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The invasive South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta, continues to spread in Afro-Eurasia and beyond: the new threat to tomato world production

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Antonio Montserrat (Consejería de Agricultura, Región de Murcia) for providing information on costs related to T. absoluta management in Spain, the Plant Health & Environment Department of INRA for funding to ND and TG, and the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria (INIA-CC09-048) for funding to AU.

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  1. French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), 400 Route des Chappes, 06903, Sophia-Antipolis, France

    Nicolas Desneux & Thomas Guillemaud

  2. CEPAVE (CCT-La Plata-CONICET-UNLP), Calle 2 Nro. 584 (1900), La Plata, Argentina

    María G. Luna

  3. Unidad de Entomología, Centro de Protección Vegetal y Biotecnología, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Carretera Moncada-Náquera km 4,5, 46113, Moncada, Valencia, Spain

    Alberto Urbaneja

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Desneux, N., Luna, M.G., Guillemaud, T. et al. The invasive South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta, continues to spread in Afro-Eurasia and beyond: the new threat to tomato world production. J Pest Sci 84, 403–408 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-011-0398-6

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