Josef Spak

Employment

• Biology Centre Head Virology Department, Director/deputy director of the Institute/research leader/prof.
  1988 - Present

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Publications (120)

• Raspberry Viruses in the Czech Republic, with Identification of a Novel Virus: Raspberry Virus A
  Viruses 2025 DOI: 10.3390/v17121597
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• High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals Apple Virome Diversity and Novel Viruses in the Czech Republic
  Viruses 2025 DOI: 10.3390/v17050650
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• Streamlining Global Germplasm Exchange: Integrating Scientific Rigor and Common Sense to Exclude Phantom Agents from Regulation
  Ioannis E. Tzanetakis, Vicken Aknadibossian, Josef Špak +97 more
  Plant Disease 2025 DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-04-24-0745-FE
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• Genomic Sequence of a Czech Isolate of Erysimum Latent Virus from Sisymbrium altissimum
  Plants 2024 DOI: 10.3390/plants13182554
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• Molecular Characterization of a Novel Enamovirus Infecting Raspberry
  Viruses 2023 DOI: 10.3390/v15122281
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• Cadmium and Zn hyperaccumulation provide efficient constitutive defense against Turnip yellow mosaic virus infection in Noccaea caerulescens
  Plant Science 2023 DOI: 10.1016/J.PLANTSCI.2023.111864
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• Elimination of Solanum nigrum ilarvirus 1 and Apple Hammerhead Viroid from Apple Cultivars Using Antivirals Ribavirin, Rimantadine, and Zidovudine
  Viruses 2023 DOI: 10.3390/V15081684
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• High throughput sequencing testing of certified apple M9 rootstocks
  Acta Horticulturae 2023 DOI: 10.17660/ACTAHORTIC.2023.1378.51
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• The Expanding Menagerie of Prunus-Infecting Luteoviruses
  Phytopathology 2023 DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-06-22-0203-R
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• Detection of Apple Hammerhead Viroid, Apple Luteovirus 1 and Citrus Concave Gum-Associated Virus in Apple Propagation Materials and Orchards in the Czech Republic and Hungary
  Viruses 2022 DOI: 10.3390/V14112347
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• Mixed Infection of Blackcurrant with a Novel Cytorhabdovirus and Black Currant-Associated Nucleorhabdovirus
  Viruses 2022 DOI: 10.3390/V14112456
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• Genomic analysis of the brassica pathogen turnip mosaic potyvirus reveals its spread along the former trade routes of the Silk Road
  Shusuke Kawakubo, Fangluan Gao, Shifang Li

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  • Zhongyang Tan
  • Ying‐Kun Huang
  • Charith Raj Adkar‐Purushothama
  • Chennappa Gurikar
  • Phoowanarth Maneechoat
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  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021 DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2021221118
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• Graft-Transmissible Diseases of Ribes - Pathogens, Impact, and Control
  Plant Disease 2021 DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-04-20-0759-FE
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• Comparison of the incidence of viruses within germplasm, orchards and wild cherry trees in the Czech Republic
  Annals of Applied Biology 2020 DOI: 10.1111/AAB.12577
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• Complete genome sequence of a mite-associated virus obtained by high-throughput sequencing analysis of an apple leaf sample
  Archives of Virology 2020 DOI: 10.1007/S00705-020-04620-8
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• Genomic characterization of Malus domestica virus A (MdoVA), a novel velarivirus infecting apple
  Archives of Virology 2020 DOI: 10.1007/S00705-019-04478-5
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• Interaction Between Zn Deficiency, Toxicity and Turnip Yellow Mosaic Virus Infection inNoccaea ochroleucum
  Frontiers in Plant Science 2020 DOI: 10.3389/FPLS.2020.00739
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• Ribes-infecting viruses - how many and how harmful are they?
  Acta Horticulturae 2020 DOI: 10.17660/ACTAHORTIC.2020.1277.57
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• "Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris" and "Candidatus Phytoplasma mali" strains infecting sweet and sour cherry in the Czech Republic
  Journal of Phytopathology 2018 DOI: 10.1111/JPH.12661
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• Identification and molecular characterization of a novel varicosa-like virus from red clover
  Archives of Virology 2018 DOI: 10.1007/S00705-018-3838-2
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