Sentences with phrase «mealybugs in»

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«An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs.»

Unfortunately, the mealybug is equally capable of traveling via a human vector — and it is now devastating the cassava (aka manioc or yucca) crop on some 200,000 hectares in Thailand, where some 60 percent of global exports (worth $ 1.5 billion) are grown, according to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a Colombia - based research nonprofit focused on reducing hunger and poverty via sustainable agriculture.

Together the three organisms form a complex, co-dependent web; the nested bacteria complement each other and their insect host, creating a genetic patchwork of enzymes needed to produce amino acids lacking in the mealybugs» sap diet.

Tremblaya helps to supply the mealybug with essential amino acids and likely receives nutrients and other life - sustaining molecules in return.

Now scientists have figured out how both microbes pitch in to keep the mealybugs well fed — a finding that could offer a glimpse at how our own mitochondria evolved.

We hear that there is looming banana crisis in Costa Rica — the world's 2nd leading exporter of the fruit — as this year's crop is being threatened by an infestation of mealybugs, scale insects, and fungal infection.