Arbuscular mycorrhiza enhances preference of ovipositing predatory mites for direct prey-related cues

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 90-95

  Hoffmann, Daniela ^a   Vierheilig, Horst ^a,b   Schausberger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aboveground belowground interactions; Acari; Behaviour; Foraging; Glomus mosseae; Herbivore; Oviposition; Phytoseiulus persimilis; Predator

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; EGG PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; FUNGUS; HOST PLANT; LEGUME; MITE; NATURAL ENEMY; OVIPOSITION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY PREFERENCE; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

ACARI; ARANEAE; ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GLOMUS MOSSEAE; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

EID: 79951545482     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2010.00751.x     Document Type: Article

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