Article
Conventional breeding for resistance to Bemisia tabaci-transmitted geminiviruses
2001-11-01
Abstract excerpt
The whitefly Bemisia tabaci Genn. is a pervasive pest and vector of plant viruses. The existence of B. tabaci biotypes and numerous whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses (begomoviruses) affecting food and industrial crops has become a major constraint to agricultural development in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The predominant whitefly and begomovirus method of control has been the application of ins...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 715cacde-6530-5fba-9805-6a281684ba11
- DOI
- 10.1016/s0261-2194(01)00114-4
