Kunzwisisa kukuru kweiyo biology yeimwe yeanonyanya kuparadza hutachiona hwezvirimwa mbatatisi ndiyo ichave tarisiro yenzvimbo yekutsvagisa paUniversity yeMaine inova chikamu chedhora idzva remamiriyoni matanhatu emadhora rakanangana nehutachiona uye simba rehutachiona, Yunivhesiti inoti mu news release.

National Science Foundation yakapihwa rubatsiro kuYunivhesiti yeA Arkansas kuti iise iyo Host-Virus Evolutionary Dynamics Institute. Hub saiti ichave iri kuYunivhesiti yeMaine, yunivhesiti yeA Arkansas kuPine Bluff, Ouachita Baptist University uye Universidad Interamericana muPuerto Rico.

Masayendisiti anoongorora akawanda hutachiona masisitimu kumatunhu ese ehupenyu - Bacteria, Archaea neEukarya. Chinangwa ndechekumisikidza yakakosha "mitemo yehupenyu," kana mitemo yehutachiona, iyo inoshanda kune ese mavhairasi - kana angangoita akakura seti ehutachiona masystem.

Sangano rinotungamirwa naRuben Michael Ceballos, mutevedzeri purofesa muDhipatimendi reBiological Sayenzi paUniversity yeA Arkansas, achishanda pamwe chete neboka revatambi vezvemagariro, ma virologist, ecologystem ecologist uye masvomhu. Iyo UMaine hub inotungamirwa naE.Han Tan, mutevedzeri purofesa wezvirimwa genetics.

UMaine will receive more than $446,800 to fund research led by Tan and Peter Nelson, forestry ecology director at the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park. Their research team will use hyperspectral methods to study Potato Virus Y (PVY), strains of which in Maine and elsewhere result in severe losses in crop yield. The researchers will also use genomic tools at UMaine’s Maine Center for Genetics in the Environment to study PVY in potatoes. 

“Not only will our research test a novel method to detect PVY-infected potato, which costs the potato industry substantial amounts of money for lab testing each year, we hope to better understand the arms race between PVY and potato which will be integrated with other viral systems under investigation at this institute,” says Tan.

Tan muchengeti wemubatsiri pane NSF rubatsiro, pamwe nevamwe vatungamiriri: Anissa Buckner, purofesa uye sachigaro weDhipatimendi reBiology paYunivhesiti yeA Arkansas kuPine Bluff; Nathan Reyna, purofesa anofambidzana kuOuachita Baptist University; naElizabeth Padilla, purofesa anobatsira kuLa Universidad Interamericana.

Vatsvagiri kuHost-Virus Evolutionary Dynamics Institute vanoongorora nzira dzakasiyana dzehutachiona kumatunhu ese ehupenyu, yakadaro University yeA Arkansas mukati mayo. news release kuzivisa iyo NSF mubairo. Nepo hutachiona hunowanikwa munzvimbo dzese dzehupenyu, kusiyana kweiyo virosphere kunounza dambudziko mukumisa mitemo yepasirese inotevedzwa nemavhairasi ese. 

Uchishandisa nzira yakajairika yekuyedza, data kubva kuongororo dzehutachiona hwehurongwa huchaenzaniswa uye hwakabatanidzwa kugadzira Mitemo yeHupenyu inotyaira akasiyana-siyana senge mhando kusvetuka, hutachiona hwekutakura nyika, shanduko mukutapurirana uye kubuda kwehutachiona hwakanyanya. Mitemo yeHupenyu ndeimwe yeNational Science Foundation's Mazano Makuru yekutsvagisa kwekutsvagisa iyo inozoshandira iro ramangwana rerudzi.

"Nekudzidza hutachiona mumatatata tichishandisa manhamba ekuenzanisira ezvekufungisisa, tinogona kupa nzira yekuona nekukurumidza uye nekugadzirisa kuputika kwehutachiona," anodaro Nelson, anova mumwe wevashandi vechikoro muMaine's School of Forest Resources.