Floral transmission of erwinia tracheiphila by cucumber beetles in a wild cucurbita pepo

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 140-148

  Sasu, M A ^a   Seidl Adams, I ^a   Wall, K ^a   Winsor, J A ^b   Stephenson, A G ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acalymma vittatum; Bacterial wilt disease; Cucurbita pepo ssp. texana; Erwinia tracheiphila; Real time polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; BEETLE; DICOTYLEDON; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; FLOWER; HERBIVORE; NECTARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XYLEM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; ERWINIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SQUASH;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CUCURBITA; ERWINIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES;

ACALYMMA VITTATUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS; COLEOPTERA; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITA PEPO; CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. TEXANA; DIABROTICA; ERWINIA; ERWINIA TRACHEIPHILA;

EID: 76649128092     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN09190     Document Type: Article

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