Financial support for this article was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32161143008,31925233);the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation(Investment ID OPP1149777);Wilmer J.Cuellar,is supported by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research(ACIAR),and the One CGIAR initiative on Plant Health(PHI).
Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus(SLCMV)is a prominent causative agent of cassava mosaic disease in Asia and relies on the whitefly Bemisia tabaci cryptic complex for its transmission.However,the molecular mechanisms in...
The authors would like to thank Dr.Zhangjun Fei(Boyce Thompson Institute,USA)for computational support and comments on an earlier draft.This research was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFD1400800);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32272534 and 32161143020);the Hainan Major Science and Technology Project(ZDKJ2021007);the Beijing Key Laboratory for Pest Control and Sustainable Cultivation of Vegetables and the Science and Technology Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(CAAS-ASTIP-IVFCAAS);The funders had no role in study design,data collection and analysis,decision to publish,or preparation of the manuscript.Data Availability Statement This Whole Genome Shotgun project(Bemisia tabaci MED,Asial,Asialll,AsialI6,and AsialI7)has been deposited at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under accession VMOE00000000,VMEI00000000,VMEH00000000,VMEG00000000,and VLTD00000000,respectively.Raw sequences including Illumina,PacBio,Hi-C,and RNA-seq reads have been deposited in the NCBI SRA)under accessions SRR11649531-SRR11649533(MED);SRR11692174-SRR11692176(Asial),SRR11613039-SRR11613041(AsiaII1);SRR11609251-SRR11609253(Asiall6);SRR11609258-SRR11609260(Asial7).The genome and predicted gene sequences of all available whitefly genomes are also available via the Whitefly Genome Database(WF-DB,http:/82.157.25.63/whitefly/homepage.php).
Dear Editor,The characteristics and importance of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci as an economic pest seem to continually get more and more attention.Among the whiteflies B.tabaci including,at least 11 genetic groups and ...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFD1401200);Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province of China(tstp20221135);the National Nature Science Foun-dation of China(31872030 and 31572064).
Inherited bacterial symbionts are very common in arthropods, but infection frequency can vary widely among populations. Experiments and interpopulation comparisons suggest that host genetic background might be importa...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31871970,32221004,and 32272534);the Hainan Major Science and Technology Project(ZDKJ2021007);the Project of Sanya Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City(SKJC-2022-PTDX-017);the Research and demonstration of key technologies for ensuring supply of vegetable industry(2020-J-005-ydhz).
Thermal stress usually leads to excessive production of reactive oxygen species(ROS)in all aerobic organisms.Catalases(CAT)are the key antioxidant enzymes,which act as the first line of defense against ROS in the anti...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31872030);the Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province of China,the First Class Grassland Science Discipline Program of Shandong Province,China,and the Qingdao Agricultural University High-level Talent Fund(663-1121025).
Communities of bacteria,especially symbionts,are vital for the growth and development of insects and other arthropods,including Bemisia tabaci Mediterranean(MED),a destructive and invasive insect pest.However,the infe...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31872030,31572064);the Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province(tsqn20161040);the First-class Grassland Science Discipline Program in Shandong Province,China.
Field monitoring revealed that the infection ratio of the bacterial symbiont Cardinium in the whitefly(Bemisia tabaci MED)was relatively low in northern China.However,the role of this symbiont and the symbiont-whitefl...
funded by USDA NIFA grant#2019-67014-29359 to K.M.;the National Institute of Health Training Grant in Environmental Toxicology T32 ES018827 to B.H.L.
Transcriptomic studies are an important tool for understanding the molecular pathways underlying host plant use by agricultural pests,including vectors of damaging plant pathogens.Thus far,bulk RNA-Seq has been the ma...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project no.:31772173).
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We thank Professor Myron Zalucki,The University of Queensland,Australia for editing the final version of the manuscript prior to submission.This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project no.31772173).
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