Improved efficacy of neonicotinoid in tablet formulation on the control of tomato chlorosis virus by controlling the vector Bemisia tabaci

Table 1 Effect of neonicotinoid tablets on Bemisia tabaci and tomato chlorosis virus measured on days 32 and 46 after transplanting

Treatment /plant	Whitefly control (%)		Disease index (%)		Disease control (%)
Treatment /plant	32 d	46 d	32 d	46 d	32 d	46 d
Tablet of nitenpyram (5 mg) on seed	48.9 c	30.1 c	6.2 b	15.2 b	31.9 d	16.0 c
Tablet of nitenpyram (10 mg) on seed	51.2 c	35.0 c	4.0 cd	13.7 c	56.0 bc	24.3 b
Tablet of nitenpyram (5 mg) on seed followed by thiamethoxam (40 mg) at transplanting	79.5 b	56.1 b	2.7 e	10.7 d	70.3 a	40.9 a
Tablet of nitenpyram (10 mg) on seed followed by thiamethoxam (40 mg) at transplanting	80.9 ab	57.2 b	2.2 e	10.9 d	75.8 a	39.8 a
Tablet of thiamethoxam (40 mg) at transplanting	83.2 ab	62.9 a	3.8 cd	13.8 c	58.2 b	23.8 b
Thiamethoxam (60 g a.i./ha) on foliage	85.0 a	63.9 a	4.4 c	13.2 c	51.6 c	27.1 b
Non-treated control	–	–	9.1 a	18.1 a	–	–

The values within each column followed by different letters differ significantly (P ≤ 0.05). The infestation with B. tabaci in non-treated control was 136.4 per plant