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Liberibacter Asiaticus
''Liberibacter'' is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the Rhizobiaceae family. Detection of the liberibacteria is based on PCR amplification of their 16S rRNA gene with specific primers. Members of the genus are plant pathogens mostly transmitted by psyllids. The genus was originally spelled ''Liberobacter''. Most importantly, ''Liberibacter'' is a causative agent of Huanglongbing disease (HLB) also known as citrus greening disease. ''Liberibacter'' is transmitted by two insects from Psyllidae family – ''Diaphorina citri'' in Asia, Brazil and Florida, and '' Trioza erytreae'' in Africa. The Asian HLB strain, "''Candidatus'' Liberibacter asiaticus" is more heat tolerant, while the African strain, ''Candidatus'' Liberibacter africanus is asymptomatic at temperatures above 30 °C. Species of ''Liberibacter'', infecting solanaceous plants has been identified and it was carried by another psyllid, a potato pest ''Bactericera cockerelli''. Pathogenicty ''Liberibacter'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bactericera Cockerelli
''Bactericera cockerelli'', also known as the potato psyllid, is a species of Psylloidea, psyllid native to southern North America. Its range extends from Central America north to the American Pacific Northwest and parts of Manitoba, in Canada. It is restricted to the western part of the continent. As its name suggests, it is commonly found on potato and tomato crops, but has a species range that encompasses over 40 species of Solanaceae, solanaceous plants and as many as 20 genera. Breeding hosts are generally recognised as being restricted primarily to Solanaceae, including important crop and common weed species, and a few species of Convolvulaceae, including bindweed and sweet potato. On some plants, especially potato, feeding of the nymphs causes a condition called psyllid yellows, presumed to be the result of a toxin. Both nymphs and adults can transmit the bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter. Zebra chip is a recently diagnosed disease of potatoes associated with psyll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lipopolysaccharide
Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are large molecules consisting of a lipid and a polysaccharide that are bacterial toxins. They are composed of an O-antigen, an outer core, and an inner core all joined by a covalent bond, and are found in the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. Today, the term ''endotoxin'' is often used synonymously with LPS, although there are a few endotoxins (in the original sense of toxins that are inside the bacterial cell that are released when the cell disintegrates) that are not related to LPS, such as the so-called delta endotoxin proteins produced by '' Bacillus thuringiensis''. Lipopolysaccharides can have substantial impacts on human health, primarily through interactions with the immune system. LPS is a potent activator of the immune system and pyrogen (agent that causes fever). In severe cases, LPS can play a role in causing septic shock. In lower levels and over a longer time period, there is evidence LPS may play an important and harmful role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cacopsylla Pyri
''Psylla pyri'', commonly known as the pear psylla or pear psyllid, is an insect in the family Psyllidae. Originating in Europe and Asia, it has spread to North America. It is a pest of pear trees, sucking the sap, damaging the foliage, flowers and fruit and diminishing the crop. Description The adult ''Psylla pyri'' is between long. The colour is variable, ranging between orange-red and black, the thorax having whitish longitudinal stripes on its upper surface. The wings are transparent, with dark veins and sometimes a smoky appearance near the base. Later instar nymphs are purplish-brown or reddish-brown, with white longitudinal stripes and black patches; the developing wing-pads each bear a single knobbed bristle. The younger nymphs are yellowish with red-purple eyes. Distribution The species is found in Europe, including Scandinavia, and in Asia. In Britain it used to be very rare, with only one record before 1969, but since then it has become much more common, especially i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumping Plant Louse
