The first neonicotinoid insecticide, imidacloprid, was launched in 1991. Today this class of
insecticides comprises at least seven major compounds with a market share of more than …

Virus diseases that have emerged in the past two decades limit the production of important
vegetable crops in tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions worldwide, and many of the …

Abstract Background The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is among the
100 worst invasive species in the world. As one of the most important crop pests and virus …

Bemisia tabaci is one of the most threatening pests in agriculture, causing significant losses
to many important crops on a global scale. The dramatic increase and availability of …

Bemisia tabaci has long been considered a complex species. It rose to global prominence in
the 1980s owing to the global invasion by the commonly named B biotype. Since then, the …

Most plant viruses require a biological vector to spread from plant to plant in nature. Among
biological vectors for plant viruses, hemipteroid insects are the most common, including …

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 …

Abstract Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz.) is the most important vegetatively propagated
food staple in Africa and a prominent industrial crop in Latin America and Asia. Its vegetative …

Maternally inherited bacterial symbionts of arthropods are common, yet symbiont invasions
of host populations have rarely been observed. Here, we show that Rickettsia sp. nr. bellii …

The present study is a summary of the current level of the insecticide resistance to selected
organophosphates, pyrethroids, and neonicotinoids in seven Indian field populations of …