ANNOTATION OF WHITEFLY EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS AND VALIDATION OF GENES WITH POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANCE TO BEGOMOVIRUS TRANSMISSION

The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera) complex is the sole arthropod vector of the genus, Begomovirus (family, Geminiviridae), which causes debilitating diseases of plants, worldwide. Virus-vector specificity is conferred through co-evolved, whitefly vector-viral capsid protein-protein...

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Main Author: Saripalli, Chandrasekhar
Other Authors: Brown, Judith K.
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193455