Importance of primary metabolites in canola in mediating interactions between a specialist leaf-feeding insect and its specialist solitary endoparasitoid

Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 241-250

  Soufbaf, Mahmoud ^a   Fathipour, Yaghoub ^a   Zalucki, Myron P ^b   Hui, Cang ^c  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Diadegma semiclausum; Insect fitness; Plant quality; Plutella xylostella

Indexed keywords

CANOLA; ENDOPARASITE; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LIFE TABLE; METABOLITE; MOTH; NITROGEN; POPULATION GROWTH; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION; WASP;

BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; DIADEGMA SEMICLAUSUM; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; PLUTELLIDAE;

EID: 84861457991     PISSN: 18728855     EISSN: 18728847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11829-012-9182-7     Document Type: Article

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