Glassy-Winged Sharpshooters Depend on Two Endosymbionts
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Transmission of phage by glassy-winged sharpshooters, a vector of Xylella fastidiosa
Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa (Xff) is the causal agent of Pierce's Disease (PD) of grapevines and is vectored by the glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS, Homalodisca vitripennis). Previously we have reported the development of a bacteriophage (phage) based biocontrol system for PD, but no information on insect transmission of phages has been reported. Here we communicate that laboratory re...
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The glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS; Homalodisca vitripennis) feeds on a wide variety of host plants including grapes, oleander, and citrus and is the primary vector of Xylella fastidiosa (Xf), the causal agent of Pierce’s disease of grapevine, oleander leaf scorch, and citrus variegated chlorosis. Additional bacterial species have been identified within GWSS which may contribute to the insect...
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INTRODUCTION Homalodisca coagulata Say, the glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) is known to transmit the etiological agent of Pierce’s disease, Xylella fastidiosa. A paratransgenic approach designed to disrupt the ability of the insect vector to transmit the pathogen involves finding bacterial candidates that possess some degree of intimacy either within the insect and/or host plant xylem. Once a...
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A new virus species of the genus Phytoreovirus was isolated from glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS), Homalodisca vitripennis Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), in California and designated here as Homalodisca vitripennis reovirus (HoVRV). Extraction of nucleic acid from GWSS adults collected from three Californian populations revealed an array of double-stranded (ds) RNA species that was soluble ...
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Using glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) egg-specific monoclonal antibody (MAb) and GWSS-specific genetic markers that we previously developed and optimized, the guts of field-collected predators were screened for the presence of GWSS remains. We have examined the guts of over 700 generalist predators and our analyses revealed that frequent predators of the GWSS include spiders, assassin bugs, l...
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عنوان ژورنال: Microbe Magazine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1558-7452,1558-7460
DOI: 10.1128/microbe.1.400.2