Plant surfaces of vegetable crops mediate interactions between chemical footprints of true bugs and their egg parasitoids

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-23

  Giudice, Daniela Lo ^a   Peri, Ezio ^a   Bue, Mauro Lo ^a   Colazza, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brassica oleracea; Egg parasitoids; Insects; Southern green stink bug; Vicia faba

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; NEZARA VIRIDULA; VICIA FABA;

EID: 77952836581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.3.1.9794     Document Type: Article

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