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THE PERFORMANCE OF BREVICORYNE BRASSICAE AND MYZUS PERSICAE IN RELATION TO PLANT AGE AND LEAF AMINO ACIDS

With increasing plant age, total soluble nitrogen of Brussels sprout plants decreased after a peak at 6–9 weeks. The plants then became less suitable for Brevicoryne brassicae and Myzus persicae (particularly the latter) as shown by estimates of the mean relative growth rate (RGR) of the aphids in two experiments. This growth statistic was, however, only poorly correlated with total soluble N and this lack of correlation was particularly marked on plants less than 9 weeks old. Multiple regression on the leaf amino acid spectrum indicated that much of the variability in aphid RGR could be assigned to relatively few amino acids. The complex of asparagine and glutamine gave a positive coefficient for both aphids, but otherwise different amino acids were involved in the regression for each aphid. Attention is drawn to the presence in each regression of an amino acid with a negative coefficient; the inverse correlation of M. persicae RGR with amino‐butyric acid may be particularly important in the aphid/hostplant relationship.