The complex and specific interplay between thrips, tospoviruses, and their shared plant
hosts leads to outbreaks of crop disease epidemics of economic and social importance. The …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the thrips–tospovirus pathosystem and the cellular
and molecular determinants of thrips acquisition of tospoviruses. Viruses in the genus …

All thrips (order Thysanoptera) that are known to be vectors of plant viruses are identified
and described. Thrips transmit plant viruses in the Tospovirus, Ilarvirus, Carmovirus …

Background The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande), is a globally
invasive pest and plant virus vector on a wide array of food, fiber, and ornamental crops. The …

Plants infected with pathogens often attract the pathogens' vectors, but it is not clear if this is
advantageous to the vectors. We therefore quantified the direct and indirect (through the …

The acquisition of tospoviruses by thrips vectors is restricted to a well defined time period
during the first and early second larval stages, when there is a temporary association …

Iris yellow spot virus (IYSV), a new tospovirus associated with a disease in onion (Allium
cepa) that is known to growers in Israel as “straw bleaching,” was identified and further …

The tospoviruses are a diverse, cosmopolitan and economically important genus of plant
viruses. In the recent past, interest in the tospoviruses has been rekindled with the …

Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is transmitted by Frankliniella occidentalis in a circulative-
propagative manner. Little is known about thrips vector response to TSWV during the …

The development of tomato spotted wilt tospovirus (TSWV) infection in the midgut and
salivary glands of transmitting and non-transmitting thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, was …