Physical leaf defenses - altered by Zea life-history evolution, domestication, and breeding - mediate oviposition preference of a specialist leafhopper

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 185-195

  Bellota, Edwin ^a   Medina, Raul F ^a   Bernal, Julio S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cicadellidae; Corn; Dalbulus maidis; Hemiptera; Landraces; Maize; Plant defense; Poaceae; Teosinte

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; CROP YIELD; DOMESTICATION; HOST PLANT; HYBRID; LIFE CYCLE; MAIZE; OVIPOSITION; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SPECIALIST;

EID: 84885146704     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eea.12122     Document Type: Article

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