Optimum Spraying Time and Management Guidelines for Soybean Aphid Control - He, Fugang; Yan, Fanyyue; Xin, Wanmin; Lii, Xiaoping; Wang, Yanqin; Zhang, Guangxue (My University, 2017)
In Liaoning Province, the population of soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Matsumura, increases the most rapidly in late June, which is the critical period for aphid control. The current guideline for spraying is 10,000 aphids per100 plants. This guideline may be relaxed to 23,800 - 40,700 for cultivar Tiefeng #18 and to 26,500 – 33,000 for cultivar Liaodou #3 in the plains region found in the middle and lower reaches of Liaohe River. It is difficult to use aphid numbers as a management guideline in agricultural practice. According to our studies, the ratio of infested plants with rolled leaves is closely correlated to the aphid number per 100 plants. The linear regression equation is ? = 4.283 + 1.8419x (r = 0.90), where ? is the rolled leaf ratio and x is the aphid numbers per 100 plants. Therefore, instead of aphid numbers per 100 plants, we propose to use the ratio of plants with rolled leaves as the management guideline for large-scale field control of soybean aphids, which is 10% for Tiefeng #18 and 8% for Liaodou #3.
Originating text in Chinese.
Citation: He, Fugang, Yan, Fanyyue, Xin, Wanmin, Lii, Xiaoping, Wang, Yanqin, Zhang, Guangxue. (1991). Optimum Spraying Time and Management Guidelines for Soybean Aphid Control. Acta Phytophylacica Sinica, 18(2), 155-159.
Keywords: Soybean aphid; Optimum spraying time; Economic threshold