The study of vector biology encompasses various disciplines and levels of pursuit, each one examined separately and then collaboratively with the others to holistically explain the range of vector activities, like host-finding, feeding, and dispersal.

This comprehensive monograph explains in detail the complex range of factors and interactions related to the vector-mediated transmission of plant pathogens, including…

• The various types of vectors involved, including arthropods, mites, fungi, and organisms once classified as fungal pathogens, nematodes, and trypanosomatids.

• A variety of key pathogens, including eubacteria, fungi, plant pathogenic nematodes, as well as plant RNA and DNA viruses

• The many mechanistic and ecological roles related to vector-mediated transmission

• The pathogen’s coevolved interactions with particular type and parts of the vector at hand

• The defined pathways between the vector and host

• Specific retention-inoculation characteristics in relation to the vector and plant host

Each chapter offers detailed examples of particular pathogen-vector interaction modes, tying together many years of research to advance the understanding of pathogen-vector biology and interactions at biochemical, cellular-tissue-organ, and functional genomics levels.

The final section includes short treatises on a number of emerging pathogen-vector complexes which will require further research. They were written with the goal of inspiring students and researchers to continue to advance this important field of study.

Vector-Mediated Transmission of Plant Pathogens spans the disciplines of plant pathology, virology, bacteriology, mycology, entomology, and ecology. It is an ideal textbook and reference for students, professors, and all those who study or specialize in vector biology in general—or in relation to any of these disciplines.

Please see the preface here.

Vector-Mediated Transmission of Plant Pathogens

Part 1. Biochemical, Genetic, and Genomic Considerations

CHAPTER 1 Chemical Ecology of Aphid-Transmitted Plant Viruses

Sanford D. Eigenbrode and Nilsa A. Bosque-Pérez

CHAPTER 2 Dissecting the Multifaceted Mechanisms That Drive Leafhopper Host–Phytoplasma Specificity

Assunta Bertaccini, Kenro Oshima, Shigeyuki Kakizawa, Bojan Duduk, and Shigetou Namba

Part 2. Noncirculative Pathogen–Insect Vector Interactions: Stylet-Borne and/or Mouthpart-Borne Pathogens (Nonpersistent)

CHAPTER 3 Aphid Behavior and the Transmission of Noncirculative Viruses

Alberto Fereres

CHAPTER 4 Whitefly Feeding Behavior and Transmission of Noncirculative Plant Viruses

James Ng and Gregory P. Walker

CHAPTER 5 Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Noncirculative Virus–Vector Interactions

Marilyne Uzest and Stéphane Blanc

CHAPTER 6 Dutch Elm Disease and Elm Bark Beetles: Pathogen–Insect Interaction

Massimo Faccoli and Alberto Santini

CHAPTER 7 Pine Wilt and Red Ring, Lethal Plant Diseases Caused by Insect-Mediated Bursaphelenchus Nematodes

Natsumi Kanzaki and Robin M. Giblin-Davis

Part 3. Noncirculative Pathogen–Insect Vector Interactions: Foregut-Borne Pathogens (Semipersistent)

CHAPTER 8 Semipersistent Whitefly-Transmitted Viruses: Criniviruses

William M. Wintermantel

CHAPTER 9 Citrus tristeza virus–Aphid Interactions

S. J. Harper, R. K. Yokomi, and W. O. Dawson

CHAPTER 10 Beetle Transmission: A Unique Alliance of Virus, Vector, and Host

Sue A. Tolin, Marie A. C. Langham, and Rose C. Gergerich

CHAPTER 11 Virus Transmission by Mealybugs and Soft Scales (Hemiptera: Coccoidea)

Etienne Herrbach, Jean Le Maguet, and Gérard Hommay

Part 4. Noncirculative Pathogen–Insect Vector Interactions: Foregut-Borne Pathogens (Persistent)

