Host plant adaptation in the glasshouse whitefly

Thomas, D.C.

doi:10.1111/j.1439-0418.1993.tb00408.x

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“…Accordingly, adult feeding and egg laying preference and immature performance of B. tabaci mainly manipulated by plant features and partially by whitefly populations, supported by the results of Thomas [48] and Jiao [35]. The plant features include the nutrition of phloem sap, presence of secondary metabolites, and leaf surface characteristics [49,50].…”

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Feeding Experience of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Affects Their Performance on Different Host Plants

Shah

Liu

2013

PLoS ONE

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The sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci biotype B is extremely polyphagous with >600 species of host plants. We hypothesized that previous experience of the whitefly on a given host plant affects their host selection and performance on the plants without previous experience. We investigated the host selection for feeding and oviposition of adults and development and survival of immatures of three host-plant-experienced populations of B. tabaci, namely Bemisia-eggplant, Bemisia-tomato and Bemisia-cucumber, on their experienced host plant and each of the three other plant species (eggplant, tomato, cucumber and pepper) without previous experience. We found that the influence of previous experience of the whiteflies varied among the populations. All populations refused pepper for feeding and oviposition, whereas the Bemisia-cucumber and the Bemisia-eggplant strongly preferred cucumber. Bemisia-tomato did not show strong preference to any of the three host palnts. Development time from egg to adult eclosion varied among the populations, being shortest on eggplant, longest on pepper, and intermediate on tomato and cucumber except for the Bemisia-cucumber developed similarly on tomato and pepper. The survivorship from egg to adult eclosion of all populations was highest on eggplant (80-98%), lowest on pepper (0-20%), and intermediate on tomato and cucumber. In conclusion, the effects of previous experience of whiteflies on host selection for feeding and oviposition, development, and survivorship varied depending on host plants, and host plants play a stronger role than previous experience. Preference of feeding and oviposition by adults may not accurately reflect host suitability of immatures. These results provided important information for understanding whitefly population dynamics and dispersal among different crop systems.

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Feeding Experience of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Affects Their Performance on Different Host Plants

Shah

Liu

2013

PLoS ONE

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“…The acceptance ranks are not only influenced by plant factors, but also by whitefly strains (van Boxtel et al, 1978;Thomas, 1993), i.e., a whitefly population that has been reared on a certain plant species for more than 50 generations. Transferring insects from a plant on which they have been reared for a long time to a new host plant species can result in changed performance.…”

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Probing and feeding characteristics of the greenhouse whitefly in association with host‐plant acceptance and whitefly strains

Lei

Tjallingii²,

Lenteren³

1998

Entomologia Exp Applicata

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Host-plant and whitefly strain effects and their interactions on the probing and sap feeding of the greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood), have been investigated in this study using the DC-EPG (Electrical Penetration Graph) technique. Whiteflies generally displayed fewer but longer probes on highly acceptable cucumber than on less acceptable tomato. Both whitefly strains, the T(omato)-strain and the C(ucumber)-strain, showed a significantly lower number of phloem phases on cucumber than on tomato. However, the duration of total phloem phases achieved by either of the whitefly strains on these two host plants was not significantly different. These data indicate that a more continuous phloem feeding has occurred on cucumber plants. Indeed, the percentage of phloem feeding time after the first sustained phloem phase (longer than 15 min) was higher on cucumber for the C-strain whiteflies. When comparing these two whitefly strains, the T-strain whiteflies probed less frequently but longer than the C-strain whiteflies did on both host plants. Also, the T-strain whiteflies displayed a longer duration of total phloem phases on tomato. An interaction between the whitefly strain and plant effects was detected on a parameter, which showed that whiteflies probed significantly longer before reaching the first phloem phase on the host plants that had been previously experienced. In conclusion, both plant species and whitefly strains affect whitefly's probing and feeding behaviour, though plant effects are much stronger.

