Hemipteran insects are devastating pests of crops due to their wide host range, rapid
reproduction, and ability to transmit numerous plant-infecting pathogens as vectors. While …

The growing impact of phloem‐limited pathogens on high‐value crops has led to a renewed
interest in understanding how they cause disease. Although these pathogens cause …

Highlights•Phytoplasma effectors modulate plant host and insect vector processes.•Effector
SAP11 destabilizes plant TCPs inducing witch's broom and suppressing JA.•Effector SAP54 …

Simple Summary Phytoplasmas are non-cultivable organisms for which biological and
molecular characterization is a challenge. Despite the development of new sequencing …

The association between insect herbivores and vascular plants represents one of the
greatest success stories in terrestrial evolution. Specific mechanisms generating diversity in …

Phytoplasmas are obligate phytopathogenic bacteria associated with devastating diseases
in hundreds of crops across the world. They have been responsible for huge economic …

Wheat blue dwarf (WBD) is one of the most economically damaging cereal crop diseases in
northwestern PR China. The agent associated with the WBD disease is a phytoplasma …

Abstract Leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) have long been known to transmit a number
of plant pathogens, although the elucidation of the vector-host plant-pathogen relationships …

Aims In this study, binding between the immunodominant membrane protein Imp of the
16SrV‐D phytoplasma associated with Flavescence dorée disease (FD‐Dp) and insect …

The flavescence dorée phytoplasma undergoes a propagative cycle in its insect vectors by
first interacting with the insect cell surfaces, primarily in the midgut lumen and subsequently …