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Nutrition versus defense: Why Myzus persicae (green peach aphid) prefers and performs better on young leaves of cabbage

Plant leaves of different ages differ in nutrients and toxic metabolites and thus exhibit various resistance levels against insect herbivores. However, little is known about the influence of leaf ontogeny on plant resistance to phloem-feeding insects. In this study, we found that the green peach aph...

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Autores principales: Cao, He-He, Zhang, Zhan-Feng, Wang, Xiao-Feng, Liu, Tong-Xian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5912751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29684073
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196219