Using Wolbachia to control rice planthopper populations: progress and challenges

Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbiology

Yan Guo¹  Jiayi Shao¹  Yanxian Wu¹  Yifeng Li² 

[1] Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of High Technology for Plant Protection, Institute of Plant Protection, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Green Prevention and Control on Fruits and Vegetables in South China Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangzhou, China;null;

关键词: Wolbachia;    mosquitoes;    planthoppers;    transmission;    cytoplasmic incompatibility;    pathogen inhibition;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmicb.2023.1244239

 received in 2023-06-22, accepted in 2023-08-24,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Wolbachia have been developed as a tool for protecting humans from mosquito populations and mosquito-borne diseases. The success of using Wolbachia relies on the facts that Wolbachia are maternally transmitted and that Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility provides a selective advantage to infected over uninfected females, ensuring that Wolbachia rapidly spread through the target pest population. Most transinfected Wolbachia exhibit a strong antiviral response in novel hosts, thus making it an extremely efficient technique. Although Wolbachia has only been used to control mosquitoes so far, great progress has been made in developing Wolbachia-based approaches to protect plants from rice pests and their associated diseases. Here, we synthesize the current knowledge about the important phenotypic effects of Wolbachia used to control mosquito populations and the literature on the interactions between Wolbachia and rice pest planthoppers. Our aim is to link findings from Wolbachia-mediated mosquito control programs to possible applications in planthoppers.

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