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The brown planthopper (BPH), the most serious rice insect pest in Asia, is monophagous and feeds only on the phloem sap of the rice plant. Microbial endosymbionts of BPH, including yeast‐like endosymbionts and bacterial endosymbionts, play important roles in insect‐plant competition, thereby facilitating the BPH's adaptation to its rice host. To better understand the interactions of microbe‐insect‐plant, a detailed description of the genomic features of the bacterial endosymbiont, Arsenophonus nilaparvatae, was provided in this issue (see pages 478‐486). Photo provided by Chuan‐Xi Zhang.

Source: Insect Science - May 26, 2016 Category: Biology Tags: CONTENTS Source Type: research