Identification and selection of resistance to Bemisia tabaci among 550 cotton genotypes in the field and greenhouse experiments

Abstract

Plants have developed sophisticated systems to cope with herbivore challenge, including morphological barriers and secondary metabolites to reduce damage. In this study, 550 Gossypium genotypes were evaluated for whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) resistance in five experiments including two in the field and three in the greenhouse, with 23 resistant and 19 susceptible genotypes selected. Whitefly-resistance index determination showed that a leaf having a high density of hairs had resistance to whitfly egg/nymph production. Longer leaf hairs were also important for resistance. This study revealed that okra shaped leaves reduced adult whitefly oviposition preference, while glabrous leaves and high hair density helped not only in the reduction of the adults but also decreased oviposition preference. Gossypol was also observed to be involved in the reduction of adult whitefly development and/or survival.

Keywords

Bemisia tabaci / Gossypium genotypes / gossypol / leaf hair density / leaf hair length

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Supplementary materials

The online version of this article at https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2018223 contains supplementary materials (Figs. S1–S3; Tables S1–S4).

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Plan (2016YFD0100203-9), National Natural Science Foundation of China (31371673), National R Project of Transgenic Crops of Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2016ZX08010001-006) to Professor Shuangxia Jin.

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Lizhen Zhu, Jianying Li, Zhongping Xu, Hakim Manghwar, Sijia Liang, Suli Li, Muna Alariqi, Shuangxia Jin, and Xianlong Zhang declare that they have no conflicts of interest or financial conflicts to disclose.

This article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by any of the authors.

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