The tarnished plant bug: Cause of potato rot? — An episode in mid-nineteenth-century entomology and plant pathology

WheelerJr., A. G.

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“…Our review does not encompass either phytotoxaemia, i.e., the case when MB feeding symptoms can be confused with those caused by chewing insects, drought, hail, high temperatures, insufficient pollination, mechanical injury, nutrient deficiency or toxicity, and pollution, but especially with plant disease symptoms (Wheeler Jr 2001), including those resulting from infection by PFO (Hori 2000;Gopalan and Subramaniam 1978). Interestingly, even the potato late blight disease was mistakenly proposed to be caused by the plant bug Lygus lineolaris (Wheeler Jr 1981).…”

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Three-way interactions between crop plants, phytopathogenic fungi, and mirid bugs. A review

Ratnadass¹,

Deguine

2020

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Miridae is the largest Heteroptera family, with a tremendous worldwide economic impact, both as pests and natural enemies. Unlike most Hemiptera, herbivorous and omnivorous mirid bugs are lacerate/macerate and flush feeders, not phloem feeders. Plant responses to damage by arthropods of this feeding guild therefore occur via jasmonic acid or ethylene signaling pathways rather than the salicylic acid pathway. Moreover, unlike most other Heteroptera that lay eggs on the plant surface, mirids insert their eggs in plant tissues, resulting in oviposition injury. Similarly, regarding phytopathogenic fungi and oomycetes, a distinction should be made between biotrophic fungi (triggering the salicylic acid pathway plant response), and necrotrophic and/or hemibiotrophic fungi or oomycetes (triggering jasmonic acid or ethylene pathway plant responses). In that respect, phytopathogenic fungi or oomycetes (PFO) differ from phytopathogenic viruses and bacteria, the former being all biotrophic while the latter are theoretically hemibiotrophic. Here, for the first time, we review tripartite interactions between mirids, PFO, and crop plants. The major deliverables are as follows: Five major interaction frameworks are identified: (i) crop plant infection by PFO mechanically facilitated by prior mirid infestation; (ii) crop plant infection by PFO hampered by prior mirid infestation via crop plant signaling; (iii) crop plant infestation by mirids facilitated by prior PFO infection via crop plant signaling; (iv) crop plant infestation by mirids hampered by prior PFO infection via crop plant signaling; (v) crop plant infestation by mirids and/or infection by PFO hampered by prior mirid infestation and/or PFO infection via crop plant resource quality alteration. PFO and mirids may also occur concomitantly, favored by the same conditions, i.e., climatic or linked to endogeneous factors (e.g., redox status) in crop plant. Instances from each framework are described, and highlighted interactions are examined in view of managing mirid-PFO complexes on crop plants.

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Three-way interactions between crop plants, phytopathogenic fungi, and mirid bugs. A review

Ratnadass¹,

Deguine

2020

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Simon Snyder Rathvon: Popularizer of Agricultural Entomology in Mid-19th Century America

Wheeler¹

2006

American Entomologist

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The Voyages of a Potato Companion: Phytophthora Infestans

Cottyn,

Beeckaert,

Bruneel

2023

Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman

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Accompanying a shipment of potatoes in 1845, a fungus-like traveller unintentionally made it to Europe, after having maintained a low profile for centuries in Latin America. Decades later, scientists identified this stowaway as the basic ingredient for an outbreak of potato late blight and gave it a name—Phytophthora infestans. By following the potato on its travels back and forth between its cradle in the Andes and its development into a monocrop food staple in Europe over the last centuries, we trace the transatlantic trajectories of its fungal companion. We explore when and why a fungus such as P. infestans became known, and feared, as an invasive species, after centuries of spontaneous and invisible co-existence with the potato in Latin America. Why could P. infestans suddenly come out of its companion’s shadow to cause a large-scale outbreak of the disease in Europe in the 1840s? How did it become a driving power for the development of plant sciences and related technological innovations in potato agriculture up until today? Since the late eighteenth-century, specific agricultural, scientific, and political practices have enacted a logic of ‘potato modernity’, subjecting the potato to an artificial monoculture regime. Abruptly interrupting centuries of multispecies co-habitation of a fungus, the potato, and humans, P. infestans was invented as an invasive intruder that needed to be contained and conquered.

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The tarnished plant bug: Cause of potato rot? — An episode in mid-nineteenth-century entomology and plant pathology

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Three-way interactions between crop plants, phytopathogenic fungi, and mirid bugs. A review

Three-way interactions between crop plants, phytopathogenic fungi, and mirid bugs. A review

Simon Snyder Rathvon: Popularizer of Agricultural Entomology in Mid-19th Century America

The Voyages of a Potato Companion: Phytophthora Infestans

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