Phytoplasmas are bacterial plant pathogens that are detrimental to many plants and cause devastating effects on crops. They are not viable outside their host plants and depend on specific insect vectors for their transmission. So far, research has largely focused on plant-pathogen interactions, while the complex interactions between phytoplasmas and insect vectors are far less understood. Here, we used next-generation sequencing to investigate how transcriptional profiles of the vector psyllid Cacopsylla melanoneura (Hemiptera, Psyllidae) are altered during infection by the bacterium Candidatus Phytoplasma mali (P. mali), which causes the economically important apple proliferation disease. This first de novo transcriptome assembly of an apple proliferation vector revealed that mainly genes involved in small GTPase mediated signal transduction, nervous system development, adhesion, reproduction, actin-filament based and rhythmic processes are significantly altered upon P. mali infection. Furthermore, the presence of P. mali is accompanied by significant changes in carbohydrate and polyol levels, as revealed by metabolomics analysis. Taken together, our results suggest that infection with P. mali impacts on the insect vector physiology, which in turn likely affects the ability of the vector to transmit phytoplasma.

Weil, T.; Ometto, L.; Esteve-Codina, A.; Gómez-Garrido, J.; Oppedisano, T.; Lotti, C.; Dabad, M.; Alioto, T.; Vrhovsek, U.; Hogenhout, S.; Anfora, G. (2020). Linking omics and ecology to dissect interactions between the apple proliferation phytoplasma and its psyllid vector Cacopsylla melanoneura. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 127: 103474. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2020.103474 handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/64990

Linking omics and ecology to dissect interactions between the apple proliferation phytoplasma and its psyllid vector Cacopsylla melanoneura

Weil, T.
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Ometto, L.;Oppedisano, T.;Lotti, C.;Vrhovsek, U.;Anfora, G.
2020-01-01

Abstract

Phytoplasmas are bacterial plant pathogens that are detrimental to many plants and cause devastating effects on crops. They are not viable outside their host plants and depend on specific insect vectors for their transmission. So far, research has largely focused on plant-pathogen interactions, while the complex interactions between phytoplasmas and insect vectors are far less understood. Here, we used next-generation sequencing to investigate how transcriptional profiles of the vector psyllid Cacopsylla melanoneura (Hemiptera, Psyllidae) are altered during infection by the bacterium Candidatus Phytoplasma mali (P. mali), which causes the economically important apple proliferation disease. This first de novo transcriptome assembly of an apple proliferation vector revealed that mainly genes involved in small GTPase mediated signal transduction, nervous system development, adhesion, reproduction, actin-filament based and rhythmic processes are significantly altered upon P. mali infection. Furthermore, the presence of P. mali is accompanied by significant changes in carbohydrate and polyol levels, as revealed by metabolomics analysis. Taken together, our results suggest that infection with P. mali impacts on the insect vector physiology, which in turn likely affects the ability of the vector to transmit phytoplasma.
Phytoplasma
Vector-pathogen-interactions
Small GTPase signalling
Rhythmic processes
Nervous system
Reproduction
Settore BIO/11 - BIOLOGIA MOLECOLARE
2020
Weil, T.; Ometto, L.; Esteve-Codina, A.; Gómez-Garrido, J.; Oppedisano, T.; Lotti, C.; Dabad, M.; Alioto, T.; Vrhovsek, U.; Hogenhout, S.; Anfora, G. (2020). Linking omics and ecology to dissect interactions between the apple proliferation phytoplasma and its psyllid vector Cacopsylla melanoneura. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 127: 103474. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2020.103474 handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/64990
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