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Regulation of Phloem Sap Feeding by Aphids

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Regulatory Mechanisms in Insect Feeding

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Aphids are phloem feeders. Before feeding can be started, aphids must reach a food plant and select a probing site on the plant. From here their stylets need to penetrate the phloem in a vascular bundle and select a suitable sieve element to puncture. Host plant specificity is extremely well developed in aphids (Hille Ris Lambers, 1979). This has focused the attention of many entomologists on the possible role in host plant selection of allelochemicals, which make plants so specific (Whittaker and Feeny, 1971). Others were intrigued by the phloem specialization of aphids and the nutritional advantage of the phloem sap composition above other plant parts. This stimulated nutritional studies and the development of artificial diets (Mittler, 1988). Both ideas had been combined earlier in the “dual discrimination” hypothesis for food plant selection by aphids (Kennedy and Booth, 1951).

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    Gerrit de Boer

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Tjallingii, W.F. (1995). Regulation of Phloem Sap Feeding by Aphids. In: Chapman, R.F., de Boer, G. (eds) Regulatory Mechanisms in Insect Feeding. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1775-7_7

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