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To evaluate whether genetic variability and phenotypic plasticity drive host plant adaptation to sugar beets and potatoes in field populations of the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae).

June 1, 1985Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Genetic variability in host plant adaptation of the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae

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To evaluate whether genetic variability and phenotypic plasticity drive host plant adaptation to sugar beets and potatoes in field populations of the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae).
Sampled and analyzed over 1,000 Myzus persicae clones collected from various host plants in field conditions across 1980, 1981, and 1982.
Evaluated clone-specific adaptation levels and host plant choice behaviors toward sugar beets and potatoes in apterous adults.
Clones exhibited wide, continuously distributed genetic variability in their adaptation to both sugar beets and potatoes.
Adaptation to sugar beets and adaptation to potatoes were inherited independently from each other.
Host plant performance traits showed no correlation with the host plant preference behavior of apterous adults.

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Field clone analysis uncovers wide genetic variability in host plant adaptation in green peach aphids, indicating independent inheritance of crop-specific traits.

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G. Weber (1985) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1d7bdb266863fda62f5a51 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1570-7458.1985.tb03497.x

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Field clone analysis uncovers wide genetic variability in host plant adaptation in green peach aphids, indicating independent inheritance of crop-specific traits.

Genetic variability in host plant adaptation of the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae

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