Mustafa, Tariq


Publications
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Acquisition and Transmission of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ Differs Among Wolbachia-Infected and -Uninfected Haplotypes of Bactericera cockerelli

Citation
Cooper et al. (2023). Plant Disease 107 (8)
Names
“Liberibacter solanacearum”
Abstract
‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ (Lso) causes disease symptoms and economic losses in potato, tomato, and other solanaceous crops in North America. Lso is transmitted to plants by the potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli, which occurs as distinct haplotypes named western, central, and northwestern that differ in the presence or absence of the bacterial endosymbiont, Wolbachia. Previous work showed that all three vector haplotypes can transmit Lso, but it was not clear whether acquisitio

Growth and Yield Performance of Solanum tuberosum Grown from Seed Potatoes Infected with ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ Haplotypes A and B

Citation
Swisher Grimm et al. (2020). Plant Disease 104 (3)
Names
“Liberibacter solanacearum”
Abstract
Zebra chip (ZC) disease of potato (Solanum tuberosum) is associated with infection by ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ (Lso). Two haplotypes of Lso—A and B—occur in the United States. Lso haplotype B is more virulent than haplotype A, causing greater disease incidence in tubers, more severe symptoms, and greater loss in tuber yield. This study assessed whether tubers from infected plants generate new infected plants the following year. The effects of both Lso haplotypes A and B on tuber r