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“…Preconditioning or long‐term experience of a host might in some cases lead to changes of host preference that can be either cumulative or reversible (Papaj & Prokopy, ), whereas in other cases preconditioning has no effect on insect performance (Lee et al., ). Preconditioning may cause differences in insect performance in terms of fecundity, survival, and development time on experienced compared to novel hosts (Thomas, ; Coyle et al., ). Ultimately, on an evolutionary time scale, such differences could lead to speciation through host races (Drès & Mallet, ).…”

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“…Both generalist whitefly species can develop a preference for and better performance on certain hosts with a prolonged period of host experience (Roditakis, 1990;Byrne & Bellows, 1991;Bernays & Minkenberg, 1997;Lei et al, 1998;Bezerra, 2004;Ma et al, 2005). The time that is required for preference to develop depends on the plant species: it can be 50 whitefly generations on some plants (Thomas, 1993) or only three on others (Greenberg et al, 2009). Observations of T. vaporariorum host races were reported from sweet pepper cultivars in Hungary, whereas preconditioning of other populations to this host have never resulted in the same insect performance (Thomas, 1993).…”

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“…The time that is required for preference to develop depends on the plant species: it can be 50 whitefly generations on some plants (Thomas, 1993) or only three on others (Greenberg et al, 2009). Observations of T. vaporariorum host races were reported from sweet pepper cultivars in Hungary, whereas preconditioning of other populations to this host have never resulted in the same insect performance (Thomas, 1993). Preconditioning may also result in lower performance on novel hosts, for example, the first generation of B. tabaci on a novel host had a shorter life span and lower fecundity than on hosts they had had experience with (Hu et al, 2011).…”

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Preconditioning of the generalist herbivore Trialeurodes vaporariorum to greenhouse monocultures and its subsequent performance on wild polycultures

Ovcarenko

Lindström

Saikkonen

et al. 2016

Entomologia Exp Applicata

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Generalist herbivores can face many challenges when choosing their host plant. This can be particularly difficult if their choice and performance are affected by host experience. Greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), is an invasive generalist herbivore, which has established in year‐round greenhouses at northern latitudes where it cannot overwinter outdoors. It mainly uses crops such as cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), and ornamentals as host plants. However, every summer the insect escapes greenhouses and is exposed to natural vegetation. We evaluated the performance of T. vaporariorum on diverse vegetation outside greenhouses after prolonged experience of greenhouse crops. First, we surveyed the vegetation near infested greenhouses. Development success of the insect differed among wild hosts. We identified five new hosts among 12 plant species that bore pupae and were thus considered suitable as the insect's host plants. Members of the Urticaceae and Onagraceae were the most preferred and frequently inhabited by all insect life stages. The highest abundance of insects occurred in plots with low plant species richness, independent of plant family in these habitats. We then studied experimentally the impact of 1 year of preconditioning to one of three common greenhouse crops, cucumber, tomato, or poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch), on the performance of the preconditioned adults and their progeny on four wild plants. Adults from tomato and poinsettia preferred the novel host species over the species to which they were preconditioned. The whitefly population preconditioned to cucumber was the most fecund on all offered hosts. We conclude that generalist herbivores can have large variation in performance, despite polyphagy, on novel hosts as shown by the variable abundance of T. vaporariorum pupae among outdoor hosts. Furthermore, performance of whiteflies on natural vegetation was affected by experience on greenhouse crops. Based on our observations, we provide insights and recommendations for pest management.

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Host plant adaptation in the glasshouse whitefly

Cited by 7 publications

References 76 publications

Feeding Experience of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Affects Their Performance on Different Host Plants

Feeding Experience of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Affects Their Performance on Different Host Plants

Probing and feeding characteristics of the greenhouse whitefly in association with host‐plant acceptance and whitefly strains

Preconditioning of the generalist herbivore Trialeurodes vaporariorum to greenhouse monocultures and its subsequent performance on wild polycultures

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