Tuesday, 19 November 2002
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This presentation is part of : Display Presentations, Subsection Ce. Insect Pathology and Microbial Control

Mycosis of the wheat stem sawfly, Cephus cinctus (Hymenoptera: Cephidae), by Fusarium crown rot pathogens

Anna Wenda-Piekik1, William Grey2, Wendell L. Morrill3, and David K. Weaver3. (1) University of Technology and Agriculture, Department of Soil and Plant Cultivation, 20 Kordeckiego Street, Bydgoszcz, Poland, (2) Montana State University, Department of Plant Science and Plant Pathology, Plant Science Building, Bozeman, MT, (3) Montana State University, Department of Entomology, 333 Leon Johnson Hall, Bozeman, MT

Several strains of Fusarium were isolated from sawfly larval cadavers from within wheat plants. These strains produced various levels of larval mortality in the laboratory.

Species 1: Hymenoptera Cephidae Cephus cinctus (wheat stem sawfly)
Keywords: wheat, pathogen

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