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A brief review is given of the nutritional investigations made over the past twenty years on the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, including the development of a chemically defined diet with a suitable amino acid mixture. The effects of total amino acid concentration on diet and amino acid uptake and growth of A. pisum, as well as the influence of individual amino compounds on phagostimulation are discussed. Correlations are drawn between results on diets and those obtained on pea plants. The concentrations of total soluble amino compounds (some 21 to 24 amino acids and amides), including those of 10 amino acids essential to pea aphid, and of two amides (asparagine and glutamine) are generally twice as high in water extracts of susceptible pea varieties than in those of resistant ones, and two to four times higher in terminal growth (susceptible) than in middle growth (resistant) samples of pea plants. Aphid sap uptake is also higher on susceptible than on resistant varieties. The conclusion remains that, under natural conditions, the establishment of aphid colonies of economic importance on cultivated plants is influenced markedly, among other things, by the nutritional superiority of the host, in which free amino compounds play an important part.
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Auclair, J.L. (1976). Feeding and Nutrition of the Pea Aphid, Acyrthosiphon Pisum (Harris), with Special Reference to Amino Acids. In: Jermy, T. (eds) The Host-Plant in Relation to Insect Behaviour and Reproduction. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4274-8_3
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