Vector-Borne Bacterial Plant Pathogens: Interactions with Hemipteran Insects and Plants.

ABSTRACT: Hemipteran insects are devastating pests of crops due to their wide host range, rapid reproduction, and ability to transmit numerous plant-infecting pathogens as vectors. While the field of plant-virus-vector interactions has flourished in recent years, plant-bacteria-vector interactions remain poorly understood. Leafhoppers and psyllids are by far the most important vectors of bacterial pathogens, yet there are still significant gaps in our understanding of their feeding behavior, salivary secretions, and plant responses as compared to important viral vectors, such as whiteflies and aphids. Even with an incomplete understanding of plant-bacteria-vector interactions, some common themes have emerged: (1) all known vector-borne bacteria share the ability to propagate in the plant and insect

SUBMITTER: Perilla-Henao LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4977473 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature