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Testing Nicotine Tolerance in Aphids Using an Artificial Diet Experiment

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The green peach aphid on tobacco in the Dominican Republic

E G BEINHART

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |December 26, 1952
    PubMed
    Abstract

    No abstract available in PubMed .

    Keywords:
    INSECTSTOBACCO

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