Effect of optical brighteners on the insecticidal activity of a nucleopolyhedrovirus in three instars of Spodoptera frugiperda

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-146

  Martínez, Ana Mabel ^a   Simón, Oihane ^a   Williams, Trevor ^a   Caballero, Primitivo ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Baculovirus; Bioassay; Fall armyworm; LC50; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Optical brighteners; Spodoptera frugiperda; Time to death

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOPESTICIDE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; VIRUS;

CYPOVIRUS; LEPIDOPTERA; MYTHIMNA UNIPUNCTA; NOCTUIDAE; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; SPODOPTERA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA MNPV; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 20244377643     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.2003.00100.x     Document Type: Article

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