Bactericera cockerelli

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Wayne Hunter US Horticultural Research Laboratory
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i5K Comments for Bactericera cockerelli
Potato psyllids vector Liberibacter sp. that causes Zebra Chip, ZC, of potato; diseases of tomato, peppers and other solanaceas crops. Thus threatening one of the 12 main food crops feeding the world. ZC occurs in most potato productions areas in USA (NE, CO, KS, NM and CA) as well as New Zealand, Mexico, and Guatemala. This disease economically causes millions of dollars in losses to both potato producers and processors, as well as losses to fresh market and tablestock potato industries. An inbred Psyllid colony is currently maintained in the Bextine Laboratory at UTT, and available for suitable sequencing material.

Major pest of solanaceous plants, native from Northern Mexico and Texas but invasive in New Zealand and Central America. Vector of bacterial pathogen causing Zebra Chip, devastating potato and other solanaceous crops. This species is emerging as a model to study bacterial plant pathogens-insect vectors, an understudied field,

Under "Additional Factors", 'model species' should be included. B. cockerelli and its relative, the Asian Citrus Psyllid are two of a huge line of species that threaten, or have potential to threaten, crop and ornamental agriculture worldwide. B. cockerelli is easily reared and manipulated, its anatomy and behavior have been worked up. For these reasons, it stands to be the model species for this group of insect pests. The transcriptomes of salivary glands and alimentary canal, two organs of importance to disease transmission, are under compilation from the pooling of huge numbers of extirpations, and an elucidated genome would give them enormous leverage into determining histological and cytological processes that might be targeted for control.		 Blake Bextine
Joe Cicero
Cecilia Tamborindeguy

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Bactericera cockerelli
Bactericera cockerelli
Potato psyllid


Taxonomic classification
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Triozidae
Genus: Bactericera
NCBI taxid: 485px-US-NLM-NCBI-Logo.png 290155
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WorkingGroup: Plant pests and beneficials
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