Is it feasible to use optical brightener technology with a baculovirus bioinsecticide for resource-poor maize farmers in mesoamerica?

Biological Control

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 174-181

  Martínez, Ana Mabel ^a   Goulson, Dave ^b   Chapman, Jason W ^b   Caballero, Primitivo ^c   Cave, Ronald D ^d   Williams, Trevor ^a  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^d ZAMORANO UNIVERSITY   (Honduras)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Nuclear polyhedrosis virus; Spodoptera frugiperda; Synergism; Tinopal LPW

Indexed keywords

BACULOVIRUS; BIOCIDE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CANADA; CHEMICAL PEST CONTROL; HONDURAS; MAIZE; MEXICO; MORTALITY; OPTICAL BRIGHTENER; PARASITISM; TINOPAL; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION;

SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA;

EID: 0343920809     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1999.0786     Document Type: Article

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