Peter Sseruwagi and Joseph Ndunguru,Mikocheni Agriculture Research Institute,Tanzania,for collecting samples from Uganda.J.N.C.is supported by grants(AGL2013-48913-C2-1-R and AGL2016-75819-C2-2-R)from the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad(MINECO,Spain);co-financed by ERDF.E.F.O.is a recipient of a"Juan de la Cierva-Incorporacion"postdoctoral contract from MINECO.
Identifying cryptic species poses a substantial challenge to both biologists and naturalists due to morphological similarities.Bemisia tabaci is a cryptic species complex containing more than 44 putative species;sever...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project no.:31772173).
Nutritional mutualism between insects and symbiotic bacteria is widespread.The various sap-feeding whitefly species within the Bemisia tabaci complex associate with the same obligate symbiont(Portiera)and multiple sec...
supported by two grants obtained from the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation;Enabling Research Tools for Cassava Virologists and Breeders,OPP1080766;the African Cassava Whitefly Project,OPP1058938.
In sub-Saharan Africa cassava growing areas,two members of the Bemisia tabaci species complex termed sub-Saharan Africa 1(SSA1)and SSA2 have been reported as the prevalent whiteflies associated with the spread of viru...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31772173)。
Endosymbiont transmission via eggs to future host generations has been recognized as the main strategy for its persistence in insect hosts;however,the mechanisms for transmission have yet to be elucidated.Here,we desc...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project 31871967);Liaoning and Shenyang High-Level Talent Support Foundation(Project 2018B0078 and RC180025);the Natural Resources Institute,University of Greenwich from a grant provided by the Bill&Melinda Gates foundation(Grant Agreement OPP1058938).
Whiteflies possess bacterial symbionts Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidium that are housed in specialized cells called bacteriocytes and are faithfully transmitted via the ovary to insect offspring.In one whitefly specie...
Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation(Research grant AGL 2013-47603-C2-2-R).
The continuous rise of CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere is reducing plant nutritional quality for herbivores and indirectly affects their performance.The whitefly(Bemisia tabaci,Gennadius)is a major worldwide pest...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31601884);the Research and Development Fund of Zhejiang A&F University (2017FR041)
Two species in the genus Acanthaleyrodes Takahashi(Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from China, A. callicarpae Takahashi and A. styraci Takahashi are reported in this paper. The diagnosis, distribution, host plant and morpholo...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31390421)
Begomoviruses are important crop viral disease agents, and they are transmitted by whiteflies of the Bemisia tabaci complex.Although the transmission of begomoviruses by whiteflies has been studied for many years, the...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31601884);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2016M592017);the Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest of China(201303019)
Four species in the genus Pentaleyrodes Takahashi(Hemiptera:Aleyrodidae) from China,P.yasumatsui Takahashi,P.hongkongensis Takahashi,P.cinnamomi(Takahashi) and P.linderae Chou & Yan are reported in this paper.P.yasuma...
Melia azedarach L. extracts were studied in comparison with selected synthetic in-secticides against the mulberry whiteflies Pealiusma chili and P. mori under labora-tory conditions. Morus alba (cv. “Early Spring”) ...