Johannes A. Jehle (born 1961, Illertissen, West Germany) is a German scientist for insect virology, and plant protection. The focus of his research is the use of microorganisms and viruses for biological control of insect pests and the development of sustainable methods for plant protection. He heads the Institute for Biological Plant Control of the Julius Kühn-Institut in Darmstadt and is an adjunct Professor at the Technical University Darmstadt. He was President of the Society of Invertebrate Pathology in 2016/2018.[1]
From 1994 to 1996 he was Marie-Curie Fellow at the Department of Virology of Wageningen University (the Netherlands) working with Prof. J. M. Vlak, before he moved to the plant protection service of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. From 1997 to 2009 he headed the research group Biotechnological Plant Protection at the Agricultural Service Centre in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, where he addressed safety issues related to genetic engineering of maize and grapes and improved methods for biological plant protection using microorganisms and insect viruses. Since 2010 he is director of the Institute for Biological Control of the Julius Kuehn Institute in Darmstadt.[2][3] In 2006, he obtained a postdoctoral degree (Dr. habil.) of Genetics at the University of Mainz, and since 2012 he is adjunct Professor at the TU Darmstadt.[4]
Jehle's scientific work aims to investigate, develop, and evaluate methods of biological control for organic and integrated farming. His research focus is on insect viruses, their classification and phylogeny, their use as biological plant protection agents, and research into baculovirus resistance. In 2008 he was honored for this work by the Society of Invertebrate Pathology with the Founders´ Lecturer Award. The results of this research culminated in over 200 scientific papers and book contributions.
Publications (selection)
Jehle, Johannes A.; Nickel, Antje; Vlak, Just M.; Backhaus, Horst (1998). "Horizontal Escape of the Novel Tc1-Like Lepidopteran Transposon TCp3.2 into Cydia pomonella Granulovirus". Journal of Molecular Evolution. 46 (2). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 215–224. Bibcode:1998JMolE..46..215J. doi:10.1007/pl00006296. ISSN0022-2844. PMID9452523. S2CID22563982.
Jehle, J. A.; Blissard, G. W.; Bonning, B. C.; Cory, J. S.; Herniou, E. A.; Rohrmann, G. F.; Theilmann, D. A.; Thiem, S. M.; Vlak, J. M. (2 May 2006). "On the classification and nomenclature of baculoviruses: A proposal for revision". Archives of Virology. 151 (7). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 1257–1266. doi:10.1007/s00705-006-0763-6. ISSN0304-8608. PMID16648963. S2CID6293565.
Asser-Kaiser, S.; Fritsch, E.; Undorf-Spahn, K.; Kienzle, J.; Eberle, K. E.; Gund, N. A.; Reineke, A.; Zebitz, C. P. W.; Heckel, D. G.; Huber, J.; Jehle, J. A. (28 September 2007). "Rapid Emergence of Baculovirus Resistance in Codling Moth Due to Dominant, Sex-Linked Inheritance". Science. 317 (5846). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 1916–1918. Bibcode:2007Sci...317.1916A. doi:10.1126/science.1146542. ISSN0036-8075. PMID17901332. S2CID39636105.
Nguyen, H. T.; Jehle, J. A. (2007). "Quantitative analysis of the seasonal and tissue-specific expression of Cry1Ab in transgenic maize Mon810". Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection. 114 (2). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 82–87. doi:10.1007/bf03356208. ISSN1861-3829. S2CID89552679.
Wang, Yongjie; Bininda-Emonds, Olaf R. P.; van Oers, Monique M.; Vlak, Just M.; Jehle, Johannes A. (6 March 2011). "The genome of Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus provides novel insight into the evolution of nuclear arthropod-specific large circular double-stranded DNA viruses". Virus Genes. 42 (3). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 444–456. doi:10.1007/s11262-011-0589-5. ISSN0920-8569. PMID21380757. S2CID17691779.
Lacey, Lawrence (2012). Manual of techniques in invertebrate pathology. Oxford New York: Academic Press imprint of Elsevier Science. ISBN978-0-12-386899-2. OCLC789131580.