Effects of intercropping wheat and peas on the growth and development of Metopolophium dirhodum and Aphidius rhopalosiphi (A glasshouse simulation)

Pakistan Journal of Zoology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 271-275

  Haq, Ehsan Ul ^a   van Emden, H F ^b  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intercropping; Parasitoid of aphids; Rose grain aphid; Wheat cultivars

Indexed keywords

APHID; CROP PEST; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; INTERCROPPING; LEGUME; WHEAT;

APHIDIDAE; APHIDIUS; APHIDIUS RHOPALOSIPHI; BRACONIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; METOPOLOPHIUM; METOPOLOPHIUM DIRHODUM; PISUM SATIVUM; SITOBION AVENAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0942269605     PISSN: 00309923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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