Srinivasan Lab members have published two journal articles in two months—what a way to start off 2022!
Gabrielle LaTora, Research Professional and lab manager, headed a pest profile on the tobacco thrips, Frankliniella fusca, and its impacts on peanut production. PhD students Pin-Chu Lai and Yi-Ju Chen, post-doc Saurabh Gautam, and extension entomologist Mark Abney were also co-authors.
Published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management, this review covers everything you would want to know about F. fusca, from its biology and life cycle, morphology, and current management tactics. The article also covers F. fusca’s characteristics as a vector—it transmits tomato spotted wilt virus, which causes spotted wilt disease in peanut plants.
Gabrielle also summed up the article in a blog post for Entomology Today, the Entomological Society of America’s web magazine.
PhD student Michael Catto authored an extensive review on transcriptional changes within plant viruses and insect vectors, published in the journal Cells last month. Co-authored by post-doc Habibu Mugerwa, PhD student Sudeep Pandey, and collaborators in the UGA Department of Plant Pathology, this review covers how genes are differentially expressed in viruses and vectors (including whiteflies, leafhoppers, planthoppers, thrips, aphids, and leaf beetles) when the two parties interact. This paper includes amazing diagrams by Sudeep!
The importance of review articles is often downplayed when compared with original research articles, but it’s important that our team is crafting both. Reviews summarize and synthesize the developments in a particular research area and provide the “big picture” for what research has been done and what’s on the horizon. They’re a great point of entry for those new to a field, and some make topics more accessible to non-scientists.
We’re proud that our lab contributes both original research and reviews to the scientific community, spanning basic to applied research. Congrats to all on your hard work!
