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 …

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 …

Although exchange of genetic information by recombination plays a role in the evolution of
viruses, the extent to which it generates diversity is not clear. We analyzed genomes of …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Acquisition and transmission by an insect vector is central to the infection cycle of the
majority of plant pathogenic viruses. Plant viruses can interact with their insect host in a …

Tomato yellow leaf curl (TYLC) is one of the most devastating viral diseases of cultivated
tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, and losses …

Abstract Mitochondrial 16S (~ 550 bp) and cytochrome oxidase I (COI)(~ 700 bp) sequences
were utilized as markers to reconstruct a phylogeography for representative populations or …