Diapause induction and termination in the small brown planthopper, Laodelphax striatellus (Hemiptera: Delphacidae).

The small brown planthopper, Laodelphax striatellus (Fallén) enters the photoperiodic induction of diapause as 3rd or 4th instar nymphs. The photoperiodic response curves in this planthopper showed a typical long-day response type with a critical daylength of approximately 11 h at 25 °C, 12 h at 22...

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Main Authors: LiuFeng Wang, KeJian Lin, Chao Chen, Shu Fu, FangSen Xue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4154775?pdf=render