Effects of snowdrop lectin (Galanthus nivalis Agglutinin) expressed in transgenic sugarcane on fitness of cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a parasitoid of the nontarget pest diatraea saccharalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 81-83

  Setamou M ^a,b   Bernal, J S ^a   Legaspi, J C ^b   Mirkov, T E ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Cotesia flavipes; Development; Diatraea saccharalis; Galanthus nivalis agglutinin; Nontarget effects

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; NONTARGET ORGANISM; SUGAR CANE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA FLAVIPES; CRAMBINAE; DIATRAEA SACCHARALIS; EOREUMA LOFTINI; GALANTHUS; GALANTHUS NIVALIS; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR;

EID: 23744505470     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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