One-hundred and fourteen virus species are transmitted by whiteflies (family Aleyrodidae).
Bemisia tabaci transmits 111 of these species while Trialeurodes vaporariorum and T …

Bemisia tabaci was described over 100 years ago and has since become one of the most
important pests worldwide in subtropical and tropical agriculture as well as in greenhouse …

Viruses of the genus Begomovirus (family Geminiviridae) are emergent pathogens of crops
throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. By virtue of having a small DNA …

The biotype or host-races concept with respect to Bemisia tabaci is reviewed. The worldwide
dispersal and impact of the'b-biotype', the impact of the b-biotype on agriculture, molecular …

The whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Gennadius) is a notorious devastating sap-sucking insect pest
that causes substantial crop damage and yield losses due to direct feeding by both nymphs …

Geminiviruses have small, single-stranded DNA genomes that replicate through double-
stranded intermediates in the nuclei of infected plant cells. Viral double-stranded DNA also …

The majority of plant-infecting viruses utilize an RNA genome, suggesting that plants have
imposed strict constraints on the evolution of DNA viruses. The geminiviruses represent a …

Eighteen populations of Bemisia tabaci, collected from different geographic locations (North
& Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe), were studied to …

Geminivirus isolates associated with the epidemic of severe cassava mosaic disease in
Uganda were studied and compared with virus isolates from the part of Uganda outside the …

ABSTRACT Wyatt, SD, and Brown, JK 1996. Detection of subgroup III geminivirus isolates in
leaf extracts by degenerate primers and polymerase chain reaction. Phytopathology 86 …