- Title
- Metabolite mobilization in the stem galls of Parthenium hysterophorus induced by Epiblema strenuana inferred from the signatures of isotopic carbon and nitrogen and concentrations of total non-structural carbohydrates
- Creator
- Florentine, Singarayer; Raman, Anantanarayanan; Dhileepan, Kunjithapatham; Madhaven, S.
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/56858
- Identifier
- vital:299
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1570-7458.2006.00403.x
- Identifier
- ISSN:0013-8703
- Abstract
- Parthenium hysterophorus L. (Asteraceae) is a weed of national significance in Australia. Among the several arthropod agents introduced into Australia to control populations of P. hysterophorus biologically, Epiblema strenuana Walker (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) is the most widespread and abundant agent. By intercepting the normal transport mechanisms of P. hysterophorus, the larvae of E. strenuana drain nutrients, other metabolic products, and energy, and place the host plant under intense metabolic stress. In this study, determinations of total non-structural carbohydrates (TNC) levels and carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of fixed products in different parts of the plant tissue, including the gall, have been made to establish the function of gall as a sink for the nutrients Values of; C1
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Relation
- Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata Vol. 119, no. (2006), p. 101-107
- Rights
- Copyright The Authors
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 0608 Zoology; Gall induction; Source-sink relationships; Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopic measurements; Assay; Lepidoptera; Tortricidae; Asteraceae
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