Conditioning treatments affect insect and mite populations on bedding plants in the greenhouse

HortScience

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 235-238

  Latimer, Joyce G ^a   Oetting, Ronald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageratum (Ageratum houstonianum); Columbine (Aquilegia xhybrida); Green peach aphid (Myzus persicae); Irrigation; Marigold (Tagetes erecta); New Guinea impatiens (Impatiens xhybrida); Nutrition; Plant growth regulators; Stress; Two spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae; Western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis)

Indexed keywords

ACARI; AGERATUM HOUSTONIANUM; APHIDIDAE; AQUILEGIA; AQUILEGIA XHYBRIDA; ARANEAE; FRANKLINIELLA OCCIDENTALIS; FRANKLINIELLA TRITICI; IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS HAWKERI; IMPATIENS HAWKERII; INSECTA; MYZUS PERSICAE; PRUNUS PERSICA; TAGETES ERECTA; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE; URTICAE;

EID: 0032963647     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.34.2.235     Document Type: Article

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