Aphids as transport devices for plant viruses
Aphids as transport devices for plant viruses
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DOI:
10.1016/j.crvi.2010.04.001
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发表时间:
2010-06-01
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2
通讯作者:
Blanc, Stephane
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作者:
Brault, Veronique;Uzest, Maryline;Blanc, Stephane
Plant viruses have evolved a wide array of strategies to ensure efficient transfer from one host to the next. Any organism feeding on infected plants and traveling between plants can potentially act as a virus transport device. Such organisms, designated vectors, are found among parasitic fungi, root nematodes and plant-feeding arthropods, particularly insects. Due to their extremely specialized feeding behavior - exploring and sampling all plant tissues, from the epidermis to the phloem and xylem - aphids are by far the most important vectors, transmitting nearly 30% of all plant virus species described to date. Several different interaction patterns have evolved between viruses and aphid vectors and, over the past century, a tremendous number of studies have provided details of the underlying mechanisms. This article presents an overview of the different types of virus-aphid relationships, state-of-the-art knowledge of the molecular processes underlying these interactions, and the remaining black boxes waiting to be opened in the near future. (C) 2010 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.