BSc, PhD (University of the West Indies)

Lecturer

Email: marcia.roye@uwimona.edu.jm

Research Interest:

• Molecular biology and epidemiology of whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses infecting crops and weeds.
• Genetic recombination in geminiviruses infecting cabbage.

Selected Publications:

• Roye, Marcia E., Wayne A. McLaughlin, D. P. Maxwell, M. E. Wernecke and M. K. Nakhla. Tomato dwarf leaf curl virus, a new bipartite geminivirus associated with tomatoes and peppers in Jamaica and mixed infection with TYLCV. Plant Pathology 48 (1999): 370-78.
• Roye, Marcia E., Jodi Spence, Wayne A. McLaughlin and D. P. Maxwell. The common weed Macroptilium lathyroides is not a source of crop - infecting geminiviruses from Jamaica. Tropical Agriculture 76.4 (1999): 256-62.
• Roye, Marcia E., N. M. Henry, P. D. Burrell, W. A. McLaughlin, M. K Nakhla and D. P. Maxwell A new tomato - infecting Begomovirus in Barbados [Abstract]. Plant Disease 84 (2000): 1342.
• Roye, Marcia E., Wayne A. McLaughlin and D. P. Maxwell. The evolution of new virus genes: Interspecies recombination amoung two geminiviruses from Jamaica. Jamaica Journal of Science and Technology 11 (2000): 42 - 46.