Soil moisture effects on entomopathogenic nematodes

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 80-87

  Grant, Jennifer A ^a   Villani, Michael G ^a  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Entomopathogenic nematodes; Heterorhabditis bacteriophora; Rehydration; Soil moisture; Steinernema spp.

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; NEMATODE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE;

GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HETERORHABDITIS; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEMATODA; PYRALIDAE; STEINERNEMA; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; STEINERNEMA FELTIAE; STEINERNEMA GLASERI;

EID: 0037307725     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.1.80     Document Type: Article

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