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The predatory mite Typhlodromalus aripo prefers green-mite induced plant odours from pubescent cassava varieties.
Experimental & applied acarology - 1 Dec 2012
Onzo Alexis, Hanna Rachid, Sabelis Maurice W
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It is well known that plant-inhabiting predators use herbivore-induced plant volatiles to locate herbivores being their prey. Much less known, however, is the phenomenon that genotypes of the same host plant species vary in the attractiveness of these induced chemical signals, whereas they also differ in characteristics that affect the predator's foraging success, such as leaf pubescence. In a series of...
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