Ultraviolet-blocking greenhouse plastic films for management of insect pests

HortScience

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 465-

  Costa, Heather S ^a   Newman, Julie ^b   Robb, Karen L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphids; Cultural control; Eustoma grandiflorum; Leafminers; Lisianthus; Thrips; Trialeurodes vaporariorum; Whiteflies

Indexed keywords

ALEYRODIDAE; APHIDIDAE; EUSTOMA; EUSTOMA GRANDIFLORUM; INSECTA; TRIALEURODES VAPORARIORUM;

EID: 0038679228     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.38.3.465     Document Type: Note

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