The prospect of applying chemical elicitors and plant strengtheners to enhance the biological control of crop pests

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1639, 2014, Pages

  Sobhy, Islam S ^a,b,c   Erb, Matthias ^a,d   Lou, Yonggen ^e   Turlings, Ted C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biological control; Crop protection; Elicitors; Parasitoids; Plant strengtheners; Plant volatiles

Indexed keywords

AGROCHEMICAL; AGRONOMY; ATTRACTANT; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP PEST; CROP PRODUCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PARASITOID; PEST RESISTANCE; VIGOR; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE; WASP;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHEMISTRY; CROP; CROP PROTECTION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; ELICITORS; MAIZE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOIDS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT STRENGTHENERS; PLANT VOLATILES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP PROTECTION; ELICITORS; PARASITOIDS; PLANT STRENGTHENERS; PLANT VOLATILES;

AGROCHEMICALS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84907424743     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0283     Document Type: Article

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