Within the activities of the cultural season in the Plant Protection Department for the academic year 2021-2022, Prof. Dr. Ali Abdul-Hussein Karim Al-Rubaie (Head of the Plant Protection Department) gave a seminar entitled “The genetic structure of the pest community of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci and Trialeurodes vaporariorum and its molecular diagnosis and the accompanying symbiotic bacteria In the presence of all the department’s employees and graduate students… where I reviewed the most important topics.
1- The most important biological or genetic types of whiteflies.
2- population genetic structure of the pest community.
3- The most important types of symbiotic bacteria accompanying the pest, which may have an effect on the resistance of the whitefly to pesticides and the transmission of pathogens.
