Insecticide resistance and its management in Bemisia tabaci species

AR Horowitz, M Ghanim, E Roditakis, R Nauen… - Journal of Pest …, 2020 - Springer
The sweet potato (cotton) whitefly Bemisia tabaci is a major agricultural pest in various fields
and vegetable crops worldwide. It causes extensive damage by direct feeding on plants …

RNAi technology: a new platform for crop pest control

B Mamta, MV Rajam - Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2017 - Springer
The insect pests are big threat in meeting the food demands for future generation. The
present pest control strategies, including the existing transgenic approaches show certain …

Foliar application of clay-delivered RNA interference for whitefly control

RG Jain, SJ Fletcher, N Manzie, KE Robinson, P Li… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) is a phloem-feeding global agricultural pest belonging to the order
Hemiptera. Foliar application of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) represents an attractive …

Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) Management (WFM) Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture: A Review

M Abubakar, B Koul, K Chandrashekar, A Raut… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …

Insect ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters: roles in xenobiotic detoxification and Bt insecticidal activity

C Wu, S Chakrabarty, M Jin, K Liu, Y Xiao - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters, a large class of transmembrane proteins, are
widely found in organisms and play an important role in the transport of xenobiotics. Insect …

Bemisia tabaci on Vegetables in the Southern United States: Incidence, Impact, and Management

Y Li, GN Mbata, S Punnuri, AM Simmons… - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, was initially discovered in the
United States in 1894 but was not considered an economic insect pest on various …

Insect resistance management in Bacillus thuringiensis cotton by MGPS (multiple genes pyramiding and silencing)

MM Zafar, A Razzaq, MA Farooq, A Rehman… - Journal of Cotton …, 2020 - Springer
The introduction of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton has reduced the burden of pests without
harming the environment and human health. However, the efficacy of Bt cotton has …

Next generation dsRNA-based insect control: Success so far and challenges

RB Nitnavare, J Bhattacharya, S Singh… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
RNA interference (RNAi) is a method of gene silencing where dsRNA is digested into small
interfering RNA (siRNA) in the presence of enzymes. These siRNAs then target homologous …

CRISPR-Cas9-Based Genome Editing in the Silverleaf Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci)

CC Heu, FM McCullough, J Luan, JL Rasgon - The CRISPR journal, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Bemisia tabaci cryptic species Middle East-Asia Minor I (MEAM1) is a serious agricultural
polyphagous insect pest and vector of numerous plant viruses, causing major worldwide …

Horizontally transferred genes as RNA interference targets for aphid and whitefly control

H Feng, W Chen, S Hussain, S Shakir… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
RNA interference (RNAi)‐based technologies are starting to be commercialized as a new
approach for agricultural pest control. Horizontally transferred genes (HTGs), which have …