Wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella, and transmitted viruses: an expanding pest complex affecting cereal crops

• Autores: Navia, Denise; Mendonça, Renata Santos de; Skoracka, Anna; Szydło, Wiktoria; Knihinicki, Danuta; Hein, Gary L.; Pereira, Paulo Roberto Valle da Silva; Truol, Graciela Ana Maria; Lau, Douglas
• Año de publicación: 2013
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Fuente: Experimental and Applied Acarology 59 (1–2) : 95–143 (February 2013)
• Materia: Aceria; Acarina; Vectores; Plagas de Plantas; Cultivos de Cereales; Virus de las Plantas; Vectors; Pests of Plants; Cereal Crops; Plant Viruses; Aceria tosichella; Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus; Virus del Mosaico del Rayado del Trigo
• Institución: Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria

The wheat curl mite (WCM), Aceria tosichella, and the plant viruses it transmits represent an invasive mite-virus complex that has affected cereal crops worldwide. The main damage caused by WCM comes from its ability to transmit and spread multiple damaging viruses to cereal crops, with Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) and Wheat mosaic virus (WMoV) being the most important. Although WCM and transmitted viruses have been of concern to cereal growers and researchers for at least six decades, they continue to represent a challenge. In older affected areas, for example in North America, this mite-virus complex still has significant economic impact. In Australia and South America, where this problem has only emerged in the last decade, it represents a new threat to winter cereal production. The difficulties encountered in making progress towards managing WCM and its transmitted viruses stem from the complexity of the pathosystem. The most effective methods for minimizing losses from WCM transmitted viruses in cereal crops have previously focused on cultural and plant resistance methods. This paper brings together information on biological and ecological aspects of WCM, including its taxonomic status, occurrence, host plant range, damage symptoms and economic impact. Information about the main viruses transmitted by WCM is also included and the epidemiological relationships involved in this vectored complex of viruses are also addressed. Management strategies that have been directed at this mite-virus complex are presented, including plant resistance, its history, difficulties and advances. Current research perspectives to address this invasive mite-virus complex and minimize cereal crop losses worldwide are also discussed.
Instituto de Patología Vegetal
Fil: Navia, Denise. Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia; Brasil
Fil: Mendonça, Renata Santos de. Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia; Brasil
Fil: Skoracka, Anna. Adam Mickiewicz University. Faculty of Biology. Institute of Environmental Biology. Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology; Polonia
Fil: Szydło, Wiktoria. Adam Mickiewicz University. Faculty of Biology. Institute of Environmental Biology. Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology; Polonia
Fil: Knihinicki, Danuta. Orange Agricultural Institute. Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit. NSW Department of Primary Industries; Australia
Fil: Hein, Gary L. University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Estados Unidos
Fil: Pereira, Paulo Roberto Valle da Silva. Embrapa Trigo; Brasil
Fil: Truol, Graciela Ana Maria. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Patología Vegetal; Argentina
Fil: Lau, Douglas. Embrapa Trigo; Brasil