Effect of Viral Concentration and Body Weight on Mortality of Larvae of Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Exposed to Wild-Type or Recombinant Strains of the Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus of Autographa californica (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 955-960

  Ignoffo, C M ^a   Garcia, C ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autographa californica; Baculovirus; Mortality rate; Nuclear; Polyhedrosis virus; Recombinants; Wild type strains

Indexed keywords

AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA; AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; CYPOVIRUS; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; SCORPIONES; TRICHOPLUSIA NI; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED NUCLEAR POLYHEDROSIS VIRUSES;

EID: 0001478489     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/26.4.955     Document Type: Article

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