Contact with the host plant enhances aphid survival at low temperatures

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-31

  Butts, R A ^a,e   Howling, G G ^b   Bone, W ^b,d   Bale, J S ^b   Harrington, R ^c  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aphid; cold hardiness; insect plant interactions; Rhopalosiphum padi; winter survival

Indexed keywords

COLD TOLERANCE; HOST PLANT; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE;

APHIDIDAE; HOMOPTERA; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI;

EID: 0030618429     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1997.00027.x     Document Type: Article

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