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Virulence analysis of Hessian fly populations from Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
Journal of economic entomology - 1 Apr 2009
Chen Ming-Shun, Echegaray Erik, Whitworth R Jeffrey, Wang Haiyan, Sloderbeck Phillip E, Knutson Allen, Giles Kristopher L, Royer Tom A
Abstract excerpt
In recent years, the number of wheat, Triticum aestivum L., fields heavily infested by Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor (Say), has increased in the Great Plains of the United States. Historically, resistance genes in wheat have been the most efficient means of controlling this insect pest. To determine which resistance genes are still effective in this area, virulence of six Hessian fly populations from Texas,...
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