RNA Interference in Insect Vectors for Plant Viruses

RNA Interference in Insect Vectors for Plant Viruses

Insects and other arthropods are the most important vectors of plant pathogens. The majority of plant pathogens are disseminated by arthropod vectors such as aphids, beetles, leafhoppers, planthoppers, thrips and whiteflies. Transmission of plant pathogens and the challenges in managing insect vectors due to insecticide resistance are factors that contribute to major food losses in agriculture....

The Role of Bacterial Chaperones in the Circulative Transmission of Plant Viruses by Insect Vectors

Persistent circulative transmission of plant viruses involves complex interactions between the transmitted virus and its insect vector. Several studies have shown that insect vector proteins are involved in the passage and the transmission of the virus. Interestingly, proteins expressed by bacterial endosymbionts that reside in the insect vector, were also shown to influence the transmission of...

RNA interference & inhibition of viruses.

147 RNA interference (RNAi) is emerging as a new strategy to selectively shut off the post-transcriptional expression of mRNA. This evolutionarily maintained mechanism has been detected from yeast to mammalian cells. Rapid, inexpensive and selective silencing of a gene product in complex biological systems obviously has opened new avenues in fields of virology, cancer research, genetic disorder...

Plant RNA interference in vitro.

How RNA Interference Combat Viruses in Plants