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 …

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 …

Bemisia tabaci was described over 100 years ago and has since become one of the most
important pests worldwide in subtropical and tropical agriculture as well as in greenhouse …

Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) currently is believed to be a species complex, with many
biotypes and two described extant cryptic species, B. tabaci and Bemisia argentifolii Bellows …

The first neonicotinoid insecticide introduced to the market was imidacloprid in 1991
followed by several others belonging to the same chemical class and with the same mode of …

Historically, Bemisia tabaci has been difficult to control with conventional insecticides in
agronomic and horticultural production systems. In the past 10 years, new insecticide …

Resistance monitoring for Bemisia tabaci field populations to the juvenile hormone mimic,
pyriproxyfen, was conducted from 1996 to 2003 in commercial cotton fields in two areas of …

The two most damaging biotypes of Bemisia tabaci, B and Q, have both evolved strong
resistance to the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid. The major mechanism in all …

The tomato gene Mi-1.2 confers resistance against root-knot nematodes and some isolates
of potato aphid. Resistance to the whitefly Bemisia tabaci previously has been observed in …

The whitefly fauna of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin comprises 56 species that are
considered to be native or naturalized, accommodated within 25 genera. Presented here are …