ABSTRACT


JORGE VALENZUELA B1 Y CARLYLE W. BENNETT2
 

Feedings habits of Paratanus exitiosus (Beamer), vector of sugar beet yellow wilt virus, wasstudied. It was found that this insect feeds primarly on parenquimatic tissue and that its survival is clase related to feeding on phloem tissues. This feeding habit seems to be related to the low efficiency of this insect as a vector.

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1 Ingeniero Agrónomo, Proyecto Fisiología Vegetal, Estación Experimental La Platina, Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias.
2 Ph. D., Plant Pathologist, Agricultural Research Service, U.S.D.A., Salinas, California