Whiteflies and plant viruses can help each other to speed up biological invasion
...plants in 56 days. No doubt increase of infectious whiteflies will in turn speed up virus pandemics. In contrast...or." The study also shows that infection of the whiteflies per se has limited effects on the survival and fecundity of the vectors, and the B whitefly acquires......s on the non-Bt fields cut down on the damage from whiteflies and western tarnished plant bugs. To see what factors affected insect biodiversity in the cotton fields, the researchers used a type of statistical analysis called path analysis. Factors that affected biodiversity included the sandiness of the soil...