CHAPTER 12 Xylella fastidiosa Vector Transmission Biology

Rodrigo P. P. Almeida

CHAPTER 13 Sharpshooter Feeding Behavior in Relation to Transmission of Xylella fastidiosa: A Model for Foregut-Borne Transmission Mechanisms

Elaine A. Backus

CHAPTER 14 Transmission Ecology and Epidemiology of the Citrus Variegated Chlorosis Strain of Xylella fastidiosa

João R. Spotti Lopes and Rodrigo Krugner

Part 5. Circulative (Persistent) Pathogen–Vector Complexes: Nonpropagative

CHAPTER 15 Bemisia tabaci-Mediated Transmission of Begomoviruses: History and Anatomical, Biological, and Cellular Interactions

Joseph M. Cicero and Judith K. Brown

CHAPTER 16 Mastreviruses: Tropical and Temperate Leafhopper-Borne Geminiviruses

Anders Kvarnheden, Jean-Michel Lett, and Michel Peterschmitt

CHAPTER 17 Transmission of Curtoviruses (Beet curly top virus) by the Beet Leafhopper (Circulifer tenellus)

Li-Fang Chen and Robert L. Gilbertson

CHAPTER 18 Eriophyid Mite Vectors of Plant Viruses

Drake C. Stenger, Gary L. Hein, Satyanarayana Tatineni, and Roy French

Part 6. Circulative (Persistent) Pathogen–Vector Complexes: Propagative

CHAPTER 19 Maize Rhabdovirus–Vector Transmission

Margaret G. Redinbaugh and El-Desouky Ammar

CHAPTER 20 Tospovirus–Thrips Biology

Mauricio Montero-Astúa, Candice A. Stafford-Banks, Ismael E. Badillo-Vargas, Dorith Rotenberg, Diane E. Ullman, and Anna E. Whitfield

CHAPTER 21 Brevipalpus spp. (Acari: Tenuipalpidae): Vectors of Cytoplasmic and Nuclear Viruses in Plants

Jose Carlos Verle Rodrigues, Carl C. Childers, and Elliot W. Kitajima

CHAPTER 22 Insect Transmission of Phytoplasmas

Domenico Bosco and Cristina Marzachì

CHAPTER 23 Cucurbit Yellow Vine Disease: A Model for True Bug–Bacteria Relationships

Astri Wayadande, Jacqueline Fletcher, and Benny Bruton

CHAPTER 24 Olpidium-Transmitted Viruses

D’Ann Rochon

CHAPTER 25 Polymyxa Species and the Viruses They Vector—With Emphasis on Benyviruses and Furoviruses

Madeleine Smith and Charles Rush

CHAPTER 26 Nematode-Borne Plant Viruses

Stuart A. MacFarlane, Inga Zasada, Olivier Lemaire, and Gérard Demangeat

CHAPTER 27 Heteroptera and Plant Trypanosomatids (Phytomonas spp.)

Michel Dollet

CHAPTER 28 Psyllid-Transmitted Candidatus Liberibacter Species Infecting Citrus and Solanaceous Hosts

Judith K. Brown, Joseph M. Cicero, and Tonja W. Fisher

Part 7. Emerging Pathogen–Vector Complexes

CHAPTER 29 Rice yellow mottle virus

Oumar Traoré and Denis Fargette

CHAPTER 30 Torradoviruses

Martin Verbeek, Annette M. Dullemans, and René A. A. van der Vlugt

CHAPTER 31 Ipomoviruses

Susan E. Webb, Scott Adkins, M. N. Maruthi, and James P. Legg

CHAPTER 32 Cowpea mild mottle virus

Alan A. Brunt

CHAPTER 33 Transmission of Viruses from Sweetpotatoes and Wild Species of Convolvulaceae in East Africa: Many Gaps to Fill

Arthur K. Tugume, Settumba B. Mukasa, and Jari P. T. Valkonen

CHAPTER 34 Aphid Transmission of Viruses of the Family Nanoviridae

H. Josef Vetten, Bruno Gronenborn, and Alberto Bressan

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