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Inheritance and characterization of strong resistance to phosphine in Sitophilus oryzae (L.).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Nguyen Tam T, Collins Patrick J, Ebert Paul R
Abstract excerpt
Sitophilus oryzae (Linnaeus) is a major pest of stored grain across Southeast Asia and is of increasing concern in other regions due to the advent of strong resistance to phosphine, the fumigant used to protect stored grain from pest insects. We investigated the inheritance of genes controlling resistance to phosphine in a strongly resistant S. oryzae strain (NNSO7525) collected in Australia and find that the...
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