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Effects of Pepper (Capsicum annuum) Cultivars on the Biology and Life Table Parameters of Myzus persicae (Sulz.) (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

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Green peach aphids, Myzus persicae (Sulz.) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), obtained from pepper fields, were colonized on susceptible pepper plants in a growth chamber. The development, survivorship, and life table parameters of the green peach aphid were evaluated on nine peppers cultivars as follows: Almuden, Bilano, Bird, Cabezo, de la Sierra, Eppo, Jaen, Raza, and Yatasto at controlled conditions (20 ± 1°C; about 70% RH; 14h photophase). The development times of immatures ranged from 6.1 days on Yatasto to 11.4 days on Jaen, whereas immature survival was close to 100% on all cultivars. The intrinsic rate of increase (r m ) for green peach aphid on Bilano and Yatasto were the highest. Jackknife estimates of r m varied from 0.281 to 0.174 females/female/day on Yatasto and Jaen, respectively. The mean population generation times (T) on these hosts ranged from 13.7 to 22.7 days. The highest net reproductive rates (R 0 ) were on Bird and Bilano (63.8 and 62.89 females/female/generation, respectively) and the lowest on De la Sierra and Almuden (34.1 and 38.7, respectively). Because of the high coefficient of determination (R 2) values in Gompertz and Weibul models, survival data from different cultivars had a good fit to both models. The results pointed Jaen, Almuden, and Raza cultivars as the least suitable host plants, indicating that they were the most resistant to M. persicae among the cultivars we tested.

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La Rossa, F.R., Vasicek, A. & López, M.C. Effects of Pepper (Capsicum annuum) Cultivars on the Biology and Life Table Parameters of Myzus persicae (Sulz.) (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Neotrop Entomol 42, 634–641 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-013-0166-9

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