Phylo-geographic analysis of whitefly on the basis of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase 1 gene/ Analise filogeografica da mosca-branca com base no gene citocromo oxidase 1 mitocondrial

• Published in: Brazilian journal of biology Vol. 84
• Main Authors: Ijaz, R, Ali, N.M, Ramzan, U, Qureshi, F, Baloch, S.R, Khan, M.A, Mazhar, B, Chaudhry, Maham
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association of the Brazilian Journal of Biology 01-01-2024
• Subjects: Aleyrodidae; Analysis; Beans; Cytochrome oxidase; Disease transmission; DNA sequencing; Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; Genes; Genetic research; Genetic vectors; Legumes; Mimosaceae; Nucleotide sequencing; Questions and answers; Brasil; China; Sub-Saharan Africa; Pakistan
• ISSN: 1519-6984
• DOI: 10.1590/1519-6984.252910

Bemisia tabaci is a species complex that causes damage to its broad range of plant hosts through serious feeding. It transmits plant viruses of different groups to important agricultural crops. Some important cash crops of Pakistan are sugar cane, rice, tobacco and seed oil. It shows high genetic variability and is differentiated as races or biotypes. Biotypes are, biotype Q, biotype B, biotype B2, biotype M, biotype L, biotype A, biotype H, biotype C, biotype K, biotype N, biotype R, biotype E, biotype P, biotype J, biotype S, biotype AN. Although the current report based on the Bayesian study of mitochondrial cytohrome oxidase gene1 (CO1) DNA sequences has classified the different populations of whiteflies into twelve genetic groups which are Mediterranean, Sub-Saharan Africa silver-leafing, Indian Ocean, Asia II, Asia I, Australia, New World, Italy, China, Sub-Saharan Africa non-silver-leafing, Mediterranean/ Asia Minor/Africa and Uganda sweet potato. Begomoviruses is largest group of viruses transmitted by B. tabaci and cause major diseases of crops such as tomato and chili leaf curl disease, cassava mosaic disease; yellow mosaic disease of legumes and cotton leaf curl disease. The main objective of current study is to inculpate knowledge regarding genetic diversity of whitefly in cotton fields across Pakistan via analysis of partial DNA sequence of mitochondrial gene Cytochrom Oxidase I (mtCO1).