Johannes A. Jehle

Johannes Alois Jehle (* 1961 in Illertissen ) is a German biologist, insect virologist and phytomedicist .

His main research interests are the use of microorganisms and viruses for the biological control of harmful insects and the development of sustainable methods of plant protection. He heads the Institute for Biological Plant Protection at the Julius Kühn Institute in Darmstadt and is an adjunct professor at the TU Darmstadt . He was President of the Society of Invertebrate Pathology in 2016/2018.

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Jehle obtained his Abitur in 1980 at the college of the school brothers in Illertissen. After studying biology at the University of Munich and the University of Göttingen with a focus on botany , phytopathology and statistics, he conducted a six-month field study on indigenous medicinal plants and healing methods in West Africa. From 1989 to 1993 he completed a postgraduate course in phytomedicine at the University of Göttingen and worked on his dissertation ("Safety aspects of genetic engineering : Relationship and variability of the genomes of Cryptophlebia leucotrata granulovirus and Cydia pomonella granulovirus") at the Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry in Braunschweig. His doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. took place in 1994 at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

From 1994 to 1996 he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Virology at the University of Wageningen (Netherlands) with JM Vlak before joining the Plant Protection Service of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate . At the Rural Service Center in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , he headed the Biotechnological Plant Protection working group from 1997 to 2009 , which dealt with safety issues in genetic engineering and the development of biological plant protection processes. Jehle has headed the Institute for Biological Plant Protection at the Julius Kühn Institute in Darmstadt since 2010. In 2006 he completed his habilitation in genetics at the University of Mainz and has been an adjunct professor at the TU Darmstadt since 2012.

Engagements (selection)

Member of the German Phytomedical Society eV (DPG)
Member of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology (DGaaE)
Convenor of the Working Group “Insect Pathogens and Entomopathogenic Nematodes” of the IOBC / wprs, 2011–2017
Council Member of the Society of Invertebrate Pathology (Secretary 2008–2010, President-Elect 2014–2016, President 2016-2018, Past President 2018–2020)
Since 1998 member of the Study Group Baculoviruses of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), (thereof 2005-2009 chair)
Since 2012 member of the ICTV Study Group Hytrosaviruses
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (FiBL) Switzerland (since 2018)

Publications (selection)

JEHLE, JA, NICKEL, A., VLAK, JM, BACKHAUS, H. (1998). Horizontal escape from the novel Tc1-like lepidopteran transposon TCp3.2 into Cydia pomonella granulovirus. Journal of Molecular Evolution 46, 215-224.
LANGE, M. JEHLE, JA (2003). The genome of Cryptophlebia leucotrata granulovirus (CrleGV). Virology 317, 220-236.
JEHLE, JA, LANGE, M., WANG, H., HU, Z.-H., WANG, Y., HAUSCHILD, R. (2006). Molecular identification and phylogenetic analysis of baculoviruses of Lepidoptera. Virology 346, 180-196.
JEHLE, JA, BLISSARD, GW, BONNING, BC, CORY, J. HERNIOU, EA, ROHRMANN, GF, THEILMANN, DA, THIEM, SM, VLAK, JM (2006). On the classification and nomenclature of baculoviruses: A proposal for revision. Archives of Virology 151, 1257-1266.
ASSER-KAISER, S., FRITSCH, E., UNDORF-SPAHN, K., KIENZLE, J., EBERLE, KE, GUND, NA, REINEKE, A., ZEBITZ, CPW , HECKEL, DG, HUBER, J., JEHLE, JA (2007). Rapid emergence of baculovirus resistance in codling moth due to dominant, sex-linked inheritance. Science 318, 1916-1918.
NGUYEN THU, H., JEHLE, JA (2007). Seasonal and tissue-specific expression of Cry1Ab in Bt corn. Journal of Plant Disease and Protection 114, 82-87.
WANG, Y., BININDA-EMONDS, ORP, VAN OERS, MM, VLAK, JM, JEHLE, JA (2011). The genome of Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus provides novel provides novel insights into the evolution of nuclear arthropod-specific large circular double-stranded DNA viruses. Virus Genes 42, 444-456.
EBERLE, KE, WENNMANN, JT, KLEESPIES, RG, JEHLE, JA (2012). Methods in Insect Virology in: Manual of Techniques Insect Pathology (2nd edit.), Editor: L. Lacey. Elsevier.
GEBHARDT, M., EBERLE, KE, RADTKE, P., JEHLE, JA (2014). Baculovirus resistance in codling moth is virus-isolate dependent and the consequence of a mutation in viral gene pe38. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ot the United States of America (PNAS) 111 (44), 15711-15716.
SAUER, A., FRITSCH, E., UNDORF-SPAHN, K., NGUYEN, P., MAREC, F., HECKEL, D., JEHLE, JA (2017). Novel resistance to Cydia pomonella granulovirus (CpGV) in codling moth shows autosomal and dominant inheritance and confers cross-resistance to different CpGV genome groups. PLOS ONE: 1-17.

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Jehle, Johannes A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jehle, Johannes Alois (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biologist and institute director for biological plant protection
DATE OF BIRTH	1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Illertissen

[1] Johannes Jehle on the website of the JKI Darmstadt

[2] Johannes Jehle President of the Society of Invertebrate Pathology