Henryk Czosnek

The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) is a major cosmopolitan pest capable of feeding on hundreds of plant species and transmiting several major plant viruses.The most important and widespread virus group vectored by B.tabaci is the genus Begomovirus, an unusual group of plant viruses owing to their small, single-stranded DNA genome, and geminate particle morphology. B.tabaci transmits begomoviruses in a circulative...