Performance of the predator Delphastus pusillus on Bemisia resistant and susceptible tomato lines

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 345-352

  Heinz, Kevin M ^a   Zalom, Frank G ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bemisia argentifolii; biological control; host plant resistance; silverleaf whitefly; tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

BEMISIA; DELPHASTUS PUSILLUS; ALEYRODIDAE; BEMISIA ARGENTIFOLII; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HOMOPTERA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANACEAE;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; HOST-PLANT RESISTANCE; SILVERLEAF WHITEFLY; TOMATO; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0030301731     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1996.00105.x     Document Type: Article

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