Effect of Sugarcane Cultivars Infected with Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Virus (ScYLV) on Feeding Behavior and Biological Performance of Melanaphis sacchari (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

Bertasello, Luiz Eduardo Tilhaqui; Carmo-Sousa, Michele; Prado Maluta, Nathalie K.; Rossini Pinto, Luciana; Spotti Lopes, João R.; Gonçalves, Marcos Cesar

doi:10.3390/plants10102122

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Effect of Sugarcane Cultivars Infected with Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Virus (ScYLV) on Feeding Behavior and Biological Performance of Melanaphis sacchari (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

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Luiz Eduardo Tilhaqui Bertasello

¹

,

Michele Carmo-Sousa

²,

Nathalie K. Prado Maluta

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,

Luciana Rossini Pinto

^1,3,

João R. Spotti Lopes

^2,*

and

Marcos Cesar Gonçalves

^1,4,*

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School of Agricultural and Veterinarian Sciences—FCAV, São Paulo State University—UNESP, Jaboticabal 17884-900, Brazil

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Department of Entomology and Acarology, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ), University of São Paulo, Piracicaba 13418-900, Brazil

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Sugarcane Research Centre, Instituto Agronômico de Campinas—IAC, Ribeirão Preto 14001-970, Brazil

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Crop Protection Research Centre, Instituto Biológico—IB, São Paulo 04014-002, Brazil

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Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Plants 2021, 10(10), 2122; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10102122

Submission received: 8 September 2021 / Revised: 27 September 2021 / Accepted: 27 September 2021 / Published: 6 October 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Insect Vector-Borne Plant Diseases)

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Sugarcane yellow leaf virus (ScYLV), Polerovirus, Luteoviridae, is one of the main viruses that infect sugarcane worldwide. The virus is transmitted by the aphid Melanaphis sacchari in a persistent, circulative manner. To better understand the interactions between ScYLV, sugarcane genotypes and M. sacchari, we explored the effect of sugarcane cultivars on the feeding behavior and biological performance of the vector. The number of nymphs, adults, winged, total number of aphids and dead aphids was assayed, and an electrical penetration graph (EPG) was used to monitor the stylet activities. Multivariate analysis showed changes in the vector’s behavior and biology on cultivars, identifying specific groups of resistance. In the cultivar 7569, only 5.5% of the insects were able to stay longer on sustained phloem ingestion, while in the other seven cultivars these values varied from 20% to 60%. M. sacchari showed low phloem activities in cultivars 7569 and Bio266. Overall, cultivar 7569 showed the worst biological performance of aphids, with the insects presenting mechanical difficulties for feeding and a shorter duration of the phloem period, and thus being considered the most resistant. We conclude that ScYLV virus infection in different sugarcane cultivars induced specific changes in the host plant, modifying the behavior of its main vector, which may favor or impair virus transmission.

Keywords: aphid performance; electrical penetration graph; probing behavior; plant virus resistance; Saccharum spp.

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Bertasello, L.E.T.; Carmo-Sousa, M.; Prado Maluta, N.K.; Rossini Pinto, L.; Spotti Lopes, J.R.; Gonçalves, M.C. Effect of Sugarcane Cultivars Infected with Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Virus (ScYLV) on Feeding Behavior and Biological Performance of Melanaphis sacchari (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Plants 2021, 10, 2122. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10102122

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Bertasello LET, Carmo-Sousa M, Prado Maluta NK, Rossini Pinto L, Spotti Lopes JR, Gonçalves MC. Effect of Sugarcane Cultivars Infected with Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Virus (ScYLV) on Feeding Behavior and Biological Performance of Melanaphis sacchari (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Plants. 2021; 10(10):2122. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10102122

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Bertasello, Luiz Eduardo Tilhaqui, Michele Carmo-Sousa, Nathalie K. Prado Maluta, Luciana Rossini Pinto, João R. Spotti Lopes, and Marcos Cesar Gonçalves. 2021. "Effect of Sugarcane Cultivars Infected with Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Virus (ScYLV) on Feeding Behavior and Biological Performance of Melanaphis sacchari (Hemiptera: Aphididae)" Plants 10, no. 10: 2122. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10102122

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Bertasello, L. E. T., Carmo-Sousa, M., Prado Maluta, N. K., Rossini Pinto, L., Spotti Lopes, J. R., & Gonçalves, M. C. (2021). Effect of Sugarcane Cultivars Infected with Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Virus (ScYLV) on Feeding Behavior and Biological Performance of Melanaphis sacchari (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Plants, 10(10), 2122. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10102122

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