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A Herbivorous Mite Down-Regulates Plant Defence and Produces Web to Exclude Competitors

Herbivores may interact with each other through resource competition, but also through their impact on plant defence. We recently found that the spider mite Tetranychus evansi down-regulates plant defences in tomato plants, resulting in higher rates of oviposition and population growth on previously...

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Autores principales: Sarmento, Renato A., Lemos, Felipe, Dias, Cleide R., Kikuchi, Wagner T., Rodrigues, Jean C. P., Pallini, Angelo, Sabelis, Maurice W., Janssen, Arne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21887311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023757