Impacts of transgenic sugarcane expressing GNA lectin on parasitism of Mexican rice borer by Parallorhogas pyralophagus (Marsh) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 866-872

  Tomov, Beverly Wachtel ^a,b   Bernal, Julio S ^a   Vinson, S Bradleigh ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Host acceptance; Host location; Host selection; Nontarget effects; Transgenic crops

Indexed keywords

HOST LOCATION; HOST SELECTION; PARASITISM; PEST RESISTANCE; SUGAR CANE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ARUNDINARIA; BRACONIDAE; EOREUMA LOFTINI; GALANTHUS; GALANTHUS NIVALIS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PARALLORHOGAS; PARALLORHOGAS PYRALOPHAGUS; PYRALIDAE; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR;

EID: 0141574099     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.4.866     Document Type: Article

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