Evaluation of Interactions Among Aphids, Endosymbionts, and Host Plants: A Foresight for the Future

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

Insects, the most common and most successful animals on earth, establish long-term and stable ecological relationships with bacteria. Aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) are an insect group of agricultural importance that can feed on many herbaceous, shrubs, and woody plants as hosts and are also in close relationship with endosymbiont bacteria. It is seen that aphid is going to further increase their current pest potential in the near future due to their high adaptability and rapid reproduction ability. In order to be effective and successful in the biological control of aphids, many features of aphids are required to be known and clarified. Therefore, determining the interactions among aphid, host plant, and endosymbiont in this relationship might make biological control of aphids more effective. In this review, what is known about the relationship among aphids, the primary endosymbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola, and the host plant is examined, and the possibilities of using symbiont bacteria in the biological control of aphids are discussed.