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Assessing Potato Psyllid Haplotypes in Potato Crops in the Pacific Northwestern United States
The potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Ć ulc), is
a vector of the bacterium âCandidatus Liberibacter
solanacearumâ (Lso) that has been linked to the economically
devastating zebra chip disease of potato. To date, four haplotypes
of the potato psyllid have been identified and include
Central, Western, Northwestern, and Southwestern haplotypes.
Zebra chip was reported in potato crops in the Pacific
Northwestern United States for the first time in 2011, and the
Lso-infected psyllids collected from zebra chip-affected fields
were identified as the Western haplotype. Additional studies
have reported a mix of the Western and Northwestern psyllid
haplotypes in the Pacific Northwest. The present study further
examined psyllid population dynamics over the duration of
the 2012 potato season in the Pacific Northwest by haplotype
analysis of 864 potato psyllids collected from potato fields in
Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. In the Yakima Valley of
Washington and the lower Columbia Basin of Washington
and Oregon, the Northwestern haplotype was predominant
(78%), and was detected earlier in the season than the
Western haplotype. Interestingly, in south-central Idaho, all
four psyllid haplotypes were identified, but the predominant
haplotype was the Western haplotype (77%). Here,
Northwestern psyllids were detected early in the season from
June to mid-August, whereas Central psyllidswere detected in
late July and thereafter. These results suggest that haplotype
composition of psyllid populations in potato fields throughout
the 2012 growing season in south-central Idaho differed greatly
from those in Washington and Oregon. Additionally, all
psyllids were analyzed for the presence of Lso, and no Lso-positive
psyllids were found in Washington and Oregon,
whereas Lso-positive psyllids were found in south-central
Idaho. These Lso-positive psyllids consisted of the Western,
Northwestern, and Central haplotypes