Table 1. Bemisia tabaci lines studied.
Line | Symbiont compositiona | Origin |
scattered Rickettsia (S) | Portiera, Rickettsia, Hamiltonella | SSC strain. Zora, Israel, 1987 (ARO) |
confined Rickettsia (C) | Portiera, Rickettsia, Hamiltonella | Tel Aviv Univ. (R+ and R- strains described in chiel et al. [39]). |
Rickettsia-free (R-) | Portiera, Hamiltonella |