Host plant and substrate effects on mortality of southern corn rootworm from entomopathogenic nematodes

Biological Control

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-96

  Eben, Astrid ^a,b   Barbercheck, Mary E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

cucurbitacin E; defense hypothesis; Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi; Heterorhabditis bacteriophora; Steinernema carpocapsae

Indexed keywords

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; DIABROTICA; DIABROTICA UNDECIMPUNCTATA HOWARDI; DIABROTICITES; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; NEMATODA; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031080217     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1996.0489     Document Type: Article

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