The effect of snowdrop lectin (GNA) delivered via artificial diet and transgenic plants on Eulophus pennicornis (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), a parasitoid of the tomato moth Lacanobia oleracea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 983-991

  Bell, H A ^a   Fitches, E C ^b   Down, R E ^b   Marris, G C ^a   Edwards, J P ^a   Gatehouse, J A ^b   Gatehouse, A M R ^b  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eulophus; GNA; Lacanobia; Parasitoid host interactions; Risk assessment; Transgenic crop

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; PLANT LECTIN;

HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PEST CONTROL; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FERTILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LONGEVITY; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITISM; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WASP;

EULOPHIDAE; EULOPHUS PENNICORNIS; GALANTHUS NIVALIS; HYMENOPTERA; LACANOBIA OLERACEA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 0032776834     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(99)00077-3     Document Type: Article

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