Bemisia: Bionomics and Management of a Global Pest

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stansly, Philip A. (Editor), Naranjo, Steven E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant pathology.; Animal genetics.; Invertebrates.; Life Sciences.; Plant Pathology.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.

Bemisia tabaci (Gennedius) has distinguished itself from the more than 1000 whitefly species in the world by it adaptability, persistence and potential to damage a wide range of agricultural and horticultural crops in all six of the world’s inhabited continents. B. tabaci inflicts plant damage throu...

Table of Contents:

• Taxonomy, Molecular Systematics, and Gene Flow in the Bemisia tabaci complex and Bemisia relatives
• Systematics of Bemisia and Bemisia Relatives: Can Molecular Techniques Solve the Bemisia tabaci Complex Conundrum – A Taxonomist’s Viewpoint
• Phylogenetic Biology of the Bemisia tabaci Sibling Species Group
• Tools and Recent Progress in Studying Gene Flow and Population Genetics of the Bemisia tabaci Sibling Species Group
• Biology and Ecology of Bemisia tabaci
• Life History, Functional Anatomy, Feeding and Mating Behavior
• Mutualistic and Dependent Relationships with Other Organisms
• Population Dynamics, Demography, Dispersal and Spread of Bemisia tabaci
• Biology and Epidemiology of Bemisia tabaci-Vectored Viruses
• Epidemiology of a Whitefly-Transmitted Cassava Mosaic Geminivirus Pandemic in Africa
• Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Disease Epidemics
• Distribution and Dissemination of Begomoviruses in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Transmission Efficiency and Epidemiology of Criniviruses
• A Review of Ipomoviruses and Watermelon Vine Decline in Florida
• Transovarial Transmission of Begomoviruses in Bemisia tabaci
• Management of Bemisia tabaci in Diverse Cropping Systems
• Optical Manipulation for Control of Bemisia tabaci and Its Vectored Viruses in the Greenhouse and Open Field
• Host Plant Resistance for the Management of Bemisia tabaci: A Multi-crop Survey with Emphasis on Tomato
• Natural Enemies of Bemisia tabaci: Predators and Parasitoids
• Ecological Determinants of Bemisia tabaci Resistance to Insecticides
• Integrated Systems for Managing Bemisia tabaci in Protected and Open Field Agriculture
• Prospects for Application of Genomics
• The Whitefly Genome – White Paper: A Proposal to Sequence Multiple Genomes of Bemisia tabaci
• Erratum.