Cristina Rosa

Associate Professor of Plant Pathology & Environmental Microbiology

Cristina Rosa

Research Summary

Plant Virology, interaction of plant viruses with their insects as vectors and with their plant hosts. Virus evolution, exploration of plant viromes, viral co-infections, effect of climate change on viral resistant breaking strains. Use of nanotechnologies for virus detection and virus disease management.

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Bacteria Digestive System Insects Microorganisms Herbivory Nitrogen Larva Genes Insecta Tomatoes Herbivores Thysanoptera Cerambycidae Thripidae Neohydatothrips Variabilis Lycopersicon Esculentum Zea Mays Insect Larvae Diet Larvae Urea Jasmonic Acid Recycling Helicoverpa Zea Orthotospovirus

Most Recent Publications

A cyber-age approach to manage <i>Barley yellow dwarf virus</i> in winter wheat on a global scale

Joseph Walls III, Cristina Rosa,

Reverse transcriptase recombinase polymerase amplification for detection of tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus from crude plant extracts

Juan Francisco Iturralde Martinez, Cristina Rosa, 2023, Scientific Reports

Overview of methods and considerations for the photodynamic inactivation of microorganisms for agricultural applications

Md Tariqul Islam, Madeline Sain, Colin Stark, Michael Fefer, Jun Liu, Todd Hoare, Wenzi Ckurshumova, Cristina Rosa, 2023, Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences on p. 2675-2686

Ecological Interactions among Thrips, Soybean Plants, and Soybean Vein Necrosis Virus in Pennsylvania, USA

Asifa Hameed, Cristina Rosa, Cheryle A. O’Donnell, Edwin G. Rajotte, 2023, Viruses

Photosensitizer to the Rescue: In Planta and Field Application of Photodynamic Inactivation Against Plant-Pathogenic Bacteria

Md Tariqul Islam, Kenneth Ng, Michael Fefer, Jun Liu, Wakar Uddin, Wenzi Ckurshumova, Cristina Rosa, 2023, Plant Disease on p. 870-878

Morphology of the Female Reproductive System of the Soybean Thrips, Neohydatothrips variabilis (Beach, 1896) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

Asifa Hameed, Jonah M. Ulmer, Istvan Miko, Cristina Rosa, Edwin G. Rajotte, 2022, Insects

The Effect of Species Soybean Vein Necrosis Orthotospovirus (SVNV) on Life Table Parameters of Its Vector, Soybean Thrips (Neohydatothrips variabilis Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

Asifa Hameed, Cristina Rosa, Edwin G. Rajotte, 2022, Insects

Deciphering genome-wide transcriptomic changes in grapevines heavily infested by spotted lanternflies

Md Islam, Crosley Kudla-Williams, Suraj Kar, Jason Londo, Michela Centinari, Cristina Rosa, 2022, Frontiers in Insect Science

An Integrated Pest Management Program Outperforms Conventional Practices for Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) in Cambodia

Mitzy F. Porras, Antonino Malacrinò, Chanratha An, Kim Hian Seng, Ong Socheath, George Norton, Sally Miller, Cristina Rosa, Edwin G. Rajotte, Megan E. O’Rourke, 2022, Plant Health Progress on p. 206-211

Phytobiome Metabarcoding: A Tool to Help Identify Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Causal Agents of Undiagnosed Tree Diseases

Carrie J. Fearer, Antonino Malacrinò, Cristina Rosa, Pierluigi Bonello, 2022, on p. 347-366

Most-Cited Papers

Herbivore exploits orally secreted bacteria to suppress plant defenses

Seung Ho Chung, Cristina Rosa, Erin D. Scully, Michelle Peiffer, John F. Tooker, Kelli Hoover, Dawn S. Luthe, Gary W. Felton, 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 15728-15733

RNA interference mechanisms and applications in plant pathology

Cristina Rosa, Yen Wen Kuo, Hada Wuriyanghan, Bryce W. Falk, 2018, Annual Review of Phytopathology on p. 581-610

Tritrophic Interactions: Microbe-Mediated Plant Effects on Insect Herbivores

Ikkei Shikano, Cristina Rosa, Ching Wen Tan, Gary W. Felton, 2017, Annual Review of Phytopathology on p. 313-331

Fall armyworm-associated gut bacteria modulate plant defense responses

Flor E. Acevedo, Michelle Peiffer, Ching Wen Tan, Bruce A. Stanley, Anne Stanley, Jie Wang, Asher G. Jones, Kelli Hoover, Cristina Rosa, Dawn Luthe, Gary Felton, 2017, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions on p. 127-137

Host plant species determines symbiotic bacterial community mediating suppression of plant defenses

Seung Ho Chung, Erin D. Scully, Michelle Peiffer, Scott M. Geib, Cristina Rosa, Kelli Hoover, Gary W. Felton, 2017, Scientific Reports

Helicoverpa zea gut-associated bacteria indirectly induce defenses in tomato by triggering a salivary elicitor(s)

Jie Wang, Michelle Peiffer, Kelli Hoover, Cristina Rosa, Rensen Zeng, Gary W. Felton, 2017, New Phytologist on p. 1294-1306

Symbiotic polydnavirus of a parasite manipulates caterpillar and plant immunity

Ching Wen Tan, Michelle Peiffer, Kelli Hoover, Cristina Rosa, Flor E. Acevedo, Gary W. Felton, 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 5199-5204

Essential amino acid supplementation by gut microbes of a wood-feeding cerambycid

Paul A. Ayayee, Thomas Larsen, Cristina Rosa, Gary W. Felton, James G. Ferry, Kelli Hoover, 2016, Environmental Entomology on p. 66-73

Gut microbes contribute to nitrogen provisioning in a wood-feeding cerambycid

Paul Ayayee, Cristina Rosa, James Gregory Ferry, Gary Felton, Michael Craig Saunders, Kelli Hoover, 2014, Environmental Entomology on p. 903-912

Investigating the viral ecology of global bee communities with high-throughput metagenomics

David A. Galbraith, Zachary L. Fuller, Allyson M. Ray, Axel Brockmann, Maryann Frazier, Mary W. Gikungu, J. Francisco Iturralde Martinez, Karen M. Kapheim, Jeffrey T. Kerby, Sarah D. Kocher, Oleksiy Losyev, Elliud Muli, Harland M. Patch, Cristina Rosa, Joyce M. Sakamoto, Scott Stanley, Anthony D. Vaudo, Christina M. Grozinger, 2018, Scientific Reports