scholarly journals Real time EPG recordings of tomatopotato psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli) feeding on tomato

2011 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 294-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.R.M. Sandanayaka ◽  
N.E.M. Page-Weir ◽  
A. Fereres
Keyword(s):  
Total Duration ◽  
Bactericera Cockerelli ◽  
Electrical Penetration Graph ◽  
Voltage Level ◽  
Phloem Sap ◽  
System Technique ◽  
Candidatus Liberibacter ◽  
Sieve Tubes ◽  
Phloem Feeder ◽  
First Contact

The stylet penetration behaviour of tomatopotato psyllid (TPP; Bactericera cockerelli Hemiptera Psyllidae) a phloem feeder was monitored using an electrical penetration graph (EPGDC system) technique Fifteen adult psyllids were randomly selected from a colony and monitored for 8 h on tomato plants under laboratory conditions EPG waveforms generated during stylet penetration into the plant tissues were categorised based on amplitude frequency voltage level and electrical origin The main waveforms representing salivary sheath secretion and other stylet pathway activities (C) first contact with phloem (D) salivation in phloem sieve tubes (E1) and phloem sap ingestion (E2) were similar to the Asian citrus psyllid Diaphorina citri and this was confirmed by histological studies Phloem ingestion was seen from 12 out of 15 psyllids tested The time to first contact of phloem from the beginning of recording was 1163 h and the total duration of phloem ingestion recorded was from 1 min to 52 h within the 8 h recording period The information gathered on the feeding behaviour of TPP from this study will be applicable for future studies to understand the transmission of Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum by TPP as well as other Liberibacter and TPP management studies

scholarly journals Effect of Lupin Cyclitols on Pea Aphid Probing Behaviour

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bożena Kordan ◽  
Lesław Lahuta ◽  
Katarzyna Dancewicz ◽  
Wojciech Sądej ◽  
Beata Gabryś
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Acyrthosiphon Pisum ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
Total Duration ◽  
Pea Aphid ◽  
Main Stage ◽  
Electrical Penetration Graph ◽  
Phloem Sap ◽  
Probing Behaviour ◽  
Plant Treatment

Effect of Lupin Cyclitols on Pea Aphid Probing BehaviourThe cyclitols: D-pinitol, D-chiro-inositol are naturally present in the tissues ofLupinus angustifolius. The effect of these cyclitols on the behaviour of the pea associated clone ofAcyrthosiphon pisumduring various stages of probing was studied. The main stage of probing studied was the stylet penetration in mesphyll and vascular bundle. D-pinitol, D-chiro-inositol and their mixture were exogenously applied to peaPisum sativumexplants and the aphid probing behaviour was evaluated using the Electrical Penetration Graph technique (EPG). Feeding of peas with cyclitols at a concentration of 10 mM, caused a selective accumulation of D-pinitol and D-chiro-inositol in stems, leaf petioles, and leaf blades. In aphid bodies, both cyclitols were traced, respectively, to the host plant treatment. The new cyclitols in pea tissues did not significantly affect the total duration and frequency of aphid activities during probing in peripheral as well as vascular tissues. However, the aphid behaviour on cyclitol-treated plants as compared to their behaviour on the control was slightly altered. Non-probing and probing in mesophyl prevailed among aphid activities during the initial period of stylet penetration. Aphids on D-pinitol+D-chiro-inositol-treated plants reached phloem vessels relatively later than aphids on the control and D-chiro-inositol plants. There were recurrent switches between E1 (salivation) and E2 (sap ingestion) patterns in some aphids during the phloem phase on D-pinitol and D-pinitol+D-chiro-inositol - treated plants. This may reflect difficulties in the uptake of the phloem sap, and point to lupin cyclitols as being responsible, at least in part, for the rejection ofL. angustifoliusas a host plant by the pea clone ofA. pisum.

scholarly journals Probing behavior of Adelges laricis Vallot (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) on Larix decidua Mill: Description and analysis of EPG waveforms

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0251663
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Dancewicz ◽  
Beata Gabryś ◽  
Iwona Morkunas ◽  
Sławomir Samardakiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Xylem Sap ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Larix Decidua ◽  
Plant Tissues ◽  
Electrical Penetration Graph ◽  
European Larch ◽  
Voltage Level ◽  
Phloem Sap ◽  
Probing Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Activities

