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Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Section Symposium

Ecology, Epidemiology, and Management of Whiteflies and Whitefly-transmitted Viruses On-Demand Presentations

Evaluating transgenic tomato for resistance to the sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

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    Presenting Author(s)

  • Sharon Andreason

    Research Entomologist
    USDA-ARS
    Charleston, South Carolina

    • Co-Author(s)

  • AS

    Alvin Simmons

    USDA-ARS, Vegetable Research
    Charleston, South Carolina

  • Daniel K. Hasegawa

    Research Entomologist
    USDA-ARS, Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit
    Salinas, California

    • Co-author(s)

  • KL

    Kai-shu Ling

    USDA-ARS
    Charleston, South Carolina

The sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius), is one of the most economically significant plant pests worldwide. Host plant resistance to whiteflies is often insufficient, and management of B. tabaci largely relies on unsustainable chemical insecticide applications. Recently, transgenic tomato lines were developed with the intent to confer RNAi-based resistance to B. tabaci MEAM1. These transgenic tomatoes are under evaluation for the exhibition of resistance to this pest.