Relative performance on test and target plants in laboratory tests predicts the risk of non-target attack in the field for arthropod weed biocontrol agents.
Paynter, Q.E
,
Fowler, S.V
,
Gourlay, A.H
,
Peterson, P.G
,
Smith, L.A
,
Winks, C.J
2015
We tested the hypothesis that quantifying the relative performance of candidate weed biocontrol agents on test and target plants during laboratory host-range testing can predict the probability of test plants being attacked in the field. For arthropo