Plant–Pathogen Interactions: What Is Proteomics Telling Us?
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 April 2021) | Viewed by 274
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Most plant viruses are transmitted by insects, such as aphids, whitefly, planthoppers, and thrips. Plant viruses alter the preferences or behavior of their insect vector to enhance transmission efficiency and spread. As plant virus infections induce chemical and physical changes in the host to efficiently transmit from plant to plant, they also affect non-vectored insects. In contrast to the interaction among viruses, plants, and vectored insects, plant viruses have not only positive effects but also negative effects for non-vectored insects.
Over the past few decades, several studies have been performed to analyze plant–virus-vector interactions. Recently, transcriptome and proteome analyses have contributed to the integration of identified genes and protein function and expression profiles. For example, defense-related genes and proteins of the host plants expressed by viral infection have been identified as key factors in the preference of vector insects and extensive information has been accumulated on this topic. However, virus-plant interactions related to the preference of the vector is still an open discussion. Therefore, the genes and proteins involved in insect behavior and expressed during plant–virus interactions reported previously should be highlighted and discussed in papers submitted to this Special Issue.
Dr. Yasuhiro Tomitaka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- virus;
- insect;
- host plant;
- transmission;
- proteome;
- volatiles;
- defense;
- gene expression;
- interaction;
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