Optical manipulation for control of bemisia tabaci and its vectored viruses in the greenhouse and open field

Abstract

During the past 20 years, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) has become a major pest of crops throughout numerous tropical and subtropical zones in the world. In addition to damage caused by direct feeding pressure, B. tabaci transmits 111 virus species, including the notorious Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) and a wide range of other viral pathogens assigned to the Begomovirus, Crinivirus, Closterovirus, Ipomovirus and Carlavirus genera (Duffus 1987; Markham et al. 1994; Brown et al. 1995; Jones 2003). © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010.