The best host plants from Bemisia tabaci are eggplant, tomato, common bean, cucumber and pepper, please check this paper attached.

From my opinion, I think squash, cabbage, cauliflowers, cotton and hibiscus are good host plants for rearing Bemisia Biotpye B

In my lab (Spain), we rear the whitefly (Bemisia tabaci B biotype) in tomato,eggplant and melon.

Dear Docs.,

My research involves studies utilizing EPG and we found differences in the colonies maintained in the laboratory and that we collect in potato and bean crop areas . To prevent a pre imaginal conditioning we are studying a host alternative that is well accepted by whiteflies. Thanks for your help. 

Caro João Paulo Narita, com certeza estamos fazendo isto. Elas estão bem isoladas em casas de vegetação diferentes, pois além de B. tabaci temos Trialeurodes vaporariorum. O principal problema é a diferença que temos nos testes utilizando populações sadias e coletadas em campo, respostas diferentes nos testes de EPG, provavelmente algo relacionado a resistência destas populações. Vc. esta trabalhando com o joão ou o Pedro?? . Um abraço. Fernando Salas

Bemisia  tabaci Biotype B vectors several serious plant-pathogenic geminiviruses like  tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), tomato mottle virus (TMoV), and bean golden mosaic virus (BGMV). If you want to study virus transmission then bean and tomato are the best host plants for rearing Bemisia under laboratory conditions

Narina, Um grande abraço a todos!! Quando precisar de alguma coisa passe pelo Instituto Biológico aqui em São Paulo.

Bemisia tabaci (Genn.) B-biotype is a polyphagous insect attacking many plant species of economic importance. Host selection for feeding and oviposition of adults and development and survival of immatures of of B. tabaci, eggplant, tomato, cucumber, soybean  and pepper are very suited host plants for B. tabaci B Type.

Cassava (Manihot esculenta C.)  can also be a good host especially some IITA improved varietieslike IITA TMS 96/0023

The best host plant, form B. tabaci is the egg plant. The fertility rate is high and the insect present an execellent adaption and performance in these host plant. 

 Hi Fernando;

Comparative on development and reproduction between Bemisia tabaci biotype B and Trialeurodes vaporariorum on four species of host-plants

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288751899_Comparative_on_development_and_reproduction_between_Bemisia_tabaci_biotype_B_and_Trialeurodes_vaporariorum_on_four_species_of_host-plants

Article Comparative on development and reproduction between Bemisia ...

Hello Refki, 

thanks a lot for the paper. It's very interesting Is very interesting to compare with some studies done with differential host plants developed here in Brazil. 

I think the best host is eggplant; tomato, cucumber, soybean  and pepper are good hosts too.