Cristina Rosa

The paper evaluates bioinformatic tools for identifying defective interfering RNA in plant viral infections and finds low agreement among tools but supports the prevalence of DI RNA under permissive conditions.

This study shows that spotted lanternflies prefer healthy grapevines and feeding on infected ones harms nymph development, but transmission of Pierces disease was observed in some recipient vines.

The paper develops a novel pipeline for viral metagenomics in bees, identifying 127 novel viruses across multiple species and regions.