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Stopped in its tracks: how λ-cyhalothrin can break the aphid transmission of a potato potyvirus.
Pest management science - 1 Dec 2015
Fenton Brian, Salter William T, Malloch Gaynor, Begg Graham, Anderson Eric
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BACKGROUND: Pyrethroids are one of the most widespread and commonly used classes of insecticide and are used in multiple roles, including protecting potato crops from virus vector aphids. Resistance in some genotypes of a few species is now widespread, but most species remain susceptible. The rate of virus transmission by two genotypes of the peach potato aphid, Myzus persicae, fed on potato virus Y...
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