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. 2015 Dec 18;10(12):e0145660. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145660

Fig 1. Effect of soybean aphid infestation on soybean leaf fatty acid levels.

Fig 1

Soybean plants were infested with the soybean aphid (SBA) in 2008 and 2009. Leaves were collected six weeks after SBA infestation and fatty acid composition was analyzed. The “SBA:UNL” treatment corresponds to plants in which the aphid population was allowed to grow freely. In the “SBA: 250” treatment, plants were treated with insecticide when they reached the 250 aphids plant-1, as per IPM recommendations (see Material and Methods for details). Control plants were kept free of aphids throughout the whole experiment. Different letters indicate statistically significant differences (p< 0.05) among treatments.