Phloem-feeding pests cause extensive crop damage throughout the world, yet little is
understood about how plants perceive and defend themselves from these threats. The …

Phloem feeding involves unique biological interactions between the herbivore and its host
plant. The economic importance of aphids, whiteflies, and other phloem‐feeding insects as …

Soybean aphids (Aphis glycines Matsumura) are specialized insects that feed on soybean
(Glycine max) phloem sap. Transcriptome analyses have shown that resistant soybean …

Whiteflies (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) comprise tiny phloem-sucking insects. The sessile
development of their immatures and their phloem-feeding habits (with minimal physical plant …

The basal defenses important in curtailing the development of the phloem-feeding silverleaf
whitefly (Bemisia tabaci type B; SLWF) on Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) were …

Phloem-feeding whiteflies in the species complex Bemisia tabaci cause extensive crop
damage worldwide. One of the reasons for their “success” is their ability to suppress the …

The relationship between phloem-feeding insects (PFIs) and plants offers an intriguing
example of a highly specialized biotic interaction. These insects have evolved to survive on …

Upon herbivore attack, plants activate an indirect defense, that is, the release of a complex
mixture of volatiles that attract natural enemies of the herbivore. When plants are …

Aphids have long been considered 'stealthy'herbivores that subvert a plant's induced
defenses and manipulate its source‐sink signaling, but these hypotheses are largely …

Highlights•Whiteflies are plant phloem feeders and have diverse interactions with host
plants.•Plants defend against whitefly attacks by alternations of morphology and …