A dietary test of putative deleterious sterols for the aphid Myzus persicae.

The aphid Myzus persicae displays high mortality on tobacco plants bearing a transgene which results in the accumulation of the ketosteroids cholestan-3-one and cholest-4-en-3-one in the phloem sap. To test whether the ketosteroids are the basis of the plant resistance to the aphids, M. persicae wer...

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Main Authors: Sophie Bouvaine, Marie-Line Faure, Robert J Grebenok, Spencer T Behmer, Angela E Douglas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3896478?pdf=render