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research article

Two varieties of soybeans tolerant of spider mites

authors

Elmer C. Carlson, University of California

publication information

California Agriculture 23(6):15-15. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v023n06p15. June 1969.

author affiliations

Elmer C. Carlson is Specialist, Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis.

abstract

Soybean materials that showed most tolerance to the two-spotted mite, Tetranychus urticae K., in greenhouse tests were USDA Plant Introduction P.I. 88,492 and UC-228.

author notes

John Campbell, Nurseryman and Bill Kester, student, Department of Entomology, U.C., Davis assisted in these studies. Seeds of the varieties and selections tested were obtained from Dr. Benjamin Beard, Oilseed & Industrial Crops Research Branch, A.R.S., Brawley; and Dr. Paul Knowles, Department of Agronomy, U.C., Davis, A part of this research was made possible by funds received from an Oil Seed Crops Research Trust.