Dr Adrian Fox leads the Plant Virology team at Fera Science Ltd, York, UK, the National Reference Laboratory for Plant Health in England and Wales. He has over 25 years’ experience in regulatory plant virus diagnostics. In addition to delivering regulatory and commercial virus diagnostics, the research of the group includes applying novel diagnostic techniques to improve the detection and diagnosis of plant viruses, and investigating the epidemiology and management of novel and emerging viruses of field vegetables and protected edibles. He is a member of the International Committee on Plant Virus Epidemiology and the EPPO panel on diagnostics in virology.
Adrian has co-authored several international diagnostic standards and scientific opinions, including EPPO standard for the detection of tomato brown rugose fruit virus, and the EFSA scientific opinion on the risk of pospiviroids to the EU. With over 100 publications including research papers, reviews, book chapters, and disease records, he gained his PhD by published works in 2019.