Cost/benefit analysis of a sorghum hybrid resistant to sorghum midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)

Southwestern Entomologist

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 105-116

  Ervin, R Terry ^a   Khalema, Tieiso M ^a   Peterson, Gary C ^a,b   Teetes, George L ^a,b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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