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Development of acaricide resistance in Pacific spider mite (Tetranychus pacificus) from California vineyards.
Experimental & applied acarology - 1 Mar 2010
Stavrinides Menelaos C, Van Nieuwenhuyse Pieter, Van Leeuwen Thomas, Mills Nicholas J
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In recent years, grape growers in California reported failures of acaricides against Tetranychus pacificus McGregor. We collected T. pacificus populations from four vineyards and tested them for resistance to bifenazate, propargite and pyridaben. In addition, we sequenced part of the cytochrome b gene of bifenazate-resistant and -susceptible T. pacificus to test for the presence of mutations reported to confer...
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