Adelgidae are a sister group of Aphididae and Phylloxeridae within Hemiptera, Aphidoidea and occur exclusively on Pinaceae. The piercing-sucking mouthparts of Adelgidae are similar to those of aphids and it is believed that adelgids ingest sap from both the non-vascular and vascular (phloem) tissues. The aim of the present study was to identify and characterize the adelgid stylet activities during their penetration in plant tissues. The probing behavior of Adelges laricis Vallot (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) on European larch Larix decidua Mill. and sucrose diets was monitored using the DC-EPG (Electrical Penetration Graph technique = electropenetrography). The EPG waveforms were described based on amplitude, frequency, voltage level, and electrical origin of the observed traces, and associated with putative behavioral activities based on analogy with aphid activities. Waveform frequency, duration, and sequence were analysed as well. A. laricis generated EPG signals at two clearly distinct voltage levels positive and negative, suggesting extracellular and intracellular stylet penetration, respectively. The adelgid EPG patterns were ascribed to four behavioral phases, which were non-probing, pathway, phloem, and xylem phases. Non-probing referred to the position of the stylets outside the plant tissues. Pathway phase was represented by three waveform patterns that visualized extracellular stylet penetration in non-vascular tissues without potential drops (AC1), with serial short (1.2–1.5 s) potential drops (AC2), and with ‘aphid-like’ (5–10 s) potential drops (AC3). Phloem phase comprised three waveform patterns at intracellular level, which in all probability represented phloem salivation (AE1), and phloem sap passive (AE2) and active ingestion (AE3). AE3 was a newly described waveform, previously unreported from Hemiptera. Waveform AG represented the ingestion of xylem sap. The comparative analysis demonstrated that the gymnosperm-associated adelgids show certain similarities in probing behavior typical of aphids and phylloxerids on angiosperm plants. The present work is the first detailed analysis of specific adelgid stylet activities on gymnosperms.

Actividad de dos hongos entomopatógenos, identificados molecularmente, sobre Bactericera cockerelli

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiola Villegas-Rodríguez ◽  
Ovidio Díaz-Gómez ◽  
J. Sergio Casas-Flores ◽  
Clara Teresa Monreal-Vargas ◽  
Fernando Tamayo-Mejía ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Beauveria Bassiana ◽  
Bactericera Cockerelli ◽  
Candidatus Liberibacter

El psílido de la papa Bactericera cockerelli afecta a las solanáceas en México, por el daño directo que causa, además, de que es transmisor de patógenos procariotes como Candidatus Liberibacter solanacerum (psyllaurous). Este insecto es combatido principalmente con productos químicos. Sin embargo, en la actualidad, se buscan nuevas estrategias para su manejo como el uso de hongos entomopatógenos. El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar la susceptibilidad del psílido de la papa a dos cepas comerciales y dos nativas de Metarizhium anisopliae y Beauveria bassiana, así como confirmar la identificación de las mismas mediante técnicas moleculares. Los bioensayos se realizaron con la cepa nativa MA25 de M. anisopliae y las comerciales Metabich® (MA28) y Bassianil® (BB09) y la nativa BB42 de Be. bassiana. Se probaron cinco concentraciones sobre ninfas del tercer estadio de B. cockerelli y se obtuvieron sus CL50 y CL95. Todas las cepas resultaron patógenas para el psílido de la papa, las más tóxicas fueron BB09, BB42 y MA28. La mortalidad fluctuó entre 90 a 100% con las concentraciones más altas de cada cepa: la más virulenta fue BB09, con una CL50 de 2,99 x 104 conidias mL-1 y MA25 la menos virulenta tuvo una CL50 de 6,34 x 105 conidias ml-1. Mediante la clonación y la secuenciación de la región ITS de los rADN 18S, se corroboró que las cepas nativas identificadas por morfología microscópica y claves taxonómicas corresponden a Be. bassiana y M. anisopliae.

scholarly journals Localization of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ and Evidence for Surface Appendages in the Potato Psyllid Vector

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Cicero ◽  
T. W. Fisher ◽  
J. K. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Light And Electron Microscopy ◽  
Fluorescence Labeling ◽  
Potato Psyllid ◽  
Bactericera Cockerelli ◽  
Visual Identification ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Candidatus Liberibacter ◽  
Identification Of Bacteria

The potato psyllid Bactericera cockerelli is implicated as the vector of the causal agent of zebra chip of potato and vein-greening of tomato diseases. Until now, visual identification of bacteria in the genus ‘Candidatus Liberibacter’ has relied on direct imaging by light and electron microscopy without labeling, or with whole-organ fluorescence labeling only. In this study, aldehyde fixative followed by a coagulant fixative, was used to process adult psyllids for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) colloidal gold in situ hybridization experiments. Results indicated that ‘Ca. Liberibacter solanacearum’ (CLso)-specific DNA probes annealed to a bacterium that formed extensive, monocultural biofilms on gut, salivary gland, and oral region tissues, confirming that it is one morphotype of potentially others, that is rod-shaped, approximately 2.5 µm in diameter and of variable length, and has a rough, granular cytosol. In addition, CLso, prepared from shredded midguts, and negatively stained for TEM, possessed pili- and flagella-like surface appendages. Genes implicating coding capacity for both types of surface structures are encoded in the CLso genome sequence. Neither type was seen for CLso associated with biofilms within or on digestive organs, suggesting that their production is stimulated only in certain environments, putatively, in the gut during adhesion leading to multiplication, and in hemolymph to afford systemic invasion.

