Whitefly Transmission of Sweetpotato chlorotic stunt virus

The genus Crinivirus of the plant virus family Closteroviridae include members that are bipartite and whitefly-transmitted (2). The Crinivirus, Sweetpotato chlorotic stunt virus (SPCSV), was described from sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) in Nigeria (1). Vector transmission studies of SPCSV were conducted using two whitefly species, the sweetpotato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci biotype B) and the bandedwinged whitefly (Trialeurodes abutilonea). Whitefly...