Host plant resistance among tomato accessions to the spider mite Tetranychus evansi in Kenya

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 385-393

  Onyambus, G K ^a   Maranga, R O ^a   Gitonga, L M ^a   Knapp, M ^b,c  

^a JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^c Koppert Biological Systems   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Host plant resistance; Red spider mites; Tomato accessions; Trichomes

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; FRUIT; HOST PLANT; LARVA; MITE; OVIPOSITION; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; RANGE SIZE; SURVIVAL; TRICHOME;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; KENYA; LONGEVITY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TETRANYCHIDAE; TOMATO;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; KENYA; LONGEVITY; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALE; OVIPOSITION; PLANT LEAVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TETRANYCHIDAE;

KENYA;

ACARI; ARANEAE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS EVANSI;

EID: 79960126328     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-011-9446-4     Document Type: Article

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