Desirable host plant qualities in wild rice (Zizania palustris) for infestation by the rice worm Apamea apamiformis (lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Agriculture & Biology

• Apamea 100%
• Zizania palustris 89%
• wild rice 68%
• Noctuidae 54%
• host plants 41%
• Lepidoptera 41%
• rice 34%
• nitrogen 30%
• sediments 27%
• plant density 15%
• seeds 15%
• phytomass 14%
• plant litter 7%
• carbohydrates 5%
• insects 4%
• glucose 4%
• larvae 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• rice 45%
• nitrogen 30%
• seed 25%
• rate 16%
• sediment 14%
• litter 13%
• biomass 9%
• carbohydrate 7%
• larva 6%
• insect 6%
• glucose 6%
• effect 1%