Psyllidae, the jumping plant lice or psyllids, are a family of small plant-feeding insects that tend to be very host-specific, i.e. each plant-louse species only feeds on one plant species (monophagous) or feeds on a few closely related plants (oligophagous). Together with aphids, phylloxerans, scale insects and whiteflies, they form the group called Sternorrhyncha, which is considered to be the most "primitive" group within the true bugs (Hemiptera). They have traditionally been considered a single family, Psyllidae, but recent classifications divide the group into a total of seven families; the present restricted definition still includes more than 70 genera in the Psyllidae. Psyllid fossils have been found from the Early Permian before the flowering plants evolved. The explosive diversification of the flowering plants in the Cretaceous was paralleled by a massive diversification of associated insects, and many of the morphological and metabolic characters that the flowering p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pear
Pears are fruits produced and consumed around the world, growing on a tree and harvested in the Northern Hemisphere in late summer into October. The pear tree and shrub are a species of genus ''Pyrus'' , in the family Rosaceae, bearing the pomaceous fruit of the same name. Several species of pears are valued for their edible fruit and juices, while others are cultivated as trees. The tree is medium-sized and native to coastal and mildly temperate regions of Europe, North Africa, and Asia. Pear wood is one of the preferred materials in the manufacture of high-quality woodwind instruments and furniture. About 3,000 known varieties of pears are grown worldwide, which vary in both shape and taste. The fruit is consumed fresh, canned, as juice, or dried. Etymology The word ''pear'' is probably from Germanic ''pera'' as a loanword of Vulgar Latin ''pira'', the plural of ''pirum'', akin to Greek ''apios'' (from Mycenaean ''ápisos''), of Semitic origin (''pirâ''), meaning "fru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberibacter Europaeus
''Liberibacter'' is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the Rhizobiaceae family. Detection of the liberibacteria is based on PCR amplification of their 16S rRNA gene with specific primers. Members of the genus are plant pathogens mostly transmitted by psyllids. The genus was originally spelled ''Liberobacter''. Most importantly, ''Liberibacter'' is a causative agent of Huanglongbing disease (HLB) also known as citrus greening disease. ''Liberibacter'' is transmitted by two insects from Psyllidae family – ''Diaphorina citri'' in Asia, Brazil and Florida, and '' Trioza erytreae'' in Africa. The Asian HLB strain, "''Candidatus'' Liberibacter asiaticus" is more heat tolerant, while the African strain, ''Candidatus'' Liberibacter africanus is asymptomatic at temperatures above 30 °C. Species of ''Liberibacter'', infecting solanaceous plants has been identified and it was carried by another psyllid, a potato pest ''Bactericera cockerelli''. Pathogenicty ''Liberibacter'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberibacter Crescens
''Liberibacter'' is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the Rhizobiaceae family. Detection of the liberibacteria is based on PCR amplification of their 16S rRNA gene with specific primers. Members of the genus are plant pathogens mostly transmitted by psyllids. The genus was originally spelled ''Liberobacter''. Most importantly, ''Liberibacter'' is a causative agent of Huanglongbing disease (HLB) also known as citrus greening disease. ''Liberibacter'' is transmitted by two insects from Psyllidae family – ''Diaphorina citri'' in Asia, Brazil and Florida, and '' Trioza erytreae'' in Africa. The Asian HLB strain, "''Candidatus'' Liberibacter asiaticus" is more heat tolerant, while the African strain, ''Candidatus'' Liberibacter africanus is asymptomatic at temperatures above 30 °C. Species of ''Liberibacter'', infecting solanaceous plants has been identified and it was carried by another psyllid, a potato pest ''Bactericera cockerelli''. Pathogenicty ''Liberibacter'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acizzia Solanicola
''Acizzia solanicola'' is a psyllid from Australia, found on plants of the genus ''Solanum''. It has subsequently been found also in New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ....Taylor, G.S.; Kent, D.S. 2013: Potential economic pests of solanaceous crops: a new species of ''Solanum''-feeding psyllid from Australia and first record from New Zealand of ''Acizzia solanicola'' (Hemiptera: Psyllidae). ''Zootaxa'', 3613(3): 257-273. References External links Psyllidae Hemiptera of Australia Insects described in 2010 {{Sternorrhyncha-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberibacter Brunswickensis
