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Peter McGrath : Photographer and Writer

Scientific Publications

For those of you who are interested in what I was up to before I turned to photography and writing as a career, here is a list of my scientific publications. Hopefully this will convince you that I can write about biotechnology and other science-related subjects.

Refereed papers:

McGRATH, P.F., BALE, J.S. and TONES, S.J. (1987)

Effects of sowing date and spray date on the incidence of cereal aphids and BYDV in winter barley.

Proceedings Crop Protection in Northern Britain, 1987, 105 -110.

McGRATH, P.F. and BALE, J.S. (1989)

Cereal aphids and the infectivity index for barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) in northern England.

Annals of Applied Biology, 114, 429-442.

McGRATH, P.F. and BALE, J.S. (1990)

The effects of sowing date and choice of insecticide on cereal aphids and barley yellow dwarf virus epidemiology in northern England.

Annals of Applied Biology, 117, 31-43.

FARGETTE, D., McGRATH, P.F., McNICOL, J., ATION, M.M. and HARRISON, B.D. (1989)

Multivariate analysis of antigenic variation among geminivirus isolates associated with cassava mosaic disease.

Proceedings of the IVth International Plant Virus Epidemiology Workshop, Montpellier, France, Sept. 1989, 280-283.

DENG, D., McGRATH, P.F., ROBINSON, D.J. and HARRISON, B.D. (1994).

Detection and differentiation of whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses in plants and vector insects by the polymerase chain reaction with degenerate primers.

Annals of Applied Biology, 125, 327 - 336.

FILICHKIN, S.A., LISTER, R.M., McGRATH, P.F. and YOUNG, M.J. (1994).

In vivo expression and mutational analysis of barley yellow dwarf virus readthrough gene.

Virology, 205, 290 - 299.

McGRATH, P.F. and HARRISON, B.D. (1995).

Transmission of tomato leaf curl geminiviruses by Bemisia tabaci: effects of virus isolate and vector biotype.

Annals of Applied Biology, 126, 307 - 316.

McGRATH, P.F., HUNTER, B.G. and LISTER, R.M. (1996)

A domain of the readthrough protein of barley yellow dwarf virus (NY-RPV isolate) is essential for aphid transmission.

European Journal of Plant Pathology, 102, 671 - 679.

McGRATH, P.F., BERTSCHINGER, L., SAARI, E.E. and LISTER, R.M (1996)

Unusual epitope profiles of barley yellow dwarf viruses from Asia.

Phytopathologia Mediterranea, 35, 169 - 176.

McGRATH, P.F., VINCENT, J.R., LEI, C.-H., LISTER, R.M., TORBERT, K., PAWLOWSKI, W., WAN, Y., LEMAUX, P.G., RINES, H and SOMERS, D.A. (1997)

Coat protein mediated resistance to isolates of barley yellow dwarf virus in oats and barley.

European Journal of Plant Pathology, 103, 695 - 710.

Database submission

McGRATH, P.F.

Maize streak monogeminivrus.

Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International Crop Protection Compendium for South-East Asia.

Reports and Abstracts

HARRISON, B.D., SWANSON, M.M., McGRATH, P.F. and FARGETTE, D. (1990)

Patterns of antigenic variation in whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses.

Annual Report, Scottish Crop Research Institute, 1990, 88-90.

McGRATH, P.F., SWANSON, M.M., N'GUESSAN, K.P., DENG, D., DUNCAN, G.H., ROBINSON, D.J. and HARRISON, B.D. (1991)

Okra leaf curl virus: a whitefly transmitted geminivirus from west Africa.

Annual Report, Scottish Crop Research Institute, 1991, 85-87.

McGRATH, P.F. and HARRISON, B.D. (1990)

Geographical variation of isoenzyme patterns in the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci.

Abstract: Association of Applied Biologists Anniversary Meeting, 12-14 Dec. 1990,

University of Bath, p47.

McGRATH, P.F. and HARRISON, B.D. (1991)

Detection of okra leaf curl virus in its whitefly vector using penicillinase -based ELISA.

Abstract: New Technology for Cropping Systems, AAB Meeting, 17-18 Sept. 1991, University of York.

McGRATH, P.F., DENG, D., ROBINSON, D.J. and HARRISON, B.D. (1992)

Bemisia tabaci: biotypes, vector specificity and virus detection in single insects.

Abstract: Plant Virology in the Tropics, AAB Meeting, 9-10 April 1992, University of York.

O'DOHERTY, R., McGRATH, P.F. and BYRNE, F. (1992)

A whitefly-transmitted geminivirus disease complex in Belize, Central America.

Abstract: Plant Virology in the Tropics, AAB Meeting, 9-10 April 1992, University of York.

HARRISON, B.D., SWANSON, M.M. and McGRATH, P.F. (1992)

Wild species in the environment as hosts of whitefly transmitted geminiviruses.

Abstract: Viruses, Vectors and the Environment. Vth International Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium, International Society for Plant Pathology, Valenzano (Bari), Italy, 27-31 July 1992, p123.

HONG, Y., FARGETTE, D., SWANSON, M.M., McGRATH, P.F. and HARRISON, B.D (1993)

Sequence and epitope variation among coat proteins of tomato leaf curl geminiviruses from different regions.

Abstract: IXth International Congress of Virology, Glasgow 8-13 Aug. 1993. p105.

VINCENT, J.R., McGRATH, P.F., LISTER, R.M., LARKINS, B.A. and SOMERS, D. (1994)

Genetically engineered resistance to barley yellow dwarf virus: A progress report

Abstract: Oat Biotechnology Conference, Chicago, IL., 31 Jan - 1 Feb 1994.

FILICHKIN, S.A., LISTER, R.M., McGRATH, P.F. and YOUNG, M.J. (1994).

Mutational analysis of the barley yellow dwarf virus readthrough gene.

Abstract: American Society of Virology, 13th Annual Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, July 9 - 13, 1994. p219.

LISTER, R.M., VINCENT, J.R., LEI, C-H, McGRATH, P.F., LARKINS, B.A., TORBERT, K.A., PAWLOWSKI, W.P., RINES, H.R. and SOMERS, D.A. (1994)

Coat protein mediated resistance to barley yellow dwarf virus in oats.

Abstract: Phytopathology, 84, 117.

LISTER, R.M., VINCENT, J.R, McGRATH, P.F., LEMAUX, P.G. and WAN, Y. (1994)

Coat protein mediated resistance to barley yellow dwarf virus in barley.

Abstract: Phytopathology, 84, 117.

BROWN, J.K., WYATT, S.D., BANKS, G.K., McGRATH, P.F., IDRIS, A.I., PARKER, P. and BIRD, J. (1996).

DNA sequence database for whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses from the US, Mexico, and the Caribbean Basin.

Abstract: Silverleaf Whitefly - 1996 Supplement to the Five Year National Research and Action Plan. San Antonio, TX, January 1996.

McGRATH, P.F., CRAIG, W. and BROWN, J.K. (1997)

Whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses of cotton: An international problem.

Abstract: Silverleaf Whitefly - 1997 Supplement to the Five Year National Research and Action Plan. San Diego, CA, January 1997.

CRAIG, W., McGRATH, P.F., TORRES-JERES, I., WYATT, S.D., STENGER, D. and BROWN, J.K. (1997)

Host range, whitefly transmission and PCR detection of squash leaf curl geminivirus strains and isolates.

Abstract: Silverleaf Whitefly - 1997 Supplement to the Five Year National Research and Action Plan. San Diego, CA, January 1997.

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