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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Stinkbug"”.
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Aggregation Pheromone Biosynthesis and Engineering in Plants for Stinkbug Pest Management
Stinkbugs (Pentatomidae) and other agricultural pests such as bark beetles and flea beetles are known to synthesize terpenoids as aggregation pheromones. Knowledge of the genes and enzymes involved in pheromone biosynthesis may allow engineering of pheromone biosynthetic pathways in plants to …
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Molecular biological studies on neuropeptides of the adipokinetic hormone/red pigment-concentrating hormone family and the neuroparsin family in the arthropod sister groups of insects and crustaceans
… flea D. pulex and the NP from the southern green stinkbug, Nezara viridula. The study also investigates the localisation and expression profiles of the AKH/RPCH and NP transcripts within crustaceans and insects.
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Nutritional and Medicinal value of the edible stinkbug, Encosternum delegorguei Spinola consumed in the Limpopo Province of South Africa and its host plant Dodonaea viscosa Jacq. var. angustifolia
In most rural areas, reliance on traditional medicine and food is high and this is attributed to both economic and cultural factors. The edible stink-bug (Encosternum delegorgueiSpinola), local name “thongolifha” is consumed by the Venda tribe in Limpopo Province of South Africa. Thongolifha is …
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Biological control agents of soybean insect pests in the Tidewater area of Virginia
… control agent which attacked the green stinkbug, <u>Acrosternum hilare</u> (Say). Host and habitdt preferences of the fly suggested the presence of two strains in Virginia. Distribution of the fly was very uneven. Fungal disease was found to be an important control agent of many (larval) …