High mortality caused by high dose of dsRNA in the green rice leafhopper Nephotettix cincticeps (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 553-559

  Tomizawa, Makoto ^a,b   Noda, Hiroaki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

dsRNA; Injection dose; Leafhopper; Nephotettix; RNAi

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886770086     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: 1347605X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13355-013-0211-5     Document Type: Article

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