The whitefly Bemisia tabaci is a major pest to agricultural crops. It transmits begomoviruses,
such as Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), in a circular, persistent fashion …

Background Schizaphis graminum is one of the most important and devastating cereal
aphids worldwide, and its feeding can cause chlorosis and necrosis in wheat. However, little …

Brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens Stål, BPH) is one of the most destructive insects
affecting rice production. To better understand the physiological mechanisms of how rice …

Verticillium wilt that is caused by Verticillium dahliae, does result in massive annual yield
losses and fiber quality decline in cotton. Control by conventional mechanisms is not …

Verticillium wilt causes dramatic cotton yield loss in China. Although some genes or
biological processes involved in the interaction between cotton and Verticillium dahliae …

Cotton Verticillium wilt, caused by the notorious fungal phytopathogen Verticillium dahliae
(V. dahliae), is a destructive soil-borne vascular disease and severely decreases cotton …

Aphis gossypii, commonly known as the cotton aphid, is a widely distributed pest of
agricultural crops and acts as a vector for many serious plant viruses. Cotton aphid shows …

The fall armyworm (FAW) poses a significant threat to global crop production. Here we
showed that overexpression of jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) protein GhJAZ24 confers …

Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades play a crucial role in plant growth and
development, as well as their biotic and abiotic stress responses. As a nodal point of the …

We examined ways in which the Brown planthopper induced008a (Bphi008a; AY256682)
gene of rice (Oryza sativa) enhances the plant's resistance to a specialist herbivore, the …