Studies on the Feeding and Nutrition of Tuberolachnus Salignus (Gmelin) (Homoptera, Aphididae):

1957 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-341
Author(s):  
T. E. MITTLER
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Sieve Tube ◽  
Normal Rate ◽  
Phloem Sap ◽  
Food Canal ◽  
Tuberolachnus Salignus ◽  
Normal Feeding ◽  
Sieve Tubes ◽  
Considerable Pressure ◽  
Salix Spp

1. A study has been made of the factors involved in the uptake of phloem sap by Tuberolachnus salignus (Gmelin) feeding on the stems of various Salix spp. 2. A method has been developed for maintaining the parthenogenetic viviparous forms of T. salignus in culture throughout the year. 3. It has been established that during normal feeding T. salignus have the tips of their stylets inserted into the phloem sieve-tubes of the host plant. 4. The phloem sieve-tube sap of intact and turgid willow stems is under considerable pressure. This pressure forces the sieve-tube mp up the stylet food canal of feeding aphids, and also causes the sieve-tube sap to exude for many hours from the cut end of embedded stylet bundles. 5. Intact and feeding T. salignus rely almost entirely on this pressure to maintain their normal rate of eieve-tube sap uptake. The aphids must, however, swallow actively in order to ingest.

scholarly journals Identification of Autophagy-Related Genes in the Potato Psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli and Their Expression Profile in Response to ‘Candidatus Liberibacter Solanacearum’ in the Gut

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1073
Author(s):  
Xiao-Tian Tang ◽  
Cecilia Tamborindeguy
Keyword(s):  
Expression Profile ◽  
Profile Analysis ◽  
Plant Viruses ◽  
Insect Vectors ◽  
Potato Psyllid ◽  
Bactericera Cockerelli ◽  
Candidatus Liberibacter Solanacearum ◽  
Expression Profile Analysis ◽  
Candidatus Liberibacter

Autophagy, also known as type II programmed cell death, is a cellular mechanism of “self-eating”. Autophagy plays an important role against pathogen infection in numerous organisms. Recently, it has been demonstrated that autophagy can be activated and even manipulated by plant viruses to facilitate their transmission within insect vectors. However, little is known about the role of autophagy in the interactions of insect vectors with plant bacterial pathogens. ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ (Lso) is a phloem-limited Gram-negative bacterium that infects crops worldwide. Two Lso haplotypes, LsoA and LsoB, are transmitted by the potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli and cause damaging diseases in solanaceous plants (e.g., zebra chip in potatoes). Both LsoA and LsoB are transmitted by the potato psyllid in a persistent circulative manner: they colonize and replicate within psyllid tissues. Following acquisition, the gut is the first organ Lso encounters and could be a barrier for transmission. In this study, we annotated autophagy-related genes (ATGs) from the potato psyllid transcriptome and evaluated their expression in response to Lso infection at the gut interface. In total, 19 ATGs belonging to 17 different families were identified. The comprehensive expression profile analysis revealed that the majority of the ATGs were regulated in the psyllid gut following the exposure or infection to each Lso haplotype, LsoA and LsoB, suggesting a potential role of autophagy in response to Lso at the psyllid gut interface.

“Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum” infection of commercial tomatillo, Physalis ixocarpa Brot. (Solanales: Solanaceae) in Saltillo, Mexico

Plant Disease ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar Alejandro Reyes Corral ◽  
W. Rodney Cooper ◽  
Alexander V Karasev ◽  
Carolina Delgado-Luna ◽  
SERGIO R. Sanchez-PENA
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Solanum Tuberosum L ◽  
Gut Content Analysis ◽  
Bactericera Cockerelli ◽  
Gut Content ◽  
Candidatus Liberibacter Solanacearum ◽  
Solanum Lycopersicum L ◽  
Foliar Symptoms ◽  
Candidatus Liberibacter ◽  
Psyllid Yellows

The potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Šulc), (Hemiptera: Triozidae) is a pest of Solanaceous crops (Solanales) including potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). Feeding by high populations of nymphs causes psyllid yellows while adults and nymphs are vectors of the plant pathogen, “Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum” (Lso). Foliar symptoms that were consistent with either Lso-infection or psyllid yellows were observed in 2019 on tomatillo (Physalis ixocarpa Brot.; Solanaceae) grown within an experimental plot located near Saltillo, Mexico. This study had three primary objectives: 1) determine whether the foliar symptoms observed on tomatillo were associated with Lso infection, 2) identify the haplotypes of Lso and potato psyllids present in the symptomatic plot, and 3) use gut content analysis to infer the plant sources of Lso-infected psyllids. Results confirmed that 71% of symptomatic plants and 71% of psyllids collected from the plants were infected with Lso. The detection of Lso in plants and psyllids, and the lack of nymphal populations associated with psyllid yellows strongly suggests that the observed foliar symptoms were caused by Lso infection. All infected plants and insects harbored the more virulent Lso haplotype B, but one psyllid was also co-infected with haplotype A. The potato psyllids were predominantly of the central haplotype, but one psyllid was identified as the western haplotype. Molecular gut content analysis of psyllids confirmed the movement of psyllids between non-crop habitats and tomatillo and indicated that Lso infection of psyllids was associated with increased plant diversity in their diet.

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