Azadirachtin: - Advances in understanding its activity as an antifeedant

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-26

  Simmonds, M S J ^a   Blaney, W M ^b  

^a JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

allelochemicals; contact chemoreceptors; electrophysiology; feeding; Locusta migratoria; Schistocerca gregaria; secondary plant metabolites; Spodoptera littoralis

Indexed keywords

LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA; MYTHIMNA UNIPUNCTA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; SPODOPTERA LITTORALIS;

EID: 0029745131     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1996.tb00877.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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