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Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, is a polyfag insect and one of the important pests in vegetable plants at Indonesia. Loss of yield due to whitefly attack on host plants is 20% -100%. Chemical control with pesticides is less effective because the whitefly body is covered by a layer of wax. Whitefly control with resistant or tolerant plants is needed. Whitefly is a sap-sucking leaf plant insect. Therefore plant vegetables breeding for resistance varieties or tolerance refers to the leaf morphology as physical barrier such as number of trichome, slope of trichome, density and length of palisade tissue, cuticula layer and leaf thickness. The aim of this study was to review the effects of leaf morphology of the Bemisia tabaci Genn. on Brassicaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Fabaceae, Malvaceae and Solanaceae. With this summarize character target of plant vegetables breeding will become more clearer to be achieved.