Towards Developing a Verde Plant Bug Vector Model

Medrano, Enrique

Towards Developing a Verde Plant Bug Vector Model

Wednesday, January 8, 2014: 9:30 AM

Galerie 1 (New Orleans Marriott)

Enrique Gino Medrano , USDA-ARS

James P Glover , Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Michael Brewer , Texas A&M AgriLife Research

We are developing a model system to determine the vector potential of the Verde plant bug, Creontiades signatus (Hemiptera: Miridae), involvement of boll rot pathogens.