Assessing European Egg Parasitoids as a Mean of Controlling the Invasive South American Tomato Pinworm Tuta absoluta

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Chailleux, Anaïs ^a,b   Desneux, Nicolas ^a   Seguret, Julien ^b   Do Thi Khanh, Hong ^a   Maignet, Pascal ^b   Tabone, Elisabeth ^a  

^a Institut Sophia Agrobiotech   (France)

^b Biotop   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODAL PLANT DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; EGG PARASITOID; EUROPE; FEMALE; GREENHOUSE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOPTERA; LABORATORY TEST; LEPIDOPTERA; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PLANT LEAFLET; SCREENING TEST; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOMATO; TRICHOGRAMMA; TRICHOGRAMMA ACHAEAE; TRICHOGRAMMA EUPROCTIDIS; TRICHOGRAMMA EVANESCENS; TUTA ABSOLUTA;

ANIMALS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LINEAR MODELS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOTHS; OVUM; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WASPS;

ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; TRICHOGRAMMA; TRICHOGRAMMA ACHAEAE; TUTA ABSOLUTA;

EID: 84868153036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048068     Document Type: Article

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