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Hitching a Ride: Examining the Ability of a Specialist Baculovirus to Translocate through Its Insect Host’s Food Plant
Plant vascular systems can translocate the entomopathogen Bacillus thuringiensis from the soil into plant tissues. However, whether other soil dwelling entomopathogens utilize plant vascular tissue for movement has not yet been fully explored. We used Spodoptera frugiperda multiple nucleopolyhedrovi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34832655 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10111500 |
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author | Issa, Peter P. Garvey, Michael Grimmell, Scott Pantha, Pramod Dassanayake, Maheshi Elderd, Bret D. |
author_facet | Issa, Peter P. Garvey, Michael Grimmell, Scott Pantha, Pramod Dassanayake, Maheshi Elderd, Bret D. |
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description | Plant vascular systems can translocate the entomopathogen Bacillus thuringiensis from the soil into plant tissues. However, whether other soil dwelling entomopathogens utilize plant vascular tissue for movement has not yet been fully explored. We used Spodoptera frugiperda multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (SfMNPV) to evaluate whether baculoviruses, a common entomopathogen and bioinsecticide, can be transported through the plant vascular pathways of Zea mays. We found that our treatments did not allow a sufficient virus translocation into the plant to induce a lethal infection in insects, which was confirmed by a molecular analysis. While other entomopathogens translocate, baculoviruses may not be one of them. |
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spelling | pubmed-86243882021-11-27 Hitching a Ride: Examining the Ability of a Specialist Baculovirus to Translocate through Its Insect Host’s Food Plant Issa, Peter P. Garvey, Michael Grimmell, Scott Pantha, Pramod Dassanayake, Maheshi Elderd, Bret D. Pathogens Communication Plant vascular systems can translocate the entomopathogen Bacillus thuringiensis from the soil into plant tissues. However, whether other soil dwelling entomopathogens utilize plant vascular tissue for movement has not yet been fully explored. We used Spodoptera frugiperda multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (SfMNPV) to evaluate whether baculoviruses, a common entomopathogen and bioinsecticide, can be transported through the plant vascular pathways of Zea mays. We found that our treatments did not allow a sufficient virus translocation into the plant to induce a lethal infection in insects, which was confirmed by a molecular analysis. While other entomopathogens translocate, baculoviruses may not be one of them. MDPI 2021-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8624388/ /pubmed/34832655 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10111500 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Issa, Peter P. Garvey, Michael Grimmell, Scott Pantha, Pramod Dassanayake, Maheshi Elderd, Bret D. Hitching a Ride: Examining the Ability of a Specialist Baculovirus to Translocate through Its Insect Host’s Food Plant |
title | Hitching a Ride: Examining the Ability of a Specialist Baculovirus to Translocate through Its Insect Host’s Food Plant |
title_full | Hitching a Ride: Examining the Ability of a Specialist Baculovirus to Translocate through Its Insect Host’s Food Plant |
title_fullStr | Hitching a Ride: Examining the Ability of a Specialist Baculovirus to Translocate through Its Insect Host’s Food Plant |
title_full_unstemmed | Hitching a Ride: Examining the Ability of a Specialist Baculovirus to Translocate through Its Insect Host’s Food Plant |
title_short | Hitching a Ride: Examining the Ability of a Specialist Baculovirus to Translocate through Its Insect Host’s Food Plant |
title_sort | hitching a ride: examining the ability of a specialist baculovirus to translocate through its insect host’s food plant |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34832655 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10111500 |
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