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Systemic insecticides: Control of plant feeding pests by poisoning plant juices studied
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California Agriculture 4(11):3-10.
Published November 01, 1950
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Abstract
Systemic insecticides— compounds which can be absorbed readily by plant foliage and roots and subsequently trans-located throughout the plant—render the plant tissues poisonous or unpalatable to juice feeding insect pests.