Relationship between leaf waxiness and thrips population in garlic

Published 1996-12-01

Authors

  • Ademar Pereira de Oliveira
    Centro de Ciências Agrárias da UFPB
  • Paulo Donato Castelane
    Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias da UNESP

Abstract

Virtually no research has been done on leaf waxiness in garlic and its relationship with thrips incidence. Therefore, given this fact, the present work was carried out with the objective of verifying the existence or not of this relationship. The thrips population is related to the epicuticular wax content in garlic leaves, because the greater the amount of wax in the leaves of a garlic cultivar, the greater the thrips population.

Author Biographies

  • Ademar Pereira de Oliveira

    eng. agr., doutor em Agronomia, professor adjunto do Centro de Ciências Agrárias da UFPB, Departamento de Fitotecnia - CCA/UFPB. 

     

    • Paulo Donato Castelane

      eng. agr., professor adjunto da Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias da UNESP, Campus
      de Jaboticabal, SP.

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      Keywords

      • physiology
      • resistance cultivars