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Indian Contribution to Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) Research

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Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) is a destructive insect pest and vector of Begomoviruses (family Geminiviridae) which transmits virus diseases in several important crop plants leading to severe losses in yield and quality. Whiteflies also attack and cause direct feeding damage to large number of plant species. The pest has been extensively studied world over by the several research groups. Similarly Indian workers also contributed significantly for the understanding of the pest and diseases transmitted by them. In this chapter we intend to provide overview of contribution of Indian workers to B. tabaci research. We cover several aspects of B. tabaci including basic studies on pest incidence and its management; identification of biotypes and their host range, season incidence, association with symbiotes, and also advanced studies related to genomics; whitefly management using novel proteins and RNAi in transgenic plants.

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  2. Division of Entomology, ICAR-IARI, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110012, India

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  3. Advanced Center for Plant Virology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

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Chandrashekar, K., Shashank, P.R. (2017). Indian Contribution to Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) Research. In: Mandal, B., Rao, G., Baranwal, V., Jain, R. (eds) A Century of Plant Virology in India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5672-7_25

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