Cristina Rosa

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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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, 2014 ESA Annual Meeting, Entomological Society of America

Antagonism in Orthotospoviruses Is Reflected in Plant Small RNA Profile

Md Tariqul Islam, Kaixi Zhao, Nathan Johnson, Michael Axtell, Cristina Rosa, 2025, Viruses

Presence of Soybean Vein Necrosis Orthotospovirus (Tospoviridae: Orthotospovirus) in Pakistan, Pakistani Scientists’ and Farmers’ Perception of Disease Dynamics and Management, and Policy Recommendations to Improve Soybean Production

Asifa Hameed, Cristina Rosa, Paige Castillanos, Edwin George Rajotte, 2025, Viruses

Infected grapevines are poor hosts but can serve as source of pathogen transmission for SLF

Md Islam, Crosley Kudla-Williams, Andrew Harner, M Centinari, Cristina Rosa, 2024, bioRxiv on p. 2024-08

Effective plant virus enrichment using carbon nanotubes and microfluidics

Nestor Perea Lopez, Nestor Perea-López, Francisco Iturralde, Juan Iturralde Martinez, Chad Vosburg, E Rajotte, Cristina Rosa, Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, 2024, Journal of Virological Methods on p. 114905

Plant Virus Impacts on Yield and Plant–Pollinator Interactions Are Phylogenetically Modulated Independently of Domestication in Cucurbita spp.

S Hinshaw C, C Hinshaw, Margarita López-Uribe, Cristina Rosa, 2024, Phytopathology on p. 2182-2191

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

Maize near-isogenic lines with enhanced flavonoids alleviated dextran sodium sulfate-induced murine colitis via modulation of the gut microbiota

B Wu, A Cox, H Chang, M Kennett, Cristina Rosa, Surinder Chopra, S Li, L Reddivari, 2023, Food and Function on p. 9606-9616

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

Most-Cited Papers

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

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 on p. 8879

The past, present, and future of barley yellow dwarf management

Joseph Walls, Edwin Rajotte, Cristina Rosa, 2019, Agriculture (Switzerland)

Herbivore Oral Secreted Bacteria Trigger Distinct Defense Responses in Preferred and Non-Preferred Host Plants

Jie Wang, Seung Ho Chung, Michelle Peiffer, Cristina Rosa, Kelli Hoover, Rensen Zeng, Gary W. Felton, 2016, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 463-474