Management of Insect Pests to Agriculture
Lessons Learned from Deciphering their Genome, Transcriptome and Proteome
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Performance and preference of Bemisia tabaci on tomato severe rugose virus infected tomato plants
Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Middle East-Asia Minor 1 (MEAM1) and Mediterranean (MED) were reported as the sole vectors for tomato severe rugose virus (ToSRV), the prevalent begomovirus in...
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Open AccessWhitefly endosymbionts: IPM opportunity or tilting at windmills?
Whiteflies are sap-sucking insects responsible for high economic losses. They colonize hundreds of plant species and cause direct feeding damage and indirect damage through transmission of devastating viruses....
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Insecticide resistance and its management in Bemisia tabaci species
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, reducing quality, secreting ...
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Open AccessDistribution and phylogenetics of whiteflies and their endosymbiont relationships after the Mediterranean species invasion in Brazil
The Bemisia tabaci is a polyphagous insect and a successful vector of plant viruses. B. tabaci is a species complex and in Brazil native species from the New World (NW) group, as well as the invasive species, Mid...
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Open AccessFitness costs associated with infections of secondary endosymbionts in the cassava whitefly species Bemisia tabaci
We investigated the dual effects of bacterial infections and diseased cassava plants on the fitness and biology of the Bemisia tabaci infesting cassava in Africa. Isofemale B. tabaci colonies of sub-Saharan Afric...
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Open Access‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ Accumulates inside Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Vacuoles in the Gut Cells of Diaphorina citri
Citrus greening disease known also as Huanglongbing (HLB) caused by the phloem-limited bacterium ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ (CLas) has resulted in tremendous losses and the death of millions of trees wor...
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New invasion of Bemisia tabaci Mediterranean species in Brazil associated to ornamental plants
In Brazil, the first major invasion event of Bemisia tabaci was that of Middle East–Asia Minor 1 (MEAM1) species, formerly termed as B biotype, which commenced in the 1990s mainly by ornamental plants in São Paul...
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Open AccessThe draft genome of whitefly Bemisia tabaci MEAM1, a global crop pest, provides novel insights into virus transmission, host adaptation, and insecticide resistance
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 vectors, B. tabaci causes substantial crop losses and p...
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Open AccessMorphological abnormalities and cell death in the Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri) midgut associated with Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus
Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas) is a phloem-limited, gram-negative, fastidious bacterium that is associated with the development of citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing (HLB). CLas is tra...
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Interactions Between the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci and Begomoviruses: Biological and Genomic Perspectives
Begomoviruses are an emerging group of plant viruses, exclusively transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci in a persistent-circulative manner. Despite the economic importance of both, very little is known about...
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Advances in Whiteflies and Thrips Management
The sweetpotato whitefly Bemisia tabaci and thrips species such as the tobacco thrips, Thrips tabaci and the western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis are major agricultural pests in various vegetable, orn...
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Spatial distribution and niche partitioning in the Ooencyrtus spp. complex parasitizing the eggs of Stenozygum coloratum
The way in which species coexist is an important ecological question. Often, several parasitoid species may share a common host species. Five species of Ooencyrtus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) co-inhabit the...
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Advances in the Genomics of the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci: An Insect Pest and a Virus Vector
The sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, is a devastating cosmopolitan insect pest that inflicts serious damage by direct feeding on plants, secreting honeydew, and vectoring more than 100 plant viruses that bel...
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Paternal inheritance in mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae)
Mealybugs have a haplodiploid reproduction system, with paternal genome elimination (PGE); the males are diploid soon after fertilization, but during embryogenesis, the male paternal set of chromosomes becomes...
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Adaptation to Nicotine Feeding in Myzus persicae
Lineages of the generalist hemipteran herbivore Myzus persicae (green peach aphid) that have expanded their host range to include tobacco often have elevated nicotine tolerance. The tobacco-adapted M. persicae li...
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RNA Interference and Its Potential for Develo** New Control Methods Against Insect Pests
RNA interference (RNAi) is a novel mechanism for the regulation of gene expression that was first discovered in the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Since its discovery, there has been an explosion in the n...
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Open AccessA novel bacterial symbiont in the nematode Spirocerca lupi
The parasitic nematode Spirocerca lupi (Spirurida: Thelaziidae), the canine esophageal worm, is the causative agent of spirocercosis, a disease causing morbidity and mortality in dogs. Spirocerca lupi has a compl...
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Bemisia tabaci – Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Interaction Causing Worldwide Epidemics
Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is a begomovirus that threatens tomato production worldwide. TYLCV is transmitted in a circulative manner by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. Once ingested, TYLCV wa...
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Open AccessCo-infection and localization of secondary symbionts in two whitefly species
Whiteflies are cosmopolitan phloem-feeding pests that cause serious damage to many crops worldwide due to direct feeding and vectoring of many plant viruses. The sweetpotato whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) an...
