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 …

The first neonicotinoid insecticide, imidacloprid, was launched in 1991. Today this class of
insecticides comprises at least seven major compounds with a market share of more than …

Plants protect themselves with a vast array of toxic secondary metabolites, yet most plants
serve as food for insects. The evolutionary processes that allow herbivorous insects to resist …

BACKGROUND The development and commercialisation of new chemical classes of
insecticides for efficient crop protection measures against destructive invertebrate pests is of …

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 …

Identifying species boundaries within morphologically indistinguishable cryptic species
complexes is often contentious. For the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius)(Hemiptera …

Silicon (Si) is the second most abundant element in the lithosphere. Soils commonly contain
as much as 30% Si, the majority of which is found in minerals and rocks. In plants, the …

The whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Gennadius) is a notorious devastating sap-sucking insect pest
that causes substantial crop damage and yield losses due to direct feeding by both nymphs …

Maternally inherited bacterial symbionts of arthropods are common, yet symbiont invasions
of host populations have rarely been observed. Here, we show that Rickettsia sp. nr. bellii …

The impacts of invasive species on ecosystem services have attracted worldwide attention.
Despite the overwhelming evidence of these impacts and a growing appreciation for …