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ArticleScientific reports2020

Asian citrus psyllid adults inoculate huanglongbing bacterium more efficiently than nymphs when this bacterium is acquired by early instar nymphs.

El-Desouky Ammar, Justin George, Kasie Sturgeon, Lukasz L Stelinski, Robert G Shatters

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

El-Desouky AmmarUSDA-ARS, United States Horticultural Research Laboratory, Fort Pierce, FL, 34945, USA. desoukyammar@gmail.com.
Justin GeorgeUSDA-ARS, United States Horticultural Research Laboratory, Fort Pierce, FL, 34945, USA.
Kasie SturgeonUSDA-ARS, United States Horticultural Research Laboratory, Fort Pierce, FL, 34945, USA.
Lukasz L StelinskiEntomology and Nematology Department, Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 700 Experiment Station Rd., Lake Alfred, FL, 33850, USA.
Robert G ShattersUSDA-ARS, United States Horticultural Research Laboratory, Fort Pierce, FL, 34945, USA.
U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory · USFlorida Department of Citrus · USUniversity of Florida · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri) transmits the bacterium 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' (CLas), which causes huanglongbing (citrus greening) disease, in a circulative-propagative manner. We compared CLas inoculation efficiency of D. citri nymphs and adults into healthy (uninfected) citron leaves when both vector stages were reared from eggs on infected plants. The proportion of CLas-positive leaves was 2.5% for nymphs and 36.3% for adults. CLas acquisition by early instar nymphs followed by dissections of adults and 4th instar nymphs revealed that CLas bacterium had moved into the head-thorax section (containing the salivary glands) in 26.7-30.0% of nymphs and 37-45% of adults. Mean Ct values in these sections were 31.6-32.9 and 26.8-27.0 for nymphs and adults, respectively. Therefore, CLas incidence and titer were higher in the head-thorax of adults than in nymphs. Our results suggest that following acquisition of CLas by early instar D. citri nymphs, emerging adults inoculate the bacteria into citrus more efficiently than nymphs because adults are afforded a longer latent period necessary for multiplication and/or translocation of CLas into the salivary glands of the vector. We propose that CLas uses D. citri nymphs mainly for pathogen acquisition and multiplication, and their adults mainly for pathogen inoculation and spread.

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Host-Pathogen InteractionsAnimalsCitrusHemipteraNymphPlant DiseasesPlant LeavesRhizobiaceae

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