Developing economic thresholds for onion thrips in Honduras

Crop Protection

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1099-1107

  Rueda, Alfredo ^a   Badenes Perez, Francisco R ^a   Shelton, Anthony M ^a  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Action threshold; Economic injury level; Economic threshold; Onion thrips; Thrips tabaci

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRONOMY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; MARKET CONDITIONS; ROOT VEGETABLE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; HONDURAS;

ALLIUM CEPA; THRIPS TABACI;

EID: 34250654520     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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