Zhibo Hamborg
Research Scientist
Biography
Zhibo Hamborg is a plant virologist working on plant viruses and viroids. Her work focuses on the detection, management and control of plant viruses and viroids, including interactions between plants, viruses and their vectors.
She works with the development and maintenance of virus- and viroid-free plant material using tissue culture and virus elimination methods. This work covers several plant species, including potato, fruit and berry crops, Allium species and other vegetatively propagated plants. She also works with cryopreservation of healthy plant material and plant genetic resources for long-term storage.
She is responsible for the National Clonal Bank for Potato and works with the conservation of potato genetic resources.
In addition, she has experience in the study of mycoviruses and their potential use in biological control of plant pathogens, and she uses high-throughput sequencing (HTS) for virus and viroid detection and characterization.
Authors
Jingwei Li Min-Rui Wang Zhibo Hamborg Dag-Ragnar Blystad Gayle Volk Jean Carlos Bettoni QiaoChun WangAbstract
Rapid population growth poses a major challenge to global food security. Promoting sustainable agricultural production is necessary to ensure the global food security. Horticultural plants are a high-valued part in agricultural production. Virus and viroid diseases have long been a key factor limiting the horticultural production. Cultivation and distribution of pathogen-free plants is currently the most efficient practice for managing virus and viroid diseases, and their spread in the landscape. Cryotherapy-based methods are recently developed novel biotechnologies for the efficient production of pathogen-free plants. This review outlines updated information on the development and advances in cryotherapy-based methods for efficiently eradicating viruses and viroids in horticultural plants. Mechanisms underlining cryotherapy-based methods for improved pathogen eradication are discussed, and suggestions for further studies are proposed.
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