Nwanze, K F and Reddy, Y V R and Soman, P (1990) The role of leaf surface wetness in larval behaviour of the sorghum shoot fly, Atherigona soccata. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 56 (2). pp. 187-195. ISSN 1570-7458
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Abstract
The susceptibility of sorghum to the shoot fly Atherigona soccata Rondani, (Diptera: Muscidae) is affected by seedling age and is highest when seedlings are 8–12 days old. This corresponds with high moisture accumulation on the central leaf which is the path of newly hatched larva as it moves downwards from the oviposition site, towards the growing apex. Studies showed that leaf surface wetness (LSW) of the central shoot leaf was higher in 10-day old seedlings than in seedlings of other ages. Similarly, LSW was much higher in the susceptible sorghum genotype CSH 1 than in the resistant genotype IS 2146. Larvae moved faster towards the growing point and produced deadhearts much earlier in CSH 1 than in IS 2146. They also moved faster in 10-day old seedlings than in seedlings of other ages. It was also shown that the leaf surface wetness of the central shoot leaf is a more reliable parameter of resistance than the glossy leaf trait or trichome density.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Mandate crops > Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Library ICRISAT |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2011 07:35 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2011 07:35 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/4965 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1570-7458.1990.tb01396... |
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| Acknowledgement: | Sorghum;shoot fly;seedlings;central shoot leaf;leaf surface wetness;larval movement;deadheart |
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