Plant response to touch affects the behaviour of aphids and ladybirds

Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 171-181

  Markovic, Dimitrije ^a   Glinwood, Robert ^b   Olsson, Ulf ^b   Ninkovic, Velemir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BANJA LUKA   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aphid host plant acceptance; Aphis fabae; Coccinella septempunctata; Habitat selection; Rhopalosiphum padi; Volatile cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901193270     PISSN: 18728855     EISSN: 18728847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11829-014-9303-6     Document Type: Article

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