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Factors Influencing Wheat Curl Mite Aceria Tosichella Keifer Dispersal, Lindsay M. Overmyer
Factors Influencing Wheat Curl Mite Aceria Tosichella Keifer Dispersal, Lindsay M. Overmyer
Department of Entomology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The wheat curl mite (Aceria tosichella Keifer) (WCM) is a vector of three plant viruses to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) including: Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV), Triticum mosaic virus (TriMV), and High Plains wheat mosaic virus. This wheat-mite-virus complex causes significant yield loss in winter wheat across the Great Plains. Management of WCM host plants during the time between wheat harvest and planting of the new wheat crop (the green bridge) is critical in reducing potential risk and loss from this complex. The primary green bridge host, in the central Great Plains, is volunteer wheat. If volunteer …