Publications by authors named "Derek J Schneweis"
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- The western flower thrips, a major agricultural pest, has its first genome sequenced, revealing important genetic data that can help understand its biology and resistance to pesticides.
- The genome assembly is notably GC-rich, with 16,859 genes identified, including expansions in genes related to environmental sensing and detoxification, which are crucial for survival in agricultural settings.
- Findings also highlight unique aspects of thrips development and immune response, such as the lack of certain immune genes, providing valuable insights into the pest's behavior and adaptation strategies.
Thrips palmi is a widely distributed major agricultural pest in the tropics and subtropics, causing significant losses in cucurbit and solanaceous crops through feeding damage and transmission of tospoviruses. Thrips palmi is a vector of capsicum chlorosis virus (CaCV) in Australia. The present understanding of transmission biology and potential effects of CaCV on T.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMaize mosaic virus (MMV) is a plant-pathogenic rhabdovirus that is transmitted by the corn planthopper, Peregrinus maidis, in a propagative manner. P. maidis supports long-term MMV infections with no negative effects on insect performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTomato 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 infection process from larval acquisition to adult inoculation of plants. Whole-body transcriptome response to virus infection was determined for first-instar larval, pre-pupal and adult thrips using RNA-Seq.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOne hundred years ago, the disease tomato spotted wilt was first described in Australia. Since that time, knowledge of this disease caused by Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) and transmitted by thrips (insects in the order Thysanoptera) has revealed a complex relationship between the virus, vector, plant host, and environment. Numerous tospoviruses and thrips vectors have been described, revealing diversity in plant host range and geographical distributions.
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