Masters of Manipulation: Plant–Pathogen–Vector–Symbiont Interactions and Novel Management Techniques On-Demand Presentations

Organizer(s)

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  Gina Angelella

  Research Entomologist
  Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Unit, USDA
  USDA-ARS
  Wapato, Washington
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  Rodney Cooper

  Research Leader/Research Entomologist
  ARS Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research Unit
  USDA-ARS
  Wapato, Washington

This session will cover recent research on the interactions among vector insect, plant, pathogen, and symbiont, and, ultimately, the way we can harness these processes to generate novel management practices or tools. Topics will bring together the desciplines of entomology, plant pathology, microbiology, and agriculture.

Presentations:

• On Demand

  Functional plasticity of the crinivirus minor coat protein (CPm): two regions in a foregut-binding chimeric CPm mediate virus transmission by whitefly vectors
  

  Presenting Author: James Ng – University of California

  Co-author: James Peng – University of California

  Co-author: Angel Chen – University of California

  Co-author: Jaclyn Zhou – University of California
• On Demand

  The role of pathogen‐mediated insect superabundance in the East African emergence of a plant virus
  

  Presenting Author: Ruairi Donnelly (he/him/his) – University of Cambridge

  Co-author: Christopher Gilligan – University of Cambridge