The feeding behaviour of Schistocerca gregaria, the desert locust, on two starch mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana

Chemoecology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 59-67

  Wright, Geraldine A ^a   Raubenheimer, David ^b   Hill, Steven ^b   Simpson, Stephen J ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Feeding behaviour; Nutritional rails; Schistocerca gregaria; Starch mutants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037968520     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000490050009     Document Type: Article

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