Other Invertebrate Pests

Capinera, John L.

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“…The pests include those affecting cucurbits worldwide as well as those which are more pronounced in certain regions of the globe, where they attain the status of primary pests. Cucumber moth, Diaphania indica , is a potentially damaging pest of cucurbitaceous vegetables worldwide ( Chintha et al, 2002 ; Kinjo and Arakaki, 2002 ; Hosseinzade et al, 2014 ; Dai et al, 2018 ; Jalali et al, 2019 ; Capinera, 2020 ; Debnath et al, 2020 ; Khanzada et al, 2021 ). The attractiveness of cucurbitaceous host plants for D. indica was observed to depend on the species and condition of the plant (uninfested and infested), and sex, mating status and experience of the insect.…”

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Multiple Stressors in Vegetable Production: Insights for Trait-Based Crop Improvement in Cucurbits

2022

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Vegetable production is a key determinant of contribution from the agricultural sector toward national Gross Domestic Product in a country like India, the second largest producer of fresh vegetables in the world. This calls for a careful scrutiny of the threats to vegetable farming in the event of climate extremes, environmental degradation and incidence of plant pests/diseases. Cucurbits are a vast group of vegetables grown almost throughout the world, which contribute to the daily diet on a global scale. Increasing food supply to cater to the ever-increasing world population, calls for intensive, off-season and year-round cultivation of cucurbits. Current situation predisposes these crops to a multitude of stressors, often simultaneously, under field conditions. This scenario warrants a systematic understanding of the different stress specific traits/mechanisms/pathways and their crosstalk that have been examined in cucurbits and identification of gaps and formulation of perspectives on prospective research directions. The careful dissection of plant responses under specific production environments will help in trait identification for genotype selection, germplasm screens to identify superior donors or for direct genetic manipulation by modern tools for crop improvement. Cucurbits exhibit a wide range of acclimatory responses to both biotic and abiotic stresses, among which a few like morphological characters like waxiness of cuticle; primary and secondary metabolic adjustments; membrane thermostability, osmoregulation and, protein and reactive oxygen species homeostasis and turnover contributing to cellular tolerance, appear to be common and involved in cross talk under combinatorial stress exposures. This is assumed to have profound influence in triggering system level acclimation responses that safeguard growth and metabolism. The possible strategies attempted such as grafting initiatives, molecular breeding, novel genetic manipulation avenues like gene editing and ameliorative stress mitigation approaches, have paved way to unravel the prospects for combined stress tolerance. The advent of next generation sequencing technologies and big data management of the omics output generated have added to the mettle of such emanated concepts and ideas. In this review, we attempt to compile the progress made in deciphering the biotic and abiotic stress responses of cucurbits and their associated traits, both individually and in combination.

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Multiple Stressors in Vegetable Production: Insights for Trait-Based Crop Improvement in Cucurbits

2022

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“…Due to heavy secretions of the sugary exudate called honeydew, the sooty mold grows on leaves, resulting in a reduction of photosynthesis (Perring et al, 2018). Aphids can transmit certain plant viruses, causing the heaviest damage with deformation of leaves, buds, and flowers, stunting of plants, and producing plant galls (Capinera, 2020). The green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer), is considered to be the most economically important aphid species, causing damage to over 40 different plant families, and spreading viruses to over 30 plant families, including Crucifers and Solanaceous crops (van Emden and Harrington, 2007).…”

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Insecticide Resistance, Resistance Mechanisms, and Phylogeny of Three <em>Myzus persicae</em> Populations in Cabbage from Three Agroclimatic Zones of Sri Lanka

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“…The striped cucumber beetle, Acalymma vittatum (F.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), is a specialist herbivore of cucurbit crops, native to North America east of the Rocky Mountains. It is the primary pest of these crops in northeastern and midwestern USA and eastern Canada, mainly through damage to seedlings and young plants [ 1 , 2 ], as well as transmission of the virulent bacterial wilt pathogen Erwinia tracheiphila [ 3 ] ( Figure 1 ). Adults feed primarily on above-ground parts of Cucurbitaceae and larvae primarily underground.…”

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“…Females lay a total of several hundred eggs near the base of host plants. Larvae have three instars lasting a total of 11 to 45 days [ 1 , 2 ]. Like many species in the tribe Luperini, including the related genus Diabrotica , A. vittatum are arrested by and stimulated to feed on cucurbitacins, the bitter compounds present in their host plants.…”

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“…Management of striped cucumber beetles is primarily with broad-spectrum insecticides such as pyrethroids and neonicotinoids. However, chemical control is not always effective because of the mobility of adults and the cryptic feeding of the larvae, and it poses a distinct risk to the pollinators necessary for production of the harvested fruits [ 1 ]. Other management tactics [ 2 , 6 , 7 , 8 ] include transplanting instead of direct seeding, to reduce plant vulnerability in the field, physical protection with row covers up until flowering, trap cropping by planting border rows of highly attractive cultivars, intercropping, and mulching.…”

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Transcriptome Sequencing of the Striped Cucumber Beetle, Acalymma vittatum (F.), Reveals Numerous Sex-Specific Transcripts and Xenobiotic Detoxification Genes

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Acalymma vittatum (F.), the striped cucumber beetle, is an important pest of cucurbit crops in the contintental United States, damaging plants through both direct feeding and vectoring of a bacterial wilt pathogen. Besides providing basic biological knowledge, biosequence data for A. vittatum would be useful towards the development of molecular biopesticides to complement existing population control methods. However, no such datasets currently exist. In this study, three biological replicates apiece of male and female adult insects were sequenced and assembled into a set of 630,139 transcripts (of which 232,899 exhibited hits to one or more sequences in NCBI NR). Quantitative analyses identified 2898 genes differentially expressed across the male–female divide, and qualitative analyses characterized the insect’s resistome, comprising the glutathione S-transferase, carboxylesterase, and cytochrome P450 monooxygenase families of xenobiotic detoxification genes. In summary, these data provide useful insights into genes associated with sex differentiation and this beetle’s innate genetic capacity to develop resistance to synthetic pesticides; furthermore, these genes may serve as useful targets for potential use in molecular-based biocontrol technologies.

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Other Invertebrate Pests

Cited by 12 publications

References 137 publications

Multiple Stressors in Vegetable Production: Insights for Trait-Based Crop Improvement in Cucurbits

Multiple Stressors in Vegetable Production: Insights for Trait-Based Crop Improvement in Cucurbits

Insecticide Resistance, Resistance Mechanisms, and Phylogeny of Three <em>Myzus persicae</em> Populations in Cabbage from Three Agroclimatic Zones of Sri Lanka

Transcriptome Sequencing of the Striped Cucumber Beetle, Acalymma vittatum (F.), Reveals Numerous Sex-Specific Transcripts and Xenobiotic Detoxification Genes

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