Sentences with phrase «in psyllid»

Each week, a group of students, postdocs and volunteer expert annotators from the insect research community gather on a video conference to review their progress in identifying and assigning a function to genes found in the psyllid genome.

In their study, Mann and Heck show that in psyllid nymphs, Wolbachia and CLas reside within the same cells.

Not exact matches

Two West Australian farmers say they have each lost more than $ 1 million and have been forced to downsize in the 12 months since the tomato potato psyllid was discovered near Perth.

But the culprit spreading the disease is probably the Asian citrus psyllid, an aphid - size insect first sighted in Florida in 1998.

Since 2005, the bacterium Candidatus liberibacter, spread by Asian psyllid bugs, has ravaged orange and grapefruit trees in Texas, California and Florida, producing splotchy leaves and misshapen fruit.

«We hope that BA and other similar chemicals we have in our portfolio will be able to work against the Asian citrus psyllid, Mediterranean fruit flies, whiteflies and other flies that can damage fruits and crops,» Ray said.

«We are also working with two other natural enemies, a psyllid and a defoliating weevil, which should further reduce Brazilian peppertree growth and reproduction in Florida.»

Published in Infection and Immunity, they present a possible mechanism for how CLas can infect its psyllid vector.

An important clue lies in how psyllids interact with symbiotic bacteria in its gut, especially Wolbachia pipientis.

«We now have a foothold in our understanding of a molecular difference between nymph and adult psyllids in their guts, which CLas exploits to gain entry into the insect vector,» said Heck, who is lead investigator for the project.

This discovery of smell sans glomeruli echoes a recent one in carrot psyllid bugs, and together, they may open a new view into how olfactory structures are organized, says Joshua Martin, a biologist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who was not involved with the research.

Runner up: Danielle Dixon, Mueller / Cilia labs, «Elucidating genetic variation in «Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus» transmission between Asian citrus psyllid isofemale lines»

The bacterium believed to cause citrus greening disease creates multiple changes in both the Asian citrus psyllid that carries it and the beneficial bacteria that live within the insect.

They are gearing up to publish their first «release» of the official gene set as a collaborative paper, which will be a vital resource in finding a way to stop the psyllid from spreading the citrus greening pathogen.

Scientists nationwide and around the globe are working together to make sense of the genome of the Asian citrus psyllid — an insect that is spreading a bacterium that is devastating citrus crops — and they aren't letting geography get in their way.

Combining «omics and microscopy to visualize interactions between the Asian citrus psyllid vector and the Huanglongbing pathogen Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus in the insect gut

Associated with a bacteria that is spread by the Asian citrus psyllid, the infection results in blotchy mottling of leaves, stunting of shoots, gradual death of branches, and small, deformed fruits with bitter juice.