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SUBMITTER: Elfekih S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5783331 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Elfekih S S Etter P P Tay W T WT Fumagalli M M Gordon K K Johnson E E De Barro P P
PloS one 20180124 1
Once considered a single species, the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, is a complex of numerous morphologically indistinguishable species. Within the last three decades, two of its members (MED and MEAM1) have become some of the world's most damaging agricultural pests invading countries across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas and affecting a vast range of agriculturally important food and fiber crops through both feeding-related damage and the transmission of numerous plant viruses. For some time ...[more]