Genes for the potential control of Diaphorina citri through gene silencing

• Grant number: 18/24234-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: January 01, 2019
• End date: August 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Plant Health
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Luis Cônsoli
• Grantee: Flavia de Moura Manoel Bento
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 15/07011-3 - Biotechnological approaches to the control of citrus huanglongbing using transgenic plants, AP.TEM

Abstract

The difficulties in managing the citrus greening require the development of alternative technologies for controlling this disease. In this project we aim to identify and characterize essential metabolic pathways in the process of host- pathogen interaction, which favor the processes of invasion, infection and multiplication of Liberibacter asiaticus in its vector Diaphorina citri. The identification of such pathways will allow the targetting of new genes using the RNA interfering technology and the enhancement of technques for dsRNA delivery.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BENTO, FLAVIA MOURA MANOEL; DAROLT, JOSIANE CECILIA; MERLIN, BRUNA LAIS; PENA, LEANDRO; WULFF, NELSON ARNO; CONSOLI, FERNANDO LUIS. The molecular interplay of the establishment of an infection - gene expression of Diaphorina citri gut and Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus. BMC Genomics, v. 22, n. 1, SEP 21 2021. (15/07011-3, 18/24768-9, 18/24234-4)

DAROLT, JOSIANE CECILIA; BENTO, FLAVIA DE MOURA MANOEL; MERLIN, BRUNA LAIS; PENA, LEANDRO; CONSOLI, FERNANDO LUIS; WULFF, NELSON ARNO. The Genome of ``Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus `` Is Highly Transcribed When Infecting the Gut of Diaphorina citri. FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, v. 12, JUL 12 2021. (18/24234-4, 15/07011-3)