Abstract
Whiteflies are vectors of plant viral diseases. The rate of disease transmission by whiteflies on cassava continue to present a complex of efficiency in relation to species diversity. An experiment...
Highlights
The whitefly insect has associations with almost 600 different species of plant which comprise a large number of both cultivated and non-cultivated as well as both annual and perennials crops
Species pathogen transmission rate It was observed that only B. tabaci species were capable of transmitting both CBSD and CMD diseases, whereas for the CBSD all species were able to transmit the disease but at different rates and with different numbers of whiteflies introduced (Figure 1)
The transmission of CMVD was significant (p < 0.05) by viruliferous B. tabaci species when fed on healthy plants for 6 h at 44 ± 16% followed by when fed for 24 h at 22 ± 31 and at ± 16% when same species was fed for h
Summary
The whitefly insect has associations with almost 600 different species of plant which comprise a large number of both cultivated and non-cultivated as well as both annual and perennials crops Njoroge works for Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock in Kitui County. He is currently training on Master of Science in Crop Protection at the University of Nairobi. He has carried out a greenhouse study on rate of viral disease transmission by different whitefly species at KALRO Katumani Research Centre where Dr Daniel Mutisya supervised his research activity. At present is the contact extension person on Crops in Kitui County. Kilalo are his Msc supervisors of his thesis proposal from University of Nairobi
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