Integration of Host Plant Resistance and Insecticides in the Control of Nephotettix virescens (Homoptera: Cicadellidae), a Vector of Rice Tungro Virus
- 31 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 79 (2) , 437-443
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/79.2.437
Abstract
Combined effects of levels of vector resistance and insecticide application in control of rice tungro virus (RTV) were determined in three field tests. Cultivar ‘IR28’, with high levels of resistance to the vector, Nephotettix virescens (Distant), had low RTV infection in all treatments including the untreated check. In moderately resistant ‘IR36’, RTV decreased with an increase in level of insecticide but did not decrease to a level equalling the untreated ‘IR28’. The N. virescens-susceptible cultivar ‘IR22’ had extremely high levels of RTV infection at all insecticide levels. Economic analysis indicated that gross profit and net gain were highest in the N. virescens-resistant ‘IR28’, intermediate in moderately resistant ‘IR36’, and lowest in susceptible ‘IR22’.Keywords
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