Transplanting: A Method of Introducing an Insect Virus Into an Ecosystem 2
- 1 April 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 9 (2) , 153-154
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/9.2.153
Abstract
Contamination of seedlings with a formulation containing an entomopathogenic virus at the time of transplanting was found to be a technically feasible method of introducing an insect virus into an agroecosystem. Cabbage so treated with the highly infectious, single-embedded nucleopolyhedrosis virus of the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni (Hübner), maintained a high concentration of the virus thoughout the season. In bioassays, larval mortality on treated plants averaged 97.2% during the 1st-week posttreatment and 95.0% throughout the 84 days of sampling. Larval mortality on untreated plants averaged 4.5% during the 1st-week posttreatment and increased to 89% by 84-day posttreatment due to spread of virus from treated plots.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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