The African yam bean seed lectin affects the development of the cowpea weevil but does not affect the development of larvae of the legume pod borer

Phytochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 667-674

  Machuka, Jesse S ^a   Okeola, Oladapo G ^a   Chrispeels, Maarten J ^b   Jackai, Louis E N ^a  

^a C/O LW Lambourn Co LTD Carolyn H ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African yam beans; Callosobruchus maculatus; Cowpea weevil; Insect bioassays; Legume pod borer; Maruca vitrata; Sphenostylis stenocarpa

Indexed keywords

LECTIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEAN; CHEMISTRY; COLEOPTERA; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; LEGUME; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; FABACEAE; INSECTS; LARVA; LECTINS; LEPIDOPTERA; PLANT LECTINS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; BRUCHINAE; CALLOSOBRUCHUS MACULATUS; COLEOPTERA; DIOSCOREA ALATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MARUCA; MARUCA VITRATA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PYRALIDAE; SPHENOSTYLIS STENOCARPA;

EID: 0034620692     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9422(99)00574-9     Document Type: Article

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