Significance of phytohormones in Siberian larch-bud gall midge interaction

Rida M. Matrenina

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Significance of phytohormones in Siberian larch-bud gall midge interaction

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Authors:

Rida M. Matrenina

Year:

1991

Type:

Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 288-290.

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Abstract

Interrelations of the bud gall midge and the Siberian larch are of scientific and practical interest because of the bud gall midge's role as a plant endoparasite. We know that attack by the gall midge sets off a reaction in the entire plant. Invasion by the insect results in a certain interaction between physiological mechanisms of the insect and the plant which leads to a complex range of interdependent shifts in the metabolism of the tree, the final result depending on the character of those shifts. The reactions of both the plant and the insect are determined both by genetic factors and by environmental conditions.

Parent Publication

Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees

Citation

Matrenina, Rida M. 1991. Significance of phytohormones in Siberian larch-bud gall midge interaction. In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 288-290.