Project description:Begomoviruses, the largest, most damaging and emerging group of plant viruses in the world, infect hundreds of plant species and new virus species of the group are discovered each year. They are transmitted by species of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is one of the most devastating begomoviruses worldwide and causes major losses in tomato crops as well as in many more agriculturally important plant species. Different B. tabaci populations vary in their virus transmission abilities; the causes for these differences are attributed among others to genetic diversity of vector populations, as well as to differences in the bacterial symbiont flora of the insects. Here, we performed discovery proteomic analyses in nine whiteflies populations from both B (MEAM1) and Q (MED) species with different TYLCV transmission abilities. The results provide the first comprehensive list of candidate insect and bacterial symbiont (mainly Rickettsia) proteins associated with virus transmission. Efficient vector populations from two different B. tabaci species over-expressed or downregulated expression of proteins belonging to two different molecular pathways.

2020-10-26 | PXD016964 | Pride

Bemisia tabaci

Project description:Bemisia tabaci Meam1 Genome sequencing and assembly

| PRJNA660561 | ENA

Bemisia tabaci

Project description:Transcriptome sequencing of whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) MEAM1

| PRJNA312467 | ENA

Bemisia tabaci and endosymbionts

Project description:Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) MEAM1 genome sequencing

| PRJNA312470 | ENA

Bemisia tabaci strain:MEAM1

Project description:Bemisia tabaci bacteriocyte sequencing and assembly