Mubarik Muhammad Salman, Khan Sultan Habibullah, Ahmad Aftab, Raza Ali, Khan Zulqurnain, Sajjad Muhammad, Sammour Reda Helmy Ahmed, Mustafa Abd El-Zaher M A, Al-Ghamdi Abdullah Ahmed, Alajmi Amal H, Alshamasi Fatin K I, Elshikh Mohamed Soliman
Centre for Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan.
Center of Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security (CAS-AFS), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan.
Plants (Basel). 2020 Nov 12;9(11):1556. doi: 10.3390/plants9111556.
Whitefly ()-transmitted Geminiviruses cause serious diseases of crop plants in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Plants, animals, and their microbial symbionts have evolved complex ways to interact with each other that impact their life cycles. Blocking virus transmission by altering the biology of vector species, such as the whitefly, can be a potential approach to manage these devastating diseases. Virus transmission by insect vectors to plant hosts often involves bacterial endosymbionts. Molecular chaperonins of bacterial endosymbionts bind with virus particles and have a key role in the transmission of Geminiviruses. Hence, devising new approaches to obstruct virus transmission by manipulating bacterial endosymbionts before infection opens new avenues for viral disease control. The exploitation of bacterial endosymbiont within the insect vector would disrupt interactions among viruses, insects, and their bacterial endosymbionts. The study of this cooperating web could potentially decrease virus transmission and possibly represent an effective solution to control viral diseases in crop plants.
粉虱传播的双生病毒会在热带和亚热带地区引发作物的严重病害。植物、动物及其微生物共生体已经进化出复杂的相互作用方式，这些方式会影响它们的生命周期。通过改变诸如粉虱等传病介体的生物学特性来阻断病毒传播，可能是控制这些毁灭性病害的一种潜在方法。昆虫介体将病毒传播到植物宿主的过程通常涉及细菌内共生体。细菌内共生体的分子伴侣蛋白与病毒粒子结合，在双生病毒的传播中起关键作用。因此，在感染前通过操纵细菌内共生体来设计新的方法阻碍病毒传播，为病毒性疾病的控制开辟了新途径。利用昆虫介体内的细菌内共生体将破坏病毒、昆虫及其细菌内共生体之间的相互作用。对这个协作网络的研究有可能减少病毒传播，并可能成为控制作物病毒性疾病的有效解决方案。
