Diverse Begomoviruses Evolutionarily Hijack Plant Terpenoid-Based Defense to Promote Whitefly Performance.

ABSTRACT: Arthropod-borne pathogens and parasites are major threats to human health and global agriculture. They may directly or indirectly manipulate behaviors of arthropod vector for rapid transmission between hosts. The largest genus of plant viruses, Begomovirus, is transmitted exclusively by whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), a complex of at least 34 morphologically indistinguishable species. We have previously shown that plants infected with the tomato yellowleaf curl China virus (TYLCCNV) and its associated betasatellite (TYLCCNB) attract their whitefly vectors by subverting plant MYC2-regulated terpenoid biosynthesis, therefore forming an indirect mutualism between virus and vector via plant. However, the evolutionary mechanism of interactions between begomoviruses and their whitefly v

SUBMITTER: Wang N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9818243 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature