Plant health and productivity is strongly influenced by their intimate interaction with deleterious and beneficial organisms, including microbes, and insects. Of the various plant diseases, insect-...

Currently, huanglongbing is the most damaging disease of citrus causing huge economic losses. The disease is caused by the Gram- negative bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas). The pat...

Hemipteran insects are devastating pests of crops due to their wide host range, rapid reproduction, and ability to transmit numerous plant-infecting pathogens as vectors. While the field of plant-v...