Plasmodium species are the causative agents of malaria, the most devastating insect-borne parasite of human populations.
Brown plant-hopper (Nilaparvata lugens Stål, BPH), one of the most devastating agricultural insect pests of rice throughout Asia, ingests nutrients from rice sieve tubes and causes a dramatic yield loss. Planting resistant variety is an efficient and economical way to control this pest.
Lepidopterous species are among the most devastating and economically important insect pests causing quantitative and qualitative losses of the yields all over the world (Ndemah et al. 2001; Mazzi and Dorn 2012).
The Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann; Diptera: Tephritidae), is one of the most devastating and economically important insect pests [ 1].
Lepidoptera represents more than 160,000 insect species which include some of the most devastating pests of crops, forests, and stored products.
Deployment of natural and genetic resistance in locally adapted wheat cultivars is the most effective, economical, and environmentally safe method to control this devastating insect.
Aphids are the largest group of phloem-feeding insects and their enormous reproductive potential makes them some of the most devastating pests to crop production (Davis, 2012).
Lepidoptera, the second most biodiverse group of insect species after Coleoptera, represents more than 160,000 species including many of the most devastating pests of crops, forests and stored products [ 13].
It is the most devastating conclusion.
