Ability of the redbay ambrosia beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) to bore into young avocado (Lauraceae) plants and transmit the laurel wilt pathogen (Raffaelea sp.)

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 485-487

  Mayfield III, A E ^a   Pena J E ^b   Crane, J H ^b   Smith, J A ^c   Branch, C L ^a   Ottoson, E D ^a   Hughes, M ^c  

^a FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CULTIVAR; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; EVERGREEN TREE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNGUS; PATHOGEN;

AMBROSIA; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; FUNGI; LAURACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PERSEA AMERICANA; PERSEA BORBONIA; PLATYPODINI; QUERCUS VIRGINIANA; RAFFAELEA; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 51849154788     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/0015-4040(2008)91[485:AOTRAB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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