Tarnished plant bug (TPB) continues to be the most important pest of cotton in the midsouth, but management of this insect has not been successful because of the development of resistance to insecticides. Although a large number of studies have been conducted on TPB ecology, host utilization, distribution, and insecticide resistance, there is a general paucity of data on genetics of TPB. A large array of nucleotide sequence data is available in public databases to facilitate studies on genetics, population genomics, and physiology of TPB. In this manuscript we present a brief review of past work on TPB, and discuss what could be accomplished in the near future using currently available genetics resources.
Perera et al. (Mon,) studied this question.