SOME WAYS IN WHICH A PARAFFIN OIL IMPEDES APHID TRANSMISSION OF POTATO VIRUS Y

1963 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. E. Bradley

In laboratory tests with a light white paraffin oil, transmission of potato virus Y by viruliferous adults of Myzus persicae (Sulz.) was impeded by (a) allowing aphids to probe on a leaf coated with oil, (b) manually touching the end of the labium to an oil-coated leaf, or (c) inserting the bare stylets directly into the oil. The first two of these but not the third also impeded for some minutes the uptake and transmission of virus Y by nonviruliferous aphids. Oil sprayed on plants kept in the laboratory continued to cause these effects for some weeks. If infected plants, used as virus sources for aphids, were coated with oil, transmission from them was impeded. It is still not clear why oil impedes transmission. But the results give good reasons to believe that oil can be used in the field to prevent spread of certain aphid-borne viruses.

1956 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 539-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. E. Bradley

The aphid Myzus persicae (Sulz.) most often became infective with potato virus Y on inserting the stylets only superficially into infected tobacco plants after a period without food; the further the stylets penetrated into the plant, the less likely the aphid was to be infective. When epidermis was removed from infected plants, aphids acquired virus Y as readily from the exposed mesophyll as from the piece of removed epidermis. M. persicae can feed by inserting its stylets through a membrane and into tobacco plants. But aphids rarely became infective with virus Y when they inserted their stylets through a membrane and into infected plants; and infective aphids rarely transmitted the virus when they inserted their stylets through a membrane into susceptible plants. Yet infective aphids that penetrated a membrane could afterwards infect a plant not covered with a membrane. Also, aphids did not become infective when they penetrated the deeper tissues of infected plants that had had the virus in the superficial tissues inactivated by ultraviolet radiations. The main conclusion is that M. persicae rarely becomes infective with virus Y or transmits it after the stylets penetrate beyond the first layer of plant cells.


2018 ◽  
Vol 166 (5) ◽  
pp. 380-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Bosquee ◽  
Antoine Boullis ◽  
Morgane Bertaux ◽  
Frédéric Francis ◽  
François J. Verheggen

Plant Disease ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 95 (10) ◽  
pp. 1279-1283 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. S. Mello ◽  
R. A. Olarte ◽  
S. M. Gray ◽  
K. L. Perry

Potato virus Y (PVY) is a reemerging problem in potato production in North America. Although the “ordinary” strain, PVYO, is still the dominant isolate in U.S. seed potatoes, the recombinant strain of the virus PVYN-Wi (= PVYN:O) has become widespread. An increase in the prevalence of a PVY strain could be due to differences in the efficiency of transmission by aphid vectors. The transmission efficiency by a clone of Myzus persicae was determined for five isolates each of PVYO and PVYN-Wi. An aphid transmission assay was developed based on the use of potato seedlings from true potato seed, allowing for greater control of plant age and growth stage. No apparent differences in transmission by M. persicae were observed. Single isolates of PVYO and PVYN-Wi were tested for their ability to be transmitted from potato to potato by five aphid species: Aphis glycines, A. gossypii, A. nasturtii, M. persicae, and Rhopalosiphum padi. Both PVY isolates showed a similar transmission phenotype in being transmitted efficiently by M. persicae but very poorly or not at all by A. glycines, A. gossypii, and R. padi. The aphid A. nasturtii transmitted both isolates with an intermediate level of efficiency. The data do not support a model for a differential aphid transmissibility being responsible for the increase in the prevalence of PVYN-Wi.


1953 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. E. Bradley ◽  
D. W. Rideout

Single aphids of four species were observed with a hand-lens until each had touched its proboscis once on a tobacco plant infected with potato virus Y and then once on a healthy tobacco plant. The time that the proboscis remained touching the plants in each case was recorded. This procedure required only a few minutes for each aphid, and sometimes it was completed in less than a minute. During this process, the successful transmissions of potato virus Y by single aphids of Myzus persicae (Sulz.), Aphis abbreviata Patch, Macrosiphum solanifolii (Ashm), and Myzus solani (Kltb.) were 55, 31, 9, and 4% respectively. Vector efficiency was not due to difference in feeding behavior of these species. When single infective aphids were transferred to a series of five plants at five-minute intervals, M. persicae caused more infections and remained infective longer than A. abbreviata.


1988 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. N. Singh ◽  
S. M. Paul Khurana ◽  
B. B. Nagaich ◽  
H. O. Agrawal

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 1025-1034
Author(s):  
Ying-Qin He ◽  
Yong-Qiang Zhang ◽  
Juan-Ni Chen ◽  
Wen-Long Chen ◽  
Xian-Yi Zeng ◽  
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