During the last years, a great effort has been dedicated at the development and employment
of diverse approaches for achieving more stress‐tolerant and climate‐flexible crops and …

The tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta (Meyrick)(Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is a devastating
pest of tomato originating from South America. After its initial detection in eastern Spain in …

The sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci Gennadius, is a devastating insect pest on
vegetable crops around the world. This pest causes significant damage by directly feeding …

Plant glandular secreting trichomes are epidermal protuberances that produce structurally
diverse specialized metabolites, including medically important compounds. Trichomes of …

Acylsugars are insecticidal specialized metabolites produced in the glandular trichomes of
plants in the Solanaceae family. In the tomato clade of the Solanum genus, acylsugars …

Breeding of tomato genotypes that limit whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) access and feeding might
reduce the spread of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), a begomovirus (genus …

The recently introduced tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta, has become the most important
pest constraint to tomato production in Africa. Spreading at an average 800 km/year, it is …

We evaluated the effect of tomato genotypes with a high content of acylsugar (AS) in the F 2
generation on the behavior and biology of Tetranychus urticae, the two-spotted spider mite …

We examined the resistance of improved tomato strains rich in 2-tridecanone (2-TD),
zingiberene (ZGB) and acyl sugars (AA) to the tomato moth, Tuta absoluta. We also studied …

Zingiberene (ZGB) and acylsugars (AS) are allelochemicals responsible for high levels of
arthropod resistance found in Solanum habrochaites (= Lycopersicon hirsutum) var …