Bhowmick Tushar Suvra, Das Mayukh, Heinz Kevin M, Krauter Peter C, Gonzalez Carlos F
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA; Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX, USA.
Bacteriophage. 2016 Aug 2;6(3):e1218411. doi: 10.1080/21597081.2016.1218411. eCollection 2016 Jul-Sep.
subsp. () is the causal agent of Pierce's Disease (PD) of grapevines and is vectored by the glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS, ). Previously we have reported the development of a bacteriophage (phage) based biocontrol system for PD, but no information on insect transmission of phages has been reported. Here we communicate that laboratory reared GWSSs fed on cowpea plants ( subsp. ) harboring the virulent phage Paz were able to uptake of phage efficiently when the phage was present in high concentration, but were inefficient in transfer to plants.
亚种（）是葡萄皮尔氏病（PD）的病原体，由玻璃翅叶蝉（GWSS，）传播。此前我们报道了一种基于噬菌体的葡萄皮尔氏病生物防治系统的开发，但尚未有关于噬菌体昆虫传播的信息报道。在此我们表明，以携带烈性噬菌体Paz的豇豆植株（亚种）为食的实验室饲养的GWSS，在噬菌体浓度高时能够有效摄取噬菌体，但向植物的传播效率较低。