''Liberibacter'' is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the Rhizobiaceae family. Detection of the liberibacteria is based on PCR amplification of their 16S rRNA gene with specific primers. Members of the genus are plant pathogens mostly transmitted by psyllids. The genus was originally spelled ''Liberobacter''. Most importantly, ''Liberibacter'' is a causative agent of Huanglongbing disease (HLB) also known as citrus greening disease. ''Liberibacter'' is transmitted by two insects from Psyllidae family – ''Diaphorina citri'' in Asia, Brazil and Florida, and '' Trioza erytreae'' in Africa. The Asian HLB strain, "''Candidatus'' Liberibacter asiaticus" is more heat tolerant, while the African strain, ''Candidatus'' Liberibacter africanus is asymptomatic at temperatures above 30 °C. Species of ''Liberibacter'', infecting solanaceous plants has been identified and it was carried by another psyllid, a potato pest ''Bactericera cockerelli''. Pathogenicty ''Liberibacter'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberibacter Asiaticus
''Liberibacter'' is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the Rhizobiaceae family. Detection of the liberibacteria is based on PCR amplification of their 16S rRNA gene with specific primers. Members of the genus are plant pathogens mostly transmitted by psyllids. The genus was originally spelled ''Liberobacter''. Most importantly, ''Liberibacter'' is a causative agent of Huanglongbing disease (HLB) also known as citrus greening disease. ''Liberibacter'' is transmitted by two insects from Psyllidae family – ''Diaphorina citri'' in Asia, Brazil and Florida, and '' Trioza erytreae'' in Africa. The Asian HLB strain, "''Candidatus'' Liberibacter asiaticus" is more heat tolerant, while the African strain, ''Candidatus'' Liberibacter africanus is asymptomatic at temperatures above 30 °C. Species of ''Liberibacter'', infecting solanaceous plants has been identified and it was carried by another psyllid, a potato pest ''Bactericera cockerelli''. Pathogenicty ''Liberibacter'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberibacter Americanus
''Liberibacter'' is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the Rhizobiaceae family. Detection of the liberibacteria is based on PCR amplification of their 16S rRNA gene with specific primers. Members of the genus are plant pathogens mostly transmitted by psyllids. The genus was originally spelled ''Liberobacter''. Most importantly, ''Liberibacter'' is a causative agent of Huanglongbing disease (HLB) also known as citrus greening disease. ''Liberibacter'' is transmitted by two insects from Psyllidae family – ''Diaphorina citri'' in Asia, Brazil and Florida, and '' Trioza erytreae'' in Africa. The Asian HLB strain, "''Candidatus'' Liberibacter asiaticus" is more heat tolerant, while the African strain, ''Candidatus'' Liberibacter africanus is asymptomatic at temperatures above 30 °C. Species of ''Liberibacter'', infecting solanaceous plants has been identified and it was carried by another psyllid, a potato pest ''Bactericera cockerelli''. Pathogenicty ''Liberibacter'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citrus Greening Disease
Citrus greening disease (; or HLB) is a disease of citrus caused by a vector-transmitted pathogen. The causative agents are motile bacteria, ''Liberibacter'' spp. The disease is vectored and transmitted by the Asian citrus psyllid, ''Diaphorina citri'', and the African citrus psyllid, '' Trioza erytreae'', also known as the two-spotted citrus psyllid. It has also been shown to be graft-transmissible. Three different types of HLB are currently known: the heat-tolerant Asian form, and the heat-sensitive African and American forms. The disease was first described in 1929 and first reported in China in 1943. The African variation was first reported in 1947 in South Africa, where it is still widespread. Eventually, it affected the United States, reaching Florida in 2005. Within three years, it had spread to the majority of citrus farms. The rapid increase in this disease has threatened the citrus industry not only in Florida, but the entire US. As of 2009, 33 countries have reported HL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
