whitefly disease vector (1)

A study published in Ecological Applications, shows that a surge in pesticide usage has had an unusual effect on disease control in China's crops. While helping to eliminate much of a one of the top 100 invasive species, a pest known as the whitefly, it appears to actually have driven the growth of a different subtype of the same species. This now-booming subtype of whitefly is an enormous plant disease carrier—and as of 2012, it had become dominant in all but two of the 28 provinces and territories examined.

Read more at http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113411635/overuse-of-pesticides-is-devastating-chinas-crops-study-says-122315/#OJzKcQhf25GwFGEH.99

Study reported in Environmental Applications: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/14-0752.1/full

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