Western flower thrips (WFT) is one of the most economically important pest insects of many
crops worldwide. Recent EU legislation has caused a dramatic shift in pest management …

Highlights•Research is revealing greater genetic diversity of thrips vectors and
tospoviruses.•Specific thrips–tospovirus population interactions underlie transmission …

The majority of plant-infecting viruses are transmitted to their host plants by vectors. The
interactions between viruses and vector vary in duration and specificity but some common …

Acquisition and transmission by an insect vector is central to the infection cycle of the
majority of plant pathogenic viruses. Plant viruses can interact with their insect host in a …

The genus Tospovirus is unique within the family Bunyaviridae in that it is made up of
viruses that infect plants. Initially documented over 100 years ago, tospoviruses have …

Tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus (TSWV) is one of the most successful pandemic
agricultural pathogens transmitted by several species of thrips in a persistent propagative …

Negative-strand (-) RNA viruses (NSVs) comprise a large and diverse group of viruses that
are generally divided in those with non-segmented and those with segmented genomes …

Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is transmitted by Frankliniella occidentalis in a circulative-
propagative manner. Little is known about thrips vector response to TSWV during the …

The insect order Thysanoptera is exclusively comprised of small insects commonly known
as thrips. The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, is an economically important …

The plant-pathogenic virus tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) encodes a structural
glycoprotein (GN) that, like with other bunyavirus/vector interactions, serves a role in viral …