Whitefly inflicts both direct and indirect losses to cotton crop. Whitefly resistant cotton
germplasm is a high priority and considered among the best possible solutions to mitigate …

Cotton is a commercial and economically important crop that generates billions of dollars in
annual revenue worldwide. However, cotton yield is affected by a sap-sucking insect …

The rapid advances in available transcriptomic and genomic data and our understanding of
the physiology and biochemistry of whitefly–plant interactions have allowed us to gain new …

Phytochemical defense responses of plants are often herbivore-specific and can be affected
by a herbivore's feeding mode. However, comprehensive studies documenting the impact of …

Helopeltis theivora or the tea mosquito bug (TMB) is reportedly one of the most devastating
pests of tea plant (Camellia sinensis) causing threat to the beverage crop. Long non-coding …

Cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., is planted in a wide range of environments in 78 countries
across the world and has great economic importance. A diversity of arthropods damages this …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small non-coding regulatory RNAs, are key molecules in
many biological and metabolic processes of plant growth, development and stress response …

Huanglongbing (HLB) is a devastating disease that has led to an acute crisis for growers of
citrus, one of the world's most important fruit crops. The phloem-feeding Asian citrus psyllid …

Different types of insect feeding can activate distinct plant resistance mechanisms and
trigger the generation of specific volatile compounds. Transcriptomic changes and the …

While global climate change poses a significant environmental threat to agriculture, the
increasing population is another big challenge to food security. To address this, developing …