Feeding Sites of the Green Peach Aphid with Respect to its Adaptation to Tobacco1

1 January 1962

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Vol. 55 (1) , 42-46
https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/55.1.42

Abstract

An explanation for the ability of the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulz.), to adapt to a plant capable of nicotine biosynthesis has not been resolved experimentally. The work reported offers chemical, radiometric, and histological evidence which suggests that the aphid is able to subsist on tobacco because it feeds in the phloem and avoids the nicotine-containing xylem.

Keywords

ADAPTATION
FEEDING SITES
TOBACCO
PEACH APHID
GREEN PEACH
RESPECT