Feeding experience of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) affects their performance on different host plants.

The sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci biotype B is extremely polyphagous with >600 species of host plants. We hypothesized that previous experience of the whitefly on a given host plant affects their host selection and performance on the plants without previous experience. We investigated the...

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Main Authors: M Mostafizur Rahman Shah, Tong-Xian Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3795622?pdf=render