Phytopathogens are responsible for devastating plant diseases threatening agriculture and
food security worldwide. Phloem-restricted bacterial plant pathogens belonging to the …

Some pathogenic phloem‐limited bacteria are a major threat for worldwide agriculture due
to the heavy economic losses caused to many high‐value crops. These disease agents …

We analysed a phylogenomic dataset comprising 730 terminal taxa and> 160,000
nucleotide positions obtained using anchored hybrid enrichment of genomic DNA for a …

Abstract “Candidatus Sulcia muelleri”(Sulcia) is a diverse lineage of intracellular nutritional
endosymbiotic bacteria strictly associated with auchenorrhynchous hemipteran insects …

Stone fruits are a multibillion-dollar industry for the United States and Canada, one that has
repeatedly suffered significant economic losses due to outbreaks of the X-disease …

Highlights•Expansions and losses of immune genes are an important component of
evolutionary change across species.•Transcriptional response to infection involves diverse …

Phytoplasmas are insect-borne pathogenic bacteria that cause major economic losses to
several crops worldwide. The dynamic microbial community associated with insect vectors …

Insect vectors transmit viruses and bacteria that can cause severe diseases in plants and
economic losses due to a decrease in crop production. Insect vectors, like all other …

RNA interference (RNAi) regulates gene expression in eukaryotes, and it is an emerging
tool in crop protection by exogenous applications of double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) to …

Insect immunity is a crucial process in interactions between host and microorganisms and
the presence of pathogenic, commensal, or beneficial bacteria may result in different …