Effect of temperature and Lepidopteran host species on entomopathogenic nematode (Nematoda: Steinernematidae, Heterorhabditidae) infection

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 876-883

  Gouge, Dawn H ^a,b   Lee, Linda L ^a   Henneberry, Thomas J ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entomopathogenic nematodes; Heterorhabditis; Infectivity; Lepidopteran cotton pests; Steinernema; Temperature

Indexed keywords

HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PATHOGENICITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

GELECHIIDAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HETERORHABDITIDAE; HETERORHABDITIS; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MYTHIMNA UNIPUNCTA; NEMATODA; NOCTUIDAE; PECTINOPHORA GOSSYPIELLA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; STEINERNEMA; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; STEINERNEMA RIOBRAVE; STEINERNEMA RIOBRAVIS; STEINERNEMATIDAE; TRICHOPLUSIA NI;

EID: 0032698476     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/28.5.876     Document Type: Article

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