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Scotland (UK)

Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA). The Scottish Government

National Plant Protection Organisation. Certification Agency. SASA is A Division of the Scottish Government Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate, our primary role is to provide scientific services and advice in support of Scotland’s agriculture and wider environment. Although much of our work is in support of arable agriculture we also provide services in food safety, wildlife management and crime whilst providing specialist advice to Scottish Ministers.

SASA’s remit: https://www.sasa.gov.uk/

Ensuring the quality of seeds and tubers, and new crop varieties;
Keeping field and horticultural crops free of damaging diseases;
Keeping serious pests of plants out of the UK and Scotland;
Acting as the Scottish Government's Inspectorate of genetically-modified crops;
Developing new and sensitive diagnostic tests for pests and diseases;
Preserving and maintaining a wide range of historic, heritage and other varieties of potatoes, cereals, peas and brassicas;
Monitoring the pesticide load in our diet, and the pattern of use of pesticides in Scotland;
Protecting wildlife against deliberate or accidental poisoning;
Understanding the ecology of important vertebrate species

Contact

Christophe Lacomme (Head of the team)

Email: Christophe.Lacomme@sasa.gsi.gov.uk

Tel.: +44 (0)131 244 8916

Team

Three Full Time Staff

Missions of the team

Study and diagnosis of potato-infecting viruses. Molecular biology/virology. Epidemiology of potato-infecting viruses. Virus transmission. Virus species and strains population dynamics. Diagnosis of viruses using a range of approaches. The team is involved in several projects:

COST action FA1407: Application of of next generation sequencing for the study and diagnosis of plant viral diseases in agriculture.
Aphids and virus transmission in seed potato crop. AHDB Project R428
Evaluating the effectiveness of mineral oils in minimising the spread of non-persistent viruses in potato seed crops in GB. AHDB project R449
Host of numerous short term fellowships, BSc students, PhD studentship. Numerous external examination of PhD thesis.
Member of the editorial board of Journal of Virological Methods.
UK representative on the EPPO panel of Diagnosis in Virology & Phytoplasmology

Skills

Detection and identification of viruses
Bioassays
ELISA
PCR-based diagnosis
high-throughput real-time PCR
Digital droplet PCR
LAMP
Sanger sequencing
Implementation of deep sequencing technologies

ISO 17025 accredited laboratory

Selected publications

Lacomme C, Bellstedt D, Karasev A, Jacquot E, Glais L, Dupuis B. (2017). Potato virus Y: biodiversity, pathogenicity, epidemiology and management. Book review. Lacomme C et al eds. Springer. In press.
Davie K, Holmes R, Pickup J, Lacomme C. (2017). Dynamics of PVY strains in field grown potato: impact of strain competition and ability to overcome host resistance mechanisms. Virus Research. In press.
Massart S, Candresse T, Gil J, Lacomme C, Predajna L, Ravnikar M, Reynard J-S, Rumbou A, Saldarelli P, Škorić D, Vainio E, Valkonen JPT, Vandershuren H, Varveri C, Wetzel T.. (2017). A Framework for the Evaluation of Biosecurity, Commercial, Regulatory, and Scientific Impacts of Plant Viruses and Viroids Identified by NGS Technologies. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8:45.
Roenhorst JW,Lacomme C, Nisbet C, Leichtfried T, Menzel W, Winter S, van der Vlugt RAA. (2017). Euphresco project VirusCollect - fulfilling the need for a common collection of plant viruses and viroids for reference. EPPO Bulletin. 47(1):41–47.
Tilsner J, Linnik O, Wright KM, Bell K, Roberts AG, Lacomme C, Santa Cruz S, Oparka KJ. (2012). The TGB1 movement protein of Potato virus X reorganizes actin and endomembranes into the X-body, a viral replication factory. Plant Physiol. 158(3):1359-70.