Effects of turfgrass endophytes (Clavicipitaceae: Ascomycetes) on white grub (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) control by the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora (Rhabditida: Heterorhabditidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 392-396

  Koppenhöfer, Albrecht M ^a   Fuzy, Eugene M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclocephala borealis; Endophytes; Exomala orientalis; Festuca arundinacea; Insect parasitic nematodes; Popillia japonica

Indexed keywords

ENDOPHYTE; INSECT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NEMATODE; PARASITE; PEST AND DISEASE CONTROL;

ANOMALA ORIENTALIS; ASCOMYCETES; ASCOMYCOTA; CLAVICIPITACEAE; COLEOPTERA; CYCLOCEPHALA; CYCLOCEPHALA BOREALIS; EXOMALA ORIENTALIS; FESTUCA; FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; FESTUCA RUBRA; HETERORHABDITIDAE; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; INSECTA; JAPONICA; NEMATODA; POACEAE; POPILLIA JAPONICA; RHABDITIDA; SCARABAEIDAE; SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS;

EID: 0037396891     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.2.392     Document Type: Article

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