Summer Weeds as Hosts for Frankliniella occidentalis and Frankliniella fusca (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and as Reservoirs for Tomato Spotted Wilt Tospovirus in North Carolina

2005 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 1810-1815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noah D. Kahn ◽  
J. F. Walgenbach ◽  
G. G. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Frankliniella Occidentalis ◽  
Tomato Spotted Wilt ◽  
Frankliniella Fusca

scholarly journals Survival and Reproductive Success of Tobacco Thrips on Three Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Infected and Noninfected Peanut Cultivars

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. E. Garcia ◽  
G. G. Kennedy ◽  
R. L. Brandenburg
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Mixed Model Analysis ◽  
Tomato Spotted Wilt ◽  
Frankliniella Fusca ◽  
Tobacco Thrips ◽  
Peanut Cultivars ◽  
Wilt Virus

Abstract A comparison of the survival and reproductive success of Frankliniella fusca (Hinds) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) on tomato spotted wilt virus (Bunyviridae: Tospovirus) (TSWV) infected and uninfected peanut plants was conducted under greenhouse conditions in North Carolina. Three cultivars—NC 9, NC-V11, and NC 12C—adapted to North Carolina production practices were evaluated. A total of 180 individually caged plants, in three replicates, were infested with 20 female F. fusca each. Adult and larval thrips were collected after 30 d on the plants. Final counts were square root transformed and a mixed model analysis of variance conducted. Effects of cultivar and the virus-by-cultivar interaction were not statistically significant. TSWV-infected plants had significantly fewer adult and larval F. fusca than did uninfected plants for adults (P = 0.04) and for larvae (P = 0.01). This study reports on an alternative method of assessing TSWV resistance among peanut cultivars and the trend appears to support the conclusions of a previous field study, which found NC 9 more susceptible to TSWV than either NC-V11 or NC 12C.

scholarly journals The Role of Weed Hosts and Tobacco Thrips, Frankliniella fusca, in the Epidemiology of Tomato spotted wilt virus

Plant Disease ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 573-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Groves ◽  
J. F. Walgenbach ◽  
J. W. Moyer ◽  
G. G. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Vector Species ◽  
Stellaria Media ◽  
Sonchus Asper ◽  
Perennial Plant ◽  
Tomato Spotted Wilt ◽  
Frankliniella Fusca ◽  
Tobacco Thrips ◽  
Wilt Virus

Wild plant species were systematically sampled to characterize reproduction of thrips, the vector of Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), and natural sources TSWV infection. Thrips populations were monitored on 28 common perennial, biennial, and annual plant species over two noncrop seasons at six field locations across North Carolina. Sonchus asper, Stellaria media, and Taraxacum officianale consistently supported the largest populations of immature TSWV vector species. The tobacco thrips, Frankliniella fusca, was the most abundant TSWV vector species collected, comprising over 95% of vector species in each survey season. Perennial plant species (i.e., Plantago rugelii and Taraxacum officianale) were often only locally abundant, and many annual species (Cerastium vulgatum, Sonchus asper, and Stellaria media) were more widely distributed. Perennial species, including P. rugelii and Rumex crispus, remained TSWV infected for 2 years in a small-plot field test. Where these perennial species are locally abundant, they may serve as important and long-lasting TSWV inoculum sources. In random surveys across 12 locations in North Carolina, TSWV infection was documented by double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in 35 of 72 (49%) common perennial (N = 10), biennial (N = 4), and annual (N = 21) plant species across 18 plant families. Estimated rates of TSWV infection were highest in Cerastium vulgatum (4.2%), Lactuca scariola (1.3%), Molluga verticillata (4.3%), Plantago rugelii (3.4%), Ranunculus sardous (3.6%), Sonchus asper (5.1%), Stellaria media (1.4%), and Taraxacum officianale (5.8%). Nine plant species were determined to be new host recordings for TSWV infection, including Cardamine hirsuta, Eupatorium capillifolium, Geranium carolinianum, Gnaphalium purpureum, Linaria canadense, Molluga verticillata, Pyrrhopappus carolinianus, Raphanus raphanistrum, and Triodanis perfoliata. Our findings document the relative potential of a number of common annual, biennial, and perennial plant species to act as important reproductive sites for F. fusca and as acquisition sources of TSWV for spread to susceptible crops.

Some characteristics of the thrip vector relationship of tomato spotted wilt virus in Canada

1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 402-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. C. Paliwal
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus ◽  
Frankliniella Occidentalis ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Thrips Tabaci ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Tomato Spotted Wilt ◽  
Frankliniella Fusca ◽  
Wilt Virus ◽  
Relationship Of

Two isolates of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) from British Columbia were transmitted by Frankliniella occidentalis, which is common in British Columbia but does not occur in eastern Canada. Frankliniella occidentalis from B.C. transmitted the virus to a smaller proportion of Emilia plants as compared with Frankliniella fusca, a known vector that occurs in eastern Canada, after a 48-h acquisition feeding as nymphs on infected Emilia leaves. Neither isolate of the virus was transmitted by Thrips tabaci, which is a vector of TSWV in some other countries. Males and females and macropterous and brachypterous forms of F. fusca did not differ significantly in their vector ability. TSWV was detected serologically in homogenates of 50 ‘exposed' F. fusca (first-generation adults reared on newly infected plants) but was difficult to detect in homogenates prepared from these thrips 2 weeks later. Thrip transmissibility of the virus declined considerably when propagated for long periods without passage through the thrip vector.

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