Tomato yellow leaf curl virus. Plant Pathol 66: 522-528 (2017).
Heydarnejad J, Kamali M, Massumi H, Kvarnheden A, Male MM, Kraberger S, Stainton D, Martin DP, Varsani A: Identification of a nanovirus-alphasatellite complex in Sophora alopecuroides. Virus Res 235: 24-32 (2017).
Kamali M, Heydarnejad J, Massumi H, Kvarnheden A, Kraberger S, Varsani A: Molecular diversity of turncurtoviruses in Iran. Arch Virol 161: 551-561 (2016).
Nygren J, Shad N, Kvarnheden A, Westerbergh A: Variation in susceptibility to Wheat dwarf virus among wild and domesticated wheat. PLoS One 10: e0121580 (2015).
Beuch U, Berlin S, Åkerblom J, Nicolaisen M, Nielsen SL, Crosslin JM, Hamm PB, Santala J, Valkonen JPT, Kvarnheden A: Diversity and evolution of potato mop-top virus. Arch Virol 160: 1345-1351 (2015).
Leke WN, Mignouna DB, Brown JK, Kvarnheden A: Begomovirus disease complex: Emerging threat to vegetable production systems of West and Central Africa. Agric Food Secur 4: 1 (2015).
Just K, Leke WN, Sattar MN, Luik A, Kvarnheden A: Detection of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus in imported tomato fruit in northern Europe. Plant Pathol 63: 1454-1460 (2014).
Beuch U, Persson P, Edin E, Kvarnheden A: Necrotic diseases caused by viruses in Swedish potato tubers. Plant Pathol 63: 667-674 (2014).
Leke WN, Kvarnheden A: Mixed infection by two West African tomato-infecting begomoviruses and Ageratum leaf curl Cameroon betasatellite in tomato in Cameroon. Arch Virol 159: 3145-3148 (2014).
Sattar MN, Kvarnheden A, Saeed M, Briddon RW: Cotton leaf curl disease – an emerging threat to cotton production worldwide. J Gen Virol 94: 695-710 (2013).
Leke WN, Sattar MN, Ngane EB, Ngeve JM, Kvarnheden A, Brown JK: Molecular characterization of begomoviruses and DNA satellites associated with okra leaf curl disease in Cameroon. Virus Res 174: 116-125 (2013).
Leke WN, Brown JK, Ligthart ME, Sattar N, Njualem D, Kvarnheden A: Ageratum conyzoides: a host to a unique begomovirus disease complex in Cameroon. Virus Res 163: 229-237 (2012).
Iqbal Z, Sattar MN, Kvarnheden A, Mansoor S, Briddon RW: Effects of the mutation of selected genes of Cotton leaf curl Kokhran virus on infectivity, symptoms and the maintenance of Cotton leaf curl Multan betasatellite. Virus Res 169: 107-116 (2012).
Roos J, Hopkins R, Kvarnheden A, Dixelius C: The impact of global warming on plant diseases and insect vectors in Sweden. Eur J Plant Pathol 129: 9-19 (2011).
Valasevich N, Kukharchyk N, Kvarnheden A: Molecular characterisation of Raspberry bushy dwarf virus isolates from Sweden and Belarus. Arch Virol 156: 369-374 (2011).
Leke WN, Kvarnheden A, Ngane EB, Titanji VPK, Brown JK: Molecular characterization of a new begomovirus and divergent alphasatellite from tomato in Cameroon. Arch Virol 156: 925-928 (2011).
Al Abdallat AM, Al Debei HS, Asmar H, Misbeh S, Quraan A, Kvarnheden A: An efficient in vitro inoculation method for Tomato yellow leaf curl virus. Virology J 7: 84 (2010).
Ramsell JNE, Boulton MI, Martin DP, Valkonen JPT, Kvarnheden A: Studies on the host range of the barley strain of Wheat dwarf virus using an agroinfectious viral clone. Plant Pathol 58: 1161-1169 (2009).
Reyes G, Ramsell JNE, Nyman M, Kvarnheden A: Sequence characterization of Dasheen mosaic virus isolates from cocoyam in Nicaragua. Arch Virol 154: 159-162 (2009).
Ramsell JNE, Lemmetty A, Jonasson J, Andersson A, Sigvald R, Kvarnheden A: Sequence analyses of Wheat dwarf virus isolates from different hosts reveal low genetic diversity within the wheat strain. Plant Pathol 57: 834-841 (2008).
Group leader at the Kvarnheden lab
Department of Plant Biology, SLU
Telephone: 018-673337
E-mail: anders.kvarnheden@slu.se