Biological effects of alkaloids extracted from three plants of Moroccan arid areas on the desert locust

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 232-236

  Abbassi, Khadija ^a   Atay Kadiri, Zineb ^a   Ghaout, Said ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^b Ctr Natl la lutte Antiacridienne   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Calotropis procera; Peganum harmala; Reproduction; Schistocerca gregaria; Survival; Zygophyllum gaetullum

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LOCUST; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

MOROCCO;

ACRIDIDAE; CALOTROPIS PROCERA; LACTUCA; ORTHOPTERA; PEGANUM HARMALA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; ZYGOPHYLLUM; ZYGOPHYLLUM GAETULUM;

EID: 0141838940     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3032.2003.00329.x     Document Type: Article

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