Download or read book Electronic Monitoring of Feeding Behavior of Phytophagous True Bugs (Heteroptera) written by Antônio Ricardo Panizzi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles for the first time all the current information on the electronic monitoring of the feeding behavior of phytophagous true bugs. It includes state-of-the-art illustrations of feeding sites on the various plant structures, and examines how the different feeding strategies are related to the variable waveforms generated using the electropenetrography (EPG) technique. Further, the book describes the mouthparts and modes of feeding and discusses the physical and chemical damage resulting from feeding activities. Covering in detail all EPG studies developed and conducted using true bugs published to date, it explores the use of electronic monitoring of feeding coupled with histological analyses to improve strategies to control true bugs, from traditional chemical methods to gene silencing (RNAi).