Title

Potential of Omics to control diseases and pests in the Coconut tree

Author

MIGUEL ALONSO TZEC SIMA

Jean Wildort Félix

María Inés Granados Alegría

Mónica Aparicio Ortiz

Dilery Juarez Monroy

Damian Mayo

Sarai Vivas-Lopez

Rufino Gómez-Tah

Blondy Beatriz Canto Canché

Maxim Berezovski

Ignacio Rodrigo Islas Flores

Access level

Open Access

Dataset reference

datasetDOI/https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12123164

Summary or description

The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) is a common crop in pantropical areas facing various challenges, one of them being the control of diseases and pests. Diseases such as bud rot caused by Phytophthora palmivora, lethal yellowing caused by phytoplasmas of the types 16SrIV-A, 16SrIV-D or 16SrIV-E, among others, and pests like the coconut palm weevil, Rhynchophorus vulneratus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), and the horned beetle, Oryctes rhinocerus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), are controlled by applying pesticides, pheromones and cultural control. These practices do not guarantee eradication since some causal agents have become resistant or are imbedded in infected tissues making them difficult to eradicate. This review condenses the current genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics studies which are being conducted with the aim of understanding the pathosystems associated with the coconut palm, highlighting the findings generated by omics studies that may become future targets for the control of diseases and pests in the coconut crop. © 2022 by the authors.

Publish date

2022

Publication type

Article

Publication version

Published Version

Format

application/pdf

Source

Agronomy, 12(12), 3164, 2022.

Language

English

Citation suggestion

Tzec-Simá, M.; Félix, J.W.; Granados-Alegría, M.; Aparicio-Ortiz, M.; Juárez-Monroy, D.; Mayo-Ruiz, D.; Vivas-López, S.; Gómez-Tah, R.; Canto-Canché, B.; Berezovski, M.V.; et al. Potential of Omics to control diseases and pests in the Coconut tree. Agronomy 2022, 12, 3164. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12123164

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Repositorio Institucional CICY

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