Improving climate suitability for Bemisia tabaci in East Africa is correlated with increased prevalence of whiteflies and cassava diseases

DJ Kriticos, RE Darnell, T Yonow, N Ota, RW Sutherst… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
… of climate suitability to test whether the climate suitability for B. tabaci in East and Central Africa
has been increasing … might reasonably expect that the increasing climatic suitability for B. …

Landscape-scale biogeographic distribution analysis of the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius, 1889) in Kenya

BT Mudereri, E Kimathi, T Chitata… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
… , Africa climate projections indicate temperature increases of … swamps of East African
mangroves. The central and western … Our study indicates that climate change will likely increase

Current and future scenarios of suitability and expansion of cassava brown streak disease, Bemisia tabaci species complex, and cassava planting in Africa

G Sikazwe, RE epse Yocgo, P Landi, DM Richardson… - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
… The increased cassava suitability habitats reported in this … be ignored in favour of increasing
the suitable habitats for Cassava, … In East Africa, two distinct species of Bemisia tabaci have …

Cassava whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius)(Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in East African farming landscapes: a review of the factors determining abundance

S Macfadyen, C Paull, LM Boykin… - Bulletin of …, 2018 - cambridge.org
… to high population densities of sub-Saharan African (SSA) B. … other herbivores within the
East African cassava environment. … species entered East Africa, it may have been better able to …

Is High Whitefly Abundance on Cassava in Sub-Saharan Africa Driven by Biological Traits of a Specific, Cryptic Bemisia tabaci Species?

H Mugerwa, P Sseruwagi, J Colvin, S Seal - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
… In East Africa, the prevalent Bemisia tabaci whiteflies on the food … the increasing climate
suitability in parts of East and Central Africa across the 39 years of the study shows a correlation

Influence of Cassava Morphological Traits and Environmental Conditions on Field Populations of Bemisia tabaci

K Katono, S Macfadyen, CA Omongo, TL Odong… - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
… the cassava-growing regions of East and Central Africa. The … these genotypes have
morphological traits that enhance B. … and climate factors, a combination of high rainfall amounts, …

The Dynamics and Environmental Influence on Interactions Between Cassava Brown Streak Disease and the Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci

SC Jeremiah, IL Ndyetabula, GS Mkamilo… - …, 2015 - Am Phytopath Society
East Africa. Improvements in knowledge in these fields of research will help in forecasting
future patterns of CBSD spread, determining the likely impacts of climateimproved and more

A novel approach for exploring climatic factors limiting current pest distributions: A case study of Bemisia tabaci in north-west Europe and assessment of potential …

CD Bradshaw, D Hemming, R Baker, M Everatt… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Bemisia tabaci can feed on more than 800 plants species [9], … change and an increase in
its range throughout southern … -related indices (refer to Table 1 and Table 2 for more details). …

Mapping global risk levels of Bemisia tabaci in areas of suitability for open field tomato cultivation under current and future climates

RS Ramos, L Kumar, F Shabani, MC Picanço - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
… variable from a group with high correlation was included (Pearson correlation coefficient, r
≥|… but will increase to more moderately suitable for B. tabaci in regions with optimal climatic

Effect of temperature and cassava genotype on the development, fecundity and reproduction of Bemisia tabaci SSA1

K Katono, S Macfadyen, CA Omongo, J Colvin… - African Crop Science …, 2022 - ajol.info
… that temperature increase in the wake of climate change will … high temperatures are known
to cause desiccation in insects, the high RH range used in this study (a norm for East Africa) …