Screening maize for resistance to chinch bug (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) under greenhouse conditions

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1318-1324

  Davis, Frank M ^a   Williams, W Paul ^a   Van Den Berg, Johnnie ^b  

^a CROP SCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARC GRAIN CROPS INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Blissus leucopterous leucopterous; Maize; Plant resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030499455     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/89.5.1318     Document Type: Article

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