Plant-aphid interactions with a focus on legumes

Sap-sucking insects such as aphids cause substantial yield losses in agriculture by draining plant nutrients as well as vectoring viruses. The main method of control in agriculture is through the application of insecticides. However, aphids rapidly evolve mechanisms to detoxify these, so there is a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kamphuis, L., Zulak, Katherine, Gao, L., Anderson, J., Singh, K.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32100