Aphids are common agricultural pests with a wide range of hosts from agriculture to forestry
plants. As known, aphids also serve as the major vectors to transmit plant viruses. Although …

Aphids (order Hemiptera) are important insect pests of crops and are also vectors of many
plant viruses. However, little is known about aphid-infecting viruses, particularly their …

Understanding the responses of insect herbivores to plant chemical defences is pivotal for
the management of crops and pests. However, the mechanisms of interaction are not …

Insect-specific virus (ISV) is one of the most promising agents for the biological control of
insects, which is abundantly distributed in hematophagous insects. However, few ISVs have …

Abstract Background Russian wheat aphid (Diuraphis noxia Kurd.) is a severe pest to wheat,
and even though resistance varieties are available to curb this pest, they are becoming …

Plants employ an array of intricate and hierarchical signaling cascades to perceive and
transduce informational cues to synchronize and tailor adaptive responses. Systemic stress …

We have previously demonstrated that Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) phloem protein
PP2-A1 is an integral component of resistance to the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae) …

Background Insects are an important reservoir of viral biodiversity, but the vast majority of
viruses associated with insects have not been discovered. Recent studies have employed …

Background Aphids are important vectors of numerous plant viruses. Besides plant viruses,
a number of insect specific viruses (ISVs), such as nege/nege-like viruses, have been …

The potato aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae is one of many polyphagous crop pests involved
in the transmission of insect-vectored pathogens. While their North American counterparts …