Virus/vector interaction for aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) and whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Alexandre Moisés Ericsson de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Cardoso, Léia, Ericsson, Débora Baleeiro de Carvalho, Xavier, Mauro Aparecido de Sousa, Bicalho, Thaís Ferreira, Xavier, Alessandra Rejane Ericsson de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno de Ciências Agrárias (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/ccaufmg/article/view/15153
• topic: Controle de insetos; Interação molecular vírus-vetor; Manejo integrado de pragas; RNAi; Insect control; Molecular interaction virus/vector; Integrated pest management; RNAi

Impact caused by aphids and whiteflies has grown considerably in the last decades, due to the increase in population outbreaks of of these virus-transmitting pests in a variety of economically important crops. The acquisition and transmission of most phytopathogenic viruses by a vector insect is the central point of the cycle of an infection. Plant viruses can interact with their insect hosts in a variety of ways, in some cases even virus replication can occur in insect cells. Virus interaction with your host/vector insects requires specific molecular interactions between virus and host, commonly via proteins, however, which vector  components are involved and how they work to facilitate transmission is not well understood. The focus of the present work was to perform a systematic review on the basic virus/vector relationships in aphids and whiteflies; to show the practices currently used in integrated pest management for aphids and whiteflies and to report how insect vector interactions are opening new doors for the control of insect plant virus vectors using new genetic and computational technologies. The systematic review methodology was used, the work was conducted in stages that involved the development of the review protocol with the research questions, the search strategy, the identification of the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the search in the databases, previously defined, critical evaluation, extraction of relevant data and synthesis. Identification of articles was realized in the PUBMED database  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/. We concluded it is required to combine the use of new technologies such as RNAi with the tools already used in integrated pest management for greater effectiveness of aphid and whitefly control, however, the continued study and application of new molecular technologies in investigating virus-vector interactions will provide further assistance in the control of plant diseases spread by aphid and whitefly in the future.