caa a22 4500 397571313 CHVBK 20180308164842.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19961001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/ee/25.5.919 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/ee/25.5.919 Ultraviolet-Absorbing Plastic Sheets Protect Crops from Insect Pests and from Virus Diseases Vectored by Insects [Elektronische Daten] [Yeheskel Antignus, Netta Mor, Rachel Ben Joseph, Moshe Lapidot, Shlomo Cohen] Crops grown in walk-in tunnels covered with UV-absorbing plastic sheets were highly protected from infestation with sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius); western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande); and cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover. Protection against B. tabaci was associated with a dramatic reduction in the spread of the whitefly-borne geminivirus tomato yellow leaf curl (TYLCV) and with a pronounced delay in plant infection and disease severity. Two months after transplantation, the average TYLCV disease incidence under 3 different UV-absorbing plastic sheets was 50, 30, and 20% compared with 93% under UV-nonabsorbing polyethylene sheets. In additional experiments, it was shown that the UV-absorbing sheets were also highly effective in the protection of cucumbers against F. occidentalis and A. gossypii. Filtration of full spectrum and monochromatic UV light by UV-absorbing plastic sheets reduced significantly the attraction of B. tabaci to these light sources. The association of the described phenomena with the UV vision of insects is discussed. © 1996 Entomological Society of America Pest Management and Sampling nationallicence Bemisia tabaci nationallicence Frankliniella occidentalis nationallicence Aphis gossypii nationallicence tomato yellow leaf curl virus nationallicence vision behavior nationallicence Antignus Yeheskel Department of Virology, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel aut Mor Netta Department of Virology, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel aut Ben Joseph Rachel Department of Virology, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel aut Lapidot Moshe Department of Virology, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel aut Cohen Shlomo Department of Virology, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel aut Environmental Entomology Oxford University Press 25/5(1996-10-01), 919-924 0046-225X 25:5<919 1996 25 ee https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/25.5.919 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/25.5.919 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Antignus Yeheskel Department of Virology, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mor Netta Department of Virology, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ben Joseph Rachel Department of Virology, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lapidot Moshe Department of Virology, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cohen Shlomo Department of Virology, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Entomology Oxford University Press 25/5(1996-10-01), 919-924 0046-225X 25:5<919 1996 25 ee Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford