Seedcom maggot

Ishikawa, Y., Kubota, T., 1991. Effect of host plant and dietary quercetin on antioxidant enzymes in onion and seedcom maggots, Delia antigua and D. platura (Diptera Anthomyiidae). Appl. Entomol. Zool. 26 (2), 245-253. 

Larvae of the seedcom maggot, Hylemya platura, damage certain crop species by feeding on the cotyledons and plumules. It has been assumed that the stimulus for oviposition was provided by the germinating seeds. However, Eckenrode et al. 431) found that significantly fewer eggs... 

Eckenrode, C. J., G. E. Harman, and D. R. Webb Seed-borne microorganisms stimulate seedcom maggot egg laying. Nature 256, 487—488 (1975). 

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