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Constitutive and inducible resistance to Atherigona soccata (Diptera: Muscidae) in Sorghum bicolor.
Journal of economic entomology - 1 Jun 2012
Chamarthi Siva K, Vijay Peter M, Sharma Hari C, Narasu Lakshmi M
Abstract excerpt
Host plant resistance is one of the important components for minimizing the losses because of sorghum shoot fly, Atherigona soccata (Diptera: Muscidae) attack. Therefore, we studied the constitutive and inducible biochemical mechanisms of resistance to A. soccata in a diverse array of sorghum genotypes to identify lines with diverse mechanisms of resistance to this insect. Fifteen sorghum genotypes with different...
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