Azadirachtin: Potential use for controlling lepidopterous insects and increasing marketability of cabbage

HortScience

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 405-409

  Leskovar, Daniel I ^a   Boales, A Kipp ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brassica oleracea; cabbage looper; diamondback moth; neem; Plutella xylostella; silverleaf whitefly; Trichoplusia ni

Indexed keywords

ALEYRODIDAE; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; AZADIRACHTA JUSS; BEMISIA ARGENTIFOLII; BRASSICA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; CAPITATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; TRICHOPLUSIA NI;

EID: 0029766859     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.31.3.405     Document Type: Article

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