| Title: | Tomato spotted wilt virus infection reduces the fitness of a nonvector herbivore on pepper |
| Author(s): | Pan H; Chen G; Li F; Wu Q; Wang S; Xie W; Liu B; Xu B; Zhang Y; |
| Address: | "Department of Plant Protection, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, PR China" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0022-0493 (Print) 0022-0493 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Plant pathogens and insect herbivores often share hosts under natural conditions. Hence, pathogen-induced changes in a host plant can affect the herbivore and vice versa. Even though plant viruses are ubiquitous in the field, little is known about plant-mediated interactions between viruses and nonvector herbivores. Here we tested whether the performance of the sweet potato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) biotype Q, was altered when raised on pepper infected with Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV). TSWV infection reduced B. tabaci fecundity and longevity and increased B. tabaci developmental time but did not affect the insect's survival or female body lengths. Our results demonstrate that TSWV infection can decrease the fitness of B. tabaci biotype Q on pepper plants" |
| Keywords: | Animals Capsicum/*virology China Female Genetic Fitness Hemiptera/genetics/*physiology Herbivory Male Plant Diseases/virology Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Tospovirus/*physiology; |
| Notes: | "MedlinePan, Huipeng Chen, Gong Li, Fei Wu, Qingjun Wang, Shaoli Xie, Wen Liu, Baiming Xu, Baoyun Zhang, Youjun eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2013/06/22 J Econ Entomol. 2013 Apr; 106(2):924-8. doi: 10.1603/ec12365" |
