Response of hosts of varying susceptibility to a recombinant baculovirus insecticide in the field

Biological Control

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-127

  Hernández Crespo, Pedro ^a   Hails, Rosemary S ^a   Sait, Steven M ^a   Green, Bernadette M ^a   Carty, Timothy M ^a   Cory, Jennifer S ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autographa californica; Bioinsecticide; Genetically modified virus; Mamestra brassicae; Neurotoxin; Nucleopolyhedrovirus; Risk assessment; Trichoplusia ni

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; PLANT DISEASE CONTROL;

AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA; AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; CYPOVIRUS; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMESTRA BRASSICAE; MAMESTRA BRASSICAE NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; SCORPIONES; TRICHOPLUSIA NI; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0345035260     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1999.0753     Document Type: Article

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