Drought and Root Herbivory Interact to Alter the Response of Above-Ground Parasitoids to Aphid Infested Plants and Associated Plant Volatile Signals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Tariq, Muhammad ^a   Wright, Denis J ^a   Bruce, Toby J A ^b   Staley, Joanna T ^a,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

APHID; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPTERA; DROUGHT; DROUGHT STRESS; EGG LAYING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTOMETER; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; DROUGHTS; FEMALE; HERBIVORY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALE; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; OVIPOSITION; PLANT ROOTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84880415218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069013     Document Type: Article

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