UV-blocking plastic films and nets influence vectors and virus transmission on greenhouse tomatoes in the humid tropics

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1069-1082

  Kumar, Prabhat ^a,b   Poehling, H M ^b  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bemisia tabaci; Ceratothripoides claratris; Humid tropics; Tospovirus; UV blocking nets and plastic films

Indexed keywords

APHID; FLY; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; HUMID TROPICS; PEST SPECIES; PLANT; THRIPS; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VIRUS;

ALEYRODIDAE; APHIDIDAE; APHIS GOSSYPII; BEMISIA TABACI; CAPSICUM CHLOROSIS VIRUS; CERATOTHRIPOIDES CLARATRIS; INSECTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; TOSPOVIRUS;

EID: 33750202626     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-35.4.1069     Document Type: Article

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