Impact of Host Plant Species and Whitefly Species on Feeding Behavior of Bemisia tabaci.

ABSTRACT: Whiteflies of the Bemisia tabaci species complex are economically important pests of cassava. In Africa, they cause greatest damage through vectoring viruses responsible for cassava mosaic disease and cassava brown streak disease. Several cryptic species from the B. tabaci complex colonize cassava and neighboring crops, but the feeding interactions between the different crops and B. tabaci species are unknown. The electrical penetration graph (EPG) technique makes it possible to conduct detailed feeding studies of sap-sucking insects by creating an electric circuit through the insect and the plant. The apparatus measures the voltage fluctuations while the wired-up insect feeds and produces graphs that describe feeding behavior. We utilized EPG to explore the feeding be

SUBMITTER: Milenovic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6349738 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature