Quantifying Neodiprion sertifer nucleopolyhedrovirus DNA from insects, foliage and forest litter using the quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 120-125

  Krokene, Paal ^a   Heldal, Inger ^a   Fossdal, Carl G ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Baculovirus; Bio insecticide; Diprionidae; NeseNPV; Pinus sylvestris; QPCR; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

DIPRIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; NEODIPRION SERTIFER; NEODIPRION SERTIFER NPV; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84876429070     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/afe.12003     Document Type: Article

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