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CHARACTERIZATION OF EXTRANEOUS PARTICLES LOCATED ON THE LEAF SURFACE OF SEVERAL PLANT SPECIES
Author(s) -
BAKER E. A.,
JEFFREE C. E.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1981.tb01695.x
Subject(s) - trialeurodes , whitefly , botany , biology , characterization (materials science) , plant species , greenhouse whitefly , insect , homoptera , materials science , pest analysis , nanotechnology
SUMMARY Microscopic particles, distributed randomly over the leaf surfaces of several plant species, are identified as artefacts arising from contamination by populations of adult whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporarium). The larger particles are shown to be whitefly eggs contained within a capsule. The smaller particles, in the form of grooved ribbons or coils;, form part of a waxy secretion covering the eggs and the whole surface of the adult insect. The waxy material was composed predominantly of glyceryldioctadecenylhexadecanoate.