Monitoring of field populations of the silverleaf whitefly for susceptibility to insecticides is an essential part of a resistance management program and will help ensure the continued availability and sustainability of these indispensable management tools for whitefly control.  The use of adult repellents, especially for protecting tomato seedlings in transplant production houses, could improve management of whitefly-vectored viruses with reduced adverse environmental impact.  The development of tomato germplasm resistant to the SLWF could result in fewer applications of insecticides and improved control.  The identification of pesticides and pesticidal rotations will help ensure the continued management of key arthropod pests of vegetable crops grown in Florida and elsewhere.

Advanced breeding lines highly resistant to begomoviruses released from our research project have been utilized in tomato breeding programs worldwide.  In addition, molecular markers developed from this project have also been widely applied in tomato breeding programs for marker-assisted selection.  Commercial hybrids utilizing our released breeding lines and marker information (such as Carmencita in Spain and Llanero in Guatemala), have been released by seed companies.