Citation:

GL Teetes. 1980. Overview of pest management and host plant resistance in U.S. sorghum. Pages 181-223. In: Biology and Breeding for Resistance to Arthropods and Pathogens in Agricultural Plants. MK Harris (editor). The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Texas and University of California, Agency for International Development, Pest Management Project, Berkeley CA USA, 605 pages.

Keywords: Sorghum bicolor, sorghum midge Contarinia sorghicola, greenbug Schizaphis graminum, spider mite Oligonychus, plant breeding, host plant resistance, arthropod pest list, white grubs, wireworms, rootworms, aphids, armyworms, Spodoptera frugiperda, S exigua, stem borers, Diatraea, Ostrinia nubilalis, weevil. Chinch bug, banks grass mite Oligonychus pratensis, sorghum webworm, corn earworm, Heliothis zea, Celama sorghiella, false chinch bug Nysius raphanus, stink bugs, leaffooted bug, stored product pests, Sitophilus oryzae, Sitotroga cerealella, flour beetle Tribolium, resistance screening techniques, insect pest management, natural biocontrol, damage, compensation, chemical control, bait.