Cereal and grass hosts of the rice root aphid, Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominalis (Sasaki), and a description of an efficient greenhouse rearing technique

Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-59

  Kindler, Dean ^a   Hesler, Louis ^a,b   Elliott, Norman ^a   Shufran, Kevin ^a   Springer, Tim ^b  

^a USDA ARS   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultivated cereals; Forage grasses; Plant hosts; Rearing technique

Indexed keywords

APHIDIDAE; AVENA; GRAMINAE; HEMIPTERA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; LEYMUS ANGUSTUS; POACEAE; RHOPALOSIPHUM RUFIABDOMINALIS; SECALE CEREALE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 26444497088     PISSN: 15235475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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